PROFESSOR

MATIAS DEL CAMPO

STUDIO

COLLIDER! - DESIGNING A LIBRARY WITH AI

This studio employed Artificial Neural Networks as design method for a library at one of the Experiment Points at CERN’s new Future Circular Collider. CERN is the leading laboratory for particle physics in the world, operating the famous LHC, the Large Hadron Collider. Located in the suburbs of Geneva, Switzerland, the underground LHC is the largest and most complex machine ever built by humanity.

Crashing Hydrogen protons at near light speed reveal subatomic particles that help physicist solve fundamental questions such as “are there extra dimensions?”, “what happened at the beginning of time?” and “what is dark matter?”.

The project in this studio will tackle the next step in the expansion of CERN with the Future Circular Collider (FCC), a new circular collider running under the alps and lake Geneva with 62 miles of circumference. An experimental point is a location along the ring that houses the large underground detectors that are able to record the crashes with minute precision. On the ground level a complex infrastructure is necessary to maintain the ongoing experiments. Using Artificial Neural Networks, harnessing the power of Big Data, the main task of this studio is in discovering a method to blend landscape and experiment point. Exploring the long tradition of the role of architecture in the alpine setting, ideas of the sublime, and methods of camouflage the studio provides ample opportunity to discuss the efficacy and role of AI in a contemporary setting of architecture design.

︎︎︎BACK ︎

JULIA MCMORROUGH

Elliot Smithberger

Ruiying Zhang

MATIAS DEL CAMPO

Dowdle, Ibrahim, Zhang Fahmy, Kamhawi, Pandey

IAN DONALDSON

Gort-Cabeza de Vaca
Anahita Mojahed

DAWN GILPIN

Sang Won Kang
Xin Li

PETER HALQUIST

Chung-Han (Joanne)

Chengdai Yang

PERRY KULPER

Ghassan Alserayhi
Eilís Finnegan

ANN LUI

Will Kirsch
Kendra Soler

STEVEN MANKOUCHE

Stephen Corcoran
Aric Reed

NEAL ROBINSON

Connor Tuthill

Eduardo Villamor

JON RULE

Richard Hua
Qianwei Zhang

CHRISTIAN UNVERZAGT

Siyuan (Elaine) Cheng
Vance Smith Jr

KATHY VELIKOV

Emma Powers
Brian Smith

STUDENT WORK

RYAN DOWDEL,
DIYA IBRAHIM,
SICONG ZHANG

“THE CHALET AT USILLON”

The Chalet at Usillon takes inspiration from the existing visual lexicon of the alps region as well as the subterranean burial mounds of antiquity. These two influences can be seen in the chalet form of the external research facility, and the hidden facets of the subterranean museum, library, and cafe structures. The research facility was designed to blend into the rockface behind, and the other programmatic elements remain undetectable from the surrounding region. Visitors begin at the public facing museum before entering the shared library and cafe spaces where they intermingle with cern staff, ending at the experiment's access chasm.