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AI PARK Trailer
AI PARK is an artificial intelligence city pilot zone built by TERMINUS GROUP. As the "prologue" of AI CITY, AI PARK is an experimental base for future urban experience, R&D testing, and human-robot interaction.
△ AI PARK embedded in the landscape of the earth
△ Body staggering combined with terrain
△ The chip wall glows brightly
△ Space shared with robots
1/3 . A "chip" embedded in the earth
Located on the shore of Fengming Lake in Chongqing High-tech Zone, AI PARK is made up of a set of metal walls arranged and inserted into the undulating landscape like a "chip".
△ Embedded
△ Integrated wall
These walls integrate robot ramps, hardware equipment, servers, pipeline vents, and support structures. Between walls, the space required for the laboratory can be freely constructed.
△ Night view of the park walking entrance
△ Staggered wall surfaces
△ Robot ramp as an elevation component
△ The side of the wall is a smoke extraction port
△ The color of the reflected light on the surface of the wall
△ Cooling towers, exhaust outlets, etc. are also integrated in the wall
The walls are perpendicular to the waterfront and move according to the terrain. The courtyard and the laboratory are sandwiched between the walls, connected in tandem with each other, and both have a transparent view towards the water.
△ Courtyard between walls
△ The roof stand faces the water
△ Stairs are sandwiched in the yard between the walls
Some laboratories are suspended between two walls
"Chips embedded in the earth" expresses the mission of Tess-Link - the interconnection of all things and the construction of intelligent systems for urban physical space. This is Tessellation's "AI CITY".
This is not just an idea, it has been put into practice.
The TACOS (Terminus Ai City Operating System), developed and debugged in AI PARK, is ai CITY's operating system. It also builds a digital twin of AI PARK, evolving iteratively at the same time.
△ AI PARK control center and TACOS system
△AI PARK hovers over the water in front
△ The back of AI PARK is buried in the terrain
Of course, space intelligence is not a single technology, it depends on the complete ecology of the intelligent software and hardware industry, the innovation of traditional industries such as construction engineering, and even the development of disciplines such as architecture and social management. We as architects will also be involved.
AI PARK is also a progressive and experimental building, with flexible spaces that can be transformed and expanded as needed.
△ The building shape does not emphasize "Gestalt", and is open to future transformation
2/3. Walking with robots
Just as the upright walking of people determines that buildings need stairs, when robots are also co-users of space, how they move will also affect the spatial form of the building.
△ Central hall
△ The robot walks on the side wall of the hall
Robot maneuvering patterns fall into two broad categories: Android and other different forms of machinery. At present, the robot produced by Tessellation is based on the axle chassis, so AI PARK integrates a robot ramp in the wall to ensure that the robot can reach the area of each layer.
△ Robot ramp in the wall
△ All layers of plane robots are reachable
At the entrance of AI PARK, a robot charging station is set up, and various models are docked on standby. Visitors are thus led by robots through the corridor to a courtyard enclosed entrance, as if coming to another time and space. Then walk into AI PARK with the robot to explore.
△ AI Park buildings and park robots are reachable
△ Robot charging platform
△ Charging platform ramp
△Enter the entrance to AI PARK
△AI PARK main entrance courtyard
△ The robot walked through the front corridor of the water courtyard and the audio-visual hall
△The audio-visual hall can be automatically opened to face the water courtyard
△ The expansion of architecture in the future is likely to be driven by man and machine
Designing AI PARKS has also sparked us to think more. The expansion of architecture in the future is likely to be driven by man and machine. In addition to being co-users of space, robots may also influence architecture in another, more drastic way:
That is to be part of the building.
3/3. About buildings, machines, robots
In 1923, Le Corbusier said that "architecture is a living machine" to challenge the old architectural ethics. And the relationship between machines and architecture is far more profound than a "formal style" or "aesthetic preference".
△ Le. Le Corbusier, "Towards a New Building"
△ Architectural form imitating machine style, Lloyds Bank Building, London
△ Cloud engine model
△ Cloud engine construction site
△ The cloud engine under construction integrates a hot and cold source machine
Architecture seems to place more emphasis on cultural places, light and shadow materials, space and artistry, while another gray rhinoceros-like attribute is easily overlooked:
Architecture is the constant integration of technology.
Probably because under the kind shelter of the earth, any kind of house can be used, so the technical iteration of architecture has been very slow. But it never stopped, like a silent snowball.
400 years ago, buildings needed masons and carpenters the most, and chimneys were left near river wells; today it is hard to imagine buildings without air conditioning fresh air systems, elevators, water and sewage, strong and weak electrical networks, fiber optics and wifi. In the future, software-driven physical spaces, robots walking in buildings, robotic building components and other technical applications will be as common as stone grinding, brick firing, reinforced concrete, Low-e glass, and escalators.
△ BIM models of various majors of contemporary architecture
△ Reflects the surrounding green metal wall
△AI PARK local
△ AI PARK water surface reflection
Like architecture, machines are another form of technological integration, and the ultimate in this form is robotics. Although "robot" implies "human attributes", Robot actually refers to various mechanical forms. But like fusion architecture, the fusion of all hardware terminals is not the end of robot development. The shell is waiting for ghosts。
After two generations of development of "programmable" and "perceptible", robots have begun to move towards the third stage - intelligence. Intelligence may be distributed autonomous, like the robot characters in most science fiction movies; it can be cloud-centric; it may be both. It wasn't until it was self-aware that the robots finally walked out of the Garden of Eden like us.
I don't know how long it will take to open this door, and I don't know if it's a darling or a monster behind the door. But in any case, then we will have to face the ultimate soul torture of "what is a man?"
△ Robots as users of buildings
But our vision of the future is always narrow.
Just as in the fifties we thought the future was pipes and gears; in the seventies we thought the future was spherical buildings and button panels; at the beginning of the 21st century we thought the future was a writhing parametric building, or cyberpunk. Maybe the future is not about external forms, and the future always comes quietly in unexpected ways.
The story of architecture and machines, machines and people, has only just begun, and it is far from over.
△ The road between humans and robots is far from the time of the curtain
△ Uncle tai chi in the robot's territory