Material Aesthetics Identities

Classifying Model Through Material Training

Coder, Designer & Producer

12.25

Fall 2025

Individual

SCI 6492: Quantitative Aesthetics

Harvard Graduate School of Design

Gallery

Cambridge, MA

Elective

This project explores architectural materiality through the lens of machine perception. By training a model to classify material compositions across different spatial conditions, the project reframes material understanding as a diagrammatic and spatial process rather than a fixed attribute. The resulting forms and organizational systems emerge from the model’s internal logic, revealing how materiality, contrast, and spatial depth are abstracted and reassembled by a non-human perceptual system.


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