Title
Living Architecture : Biophilia
Categories
Installation
Locations
Venice, Italy
Date
10 May 25 - 23 Nov 25

Living Architecture: Biophilia is an AI Data Sculpture that transforms more than 100 million images of Earth’s diverse flora, fauna, and fungi into immersive, hyper-realistic environmental experiences. This installation brings nature to life in a digital realm, allowing visitors to engage with the Earth’s ecosystems in new ways. The project reimagines ecocentric environmentalism by combining the intelligence of nature, humans, and AI. Accounting for these different forms of intelligence is essential in building adaptive architectures and networks that reflect the complexity of natural systems. Nature’s intelligence, with its complex patterns and processes, offers a blueprint for resilience and adaptability. Human intelligence contributes cultural, emotional, and functional understandings of space and place. AI acts as a bridge, processing vast amounts of data to create dynamic, responsive environments that evolve with their ecosystems. This dialogue between intelligences challenges conventional architectural thinking, encouraging us to design structures and networks that are not only functional but also deeply integrated with the environments they inhabit. By blending art, technology, and environmental data, Living Architecture: Biophilia demonstrates how this intersection can help us envision a future where digital innovation informs the creation of sustainable, intelligent ecosystems—both natural and built.

Credits: 

Refik Anadol Studio
Adam Samson
Alex Morozov
Alistair Ramage
Caio Villela
Christian Burke
Cosku Turhan
Dasha Orlova
Dave Hunt
Delaney Kough
Dogukan Yesilcimen
Efe Mert Kaya
Efsun Erkilic
Hye Min Cho
Jennifer Plackemeier
Jules Hyun
Kelian Maissen
Kerim Karaoglu
Kyle McLean
Kyle Thomas Miller
Laura B. Cohen
Linda Berke
Maurizio Braggiotti
Mert Cobanov
Michael Alchermes
Michael Hsiu
Nidhi Parsana
Pelin Kivrak
Seungmin Lee
Simon Burke
Vinicius Harres
Will Young
Xi Wang
Yufan Xie

La Biennale Di Venezia 2025
19th International Architecture Exhibition

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Curated by Carlo Ratti
Technology partner Blackboxx

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Special Thanks to
Dataland
Google
NVIDIA
The Smithsonian

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