Zaha Hadid Architects joined the delegation representing Odesa, Ukraine at the 171st General Assembly of the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) in Paris to present the ODESA EXPO 2030 bid proposal.
Project name
ODESA EXPO 2030
Architecture firm
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA)
Principal architect
ZHA Project Director: Manuela Gatto. ZHA Project Associate: Yevgeniya Pozigun. ZHA Project Leads: Thomas Bagnoli
Design team
Ghanem Younes, Yun Yu Huang, Malek Pierre Arif, Zixin Ye, Catherine McCann, Jose Pareja-Gomez, Delyan Georgiev, Bowen Miao, Vera Kichanova, Yaniv Hatiel
Collaborators
Landscape Design: West 8. Sustainability: Atelier Ten. Urban Planning: Public Urbanism Personal Architecture
Visualization
MIR, NORVISKA, JK Lab Architects, Zaha Hadid Architects, Beehive (Animation), Morean GmbH (Multimedia & Animation)
Client
NGO 'Civic Council of the EXPO 2030 Odesa'
Typology
Cultural › Exhibition, Pavilion
Introducing the world’s first vertical resort. Aera will capture every resort amenity in a way that is entirely new; it will embody the same unplugged escape that one finds on a private island without leaving a city’s epicenter—marrying relaxation, convenience and connectedness.
Typology
Hospitality › Resort
Block Chain Building is a concept based on the correlation of different technologies, a project that is based on the idea of regeneration through new technologies combined with natural fibers through the growth of programmed plants to be able to regenerate and grow in spaces, also achieving the reconstruction of the same.
Project name
Block Chain Building
Architecture firm
Veliz Arquitecto
Tools used
SketchUp, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Jorge Luis Veliz Quintana
Design team
Jorge Luis Veliz Quintana
Visualization
Veliz Arquitecto
Typology
Future Architecture
Mohammad Qasim Iqbal: Continuing my explorations through Midjourney, I decided to imprint the fabric features onto the villa typology. The prompt used “Palladian Villas” as a key term, as I wanted the artificial intelligence to pick up on the strong renaissance style of those Villas.
Student
Mohammad Qasim Iqbal
University
Nottingham Trent University
Project name
Silk and Stone Villa’s
Typology
Future Architecture
The Nautilus Eco-Resort project is a pioneering, eco-tourism complex designed to unite the knowledge of the scientific community with the willingness of eco-tourists to optimize the revitalization and protection of a degraded ecosystem such as in the Philippines.
Project name
Nautilus Eco-Resort
Architecture firm
Vincent Callebaut Architectures
Location
Palawan, Philippines
Principal architect
Vincent Callebaut
Status
Schematic Design Phase
Typology
Hospitality › Mixed-Use Development
Another Midjourney exploration, this is an extension to the Silk & Stone series but this time I mixed my prompts with both Renaissance and Baroque style qualities. In addition, I generalised the silk draping to a more generic approach of any fabric, this was in hope that the AI would then treat the fabric in any direction and manner it saw fit rath...
Student
Mohammad Qasim Iqbal
University
Nottingham Trent University
Project name
Imagine the "Blurred Zone"
Typology
Future Architecture
With artificial intelligence, how will you act against intercultural development? Will there be tacitly reserved rights? What will happen to intellectual property? Will it give less or more value to NFTs? How will misinformation be dealt with? Design from non-design?
Project name
Ai Experimental Archangel Laboratory
Architecture firm
Studio Kevin Abanto
Tools used
Midjourney, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Kevin Abanto
Visualization
Kevin Abanto
Typology
Future Architetture
The current global creative scene is in an ongoing debate about artistic authenticity and ownership. However, I find a great freedom in using Ai text to image generators. The new tools are providing a medium of freedom. Freedom from physicality, from functionality and from modules.
Project name
Feather Architecture
Architecture firm
Hassan Ragab
Principal architect
Hassan Ragab
Visualization
Hassan Ragab
Typology
Future Architecture