From inspiration to decision-making: what happens when AI enters the design process? Architects Giovanni Sanna and Riccardo Piazzai reflect on the opportunities, risks and new responsibilities emerging as machines begin to participate in creative workflows.
From Singapore to Helsinki, and even to smaller historic cities such as Urbino, digital twins – highly detailed virtual replicas built from real-world data – are helping cities imagine the future without losing sight of the lessons of the past.
Tom Brigden, partner at heritage architecture specialists Purcell Architects, explains how older and abandoned properties can be sustainably adapted and brought back into use, so that all members of the community can enjoy them for years to come.
No other city is more representative of history and memory than Rome. An exhibition seeks out its essence, among artistic imagination and everyday life, socio-economic data and global comparisons. We explore these themes with the curators Ricky Burdett, Paola Viganò and Keti Lelo
In the architectures of the Chinese firm founded by the visionary Ma Yansong, historical elements are placed in dialogue with ultra-contemporary additions. A formula developed in Asia and also experimented in Europe, which Andrea D’Antrassi, associated partner of MAD, illustrates to humus® in this interview.
Mattia Di Carlo, Circular Design Specialist at the GXN research centre, tells humus® how to design buildings with a view to their virtuous reuse and how the city can become a circular infrastructure rather than a deposit of future ruins
With projects running from Paris to Taiwan, the award-winning French landscape architect talks about the correct approach to forests in different places around the world. Design criteria must privilege the context and nature to be effective.
Can forests be welcoming? When humans enter ‘without knocking’, do they breach the balance of nature? We asked Francesco Padovan, architect from Noa, the Bolzano-based firm behind many stylish and sensitive hotel projects set in nature.
The Japanese maestro calls on architecture to recover the relationship between humans and forest: one model is his installation Domino 3.0, presented at the Biennale in Venice, in which felled tree trunks and artificial intelligence work together to create an organic structure.
Over forty years ago, with visionary sensitivity, two Italian architects conducted far-reaching, in-depth research into trees, understood as primary elements in urban and landscape design. humus followed their tracks to find out more about their thoughts and their heritage.
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