UNIVER[CITY] OF AGGRE[GATES]
The [CPU]Ai Atelier speculates on the university campus as a post-normal urban system, using computation, systems thinking and architectural intelligence to respond to social, technological and environmental change. The brief asks architecture to move beyond static form-making and engage with complexity, emergence and adaptation as tools for imagining future forms of learning, living and urban life.
The Univer[city] of Aggre[gates] proposes a dystopian student accommodation megastructure responding to rising rents and the erosion of digital and bodily privacy. Using Weaire–Phelan aggregation, Metabolist plug-in logic and a 500-metre steel-and-concrete superstructure, the project imagines free housing exchanged for bionic experimentation, turning affordability, consent and transhumanism into one provocative architectural system for Manchester’s future university city.
