Sym[BIO]scape

Sym[BIO]scape is a bio-based design research project that aims to terraform the Earth based symbiotic and agent-based growth strategies. In the era of post-Anthropocene where technology and artificial intelligence compute, condition and construct our world, non-human architecture and unmanned factories are constantly occupying the rural areas and countryside. These machine landscapes emerge together with land degradation and the loss of vernacularity and architectural context. The project Sym[BIO]scape puts forward a manifesto towards the evolution of landscape infrastructure not only for land restoration and sustainable material production, but one that establishes a symbiotic system with the environment through energy harvesting and transformation, along with landscape reshaping and terraforming.

The project Sym[BIO]scape creates a machine landscape that is no longer human-centric, questioning the definition of architecture for hundreds of years: architecture is no longer a living space, but becomes an extension of human life as a data center and a new typology of ecological infrastructure.