COSMIC INTELLIGENCE

DISCRETE SPATIAL COGNITION AND COLLABORATIVE DESIGN FUTURES

INTERATIVE & COLLABORATIVE TOOLS

CROSS-SCALE ARCHITECTURE

CROSS-SCALE ARCHITECTURE

CROSS-SCALE ARCHITECTURE

GENERATIVE SPATIAL STRATEGIES

GENERATIVE SPATIAL STRATEGIES

GENERATIVE SPATIAL STRATEGIES

Institution

Location

New York, NY

Date

2025

Team

Yunhao Zhong （Personal Research and Development）

Original Exhibition Team

Original Exhibition Credits

Post-Exhibition Development

Acknowledgments

Emergent Intelligence from Simple Spatial Rules

What if buildings could learn just by watching how people use them? This Unity platform explores this question through seven geometric shapes: cubes, pyramids, spheres, stars, and others, each with simple personalities. Blue shapes drift peacefully like slow thoughts. Yellow ones explode with sudden energy bursts. Green forms flow and leave trails, creating digital pathways. The fascinating part isn't individual behaviors, but what happens when they interact. Click a blue shape, and nearby blues respond with gentle floating motions while different colors react uniquely. These basic interactions accumulate, creating patterns nobody programmed directly. It's like watching organic city development: no master planner decides placement, but individual decisions create something greater than the sum of parts. Future buildings might develop intelligence through simple rules allowing natural complexity emergence.


Behavioral Languages Through Color and Movement

Colors carry meaning. We know blue feels calm while red feels energetic, but what if buildings spoke this emotional language fluently? The platform transforms this intuition into a working system where each color triggers natural spatial behaviors. Want peace? Click blue elements and watch them drift slowly, creating meditative atmospheres. Need brainstorming energy? Yellow shapes burst outward with infectious enthusiasm. Seeking growth? Cyan forms multiply and spread with organic vitality. These aren't random associations: they tap into how humans naturally connect colors with feelings and movements. People use this system like conducting spatial orchestras, mixing colors to create needed environments. Parents might use gentle blues and greens for calming children's bedtime spaces, while team leaders combine yellows and oranges to energize meeting rooms. Everyone understands this language intuitively, regardless of cultural background. Future buildings could adopt similar systems.

Collaborative Design Through Multi-Selection and Evolution

Real spaces serve groups, not just individuals. How do you design for families with different preferences, or offices where introverts and extroverts work together? The platform tackles this through an elegant collaborative selection system. Multiple people hold Shift and click to select shapes simultaneously, creating pulsing connection networks visualizing combined choices. When groups press spacebar together, magic happens. If everyone chose same colors, the system creates synchronized waves filling entire spaces: perfect for unified team goals. Different color selections result in spectacular diverse activity explosions, each shape performing unique dances: ideal for creative sessions valuing different perspectives. Mixed selections create complex patterns balancing everyone's preferences. The system mediates, honoring individual needs while creating group solutions. It's like having an architect instantly understanding everyone's desires, designing spaces making everyone happy. Real time collaborative design could revolutionize shared space thinking.

Location

New York, NY

Date

2025

Team

Yunhao Zhong （Personal Research and Development）

Networked Behaviors Through Chain Reactions

Touch one system part, and everything responds. It's like dropping stones into still water: ripples spread outward, affecting everything encountered. When clicking any shape, it doesn't just move alone. Instead, it sends invisible signals to nearby elements within certain radius. Same color shapes light up with bright connection lines and respond strongly, like old friends immediately understanding each other's moods. Different colored shapes react more subtly, creating interesting hybrid behaviors by blending characteristics. The influence zone starts small but gradually expands as people use the system more, like communities growing stronger over time. This creates living networks where small actions have surprisingly large consequences. Single clicks in corners might eventually influence entire spaces through connected response chains. Buildings designed with this principle could achieve remarkable coordination without complex central control systems. Architecture itself becomes communication networks where components share neighbor information, creating organic coordination emerging from local interactions.

Adaptive Architectural Systems with Learning Memory Capabilities

The most exciting part is watching the system learn. Every interaction leaves traces: preferred colors, engaging combinations, returning patterns. After every ten clicks, the system evolves, expanding influence networks and developing new capabilities based on discovered user preferences. Popular colors earn special status, accessible through E key triggering coordinated movements across entire spaces. It's like watching buildings develop preferences and personality over months and years of use. Imagine office buildings gradually learning perfect lighting for different times, or homes understanding space arrangement for family activities versus quiet personal time. Buildings remember successful configurations and improve at providing them. Hospitals might learn room layouts helping patients heal faster, automatically suggesting arrangements to architects designing new facilities. Schools could discover classroom configurations boosting student engagement, sharing insights with worldwide educators. This isn't just efficiency: it's creating architecture becoming true human activity partners, constantly learning to better support users.

Morphological Transformation Through Six Spatial Modalities

Sometimes you need completely different spaces. The platform handles this through six transformation modes instantly reorganizing everything with number key presses. It's like having architectural Swiss Army knives: one tool becoming six different instruments depending on needs. Nebula mode gathers everything into soft, cloud like clusters perfect for quiet contemplation or intimate conversations. Galaxy mode sets everything spinning in flowing spirals naturally guiding movement and creating dynamic energy: great for parties or collaborative workshops. Particle mode scatters elements randomly, creating exploratory playgrounds ideal for children or brainstorming sessions. Crystalline mode builds sharp, towering structures demanding attention and creating hierarchy: perfect for presentations or formal gatherings. Organic mode weaves everything into natural, flowing patterns feeling comfortable and homey, like spaces designed for living and relaxation. Digital mode locks everything into precise grids supporting focused, systematic work. Transformation is instant and complete, yet systems remember previous states.

Generative Architectural Aesthetics Through Algorithmic Beauty

The most beautiful moments happen when different elements meet and create something neither could achieve alone. A peaceful blue shape drifting near energetic yellow doesn't just follow normal floating patterns: instead, it develops gentle pulsing rhythms combining tranquility with vitality. Purple shapes usually vibrating in place start tracing complex orbital patterns when encountering orange elements, creating mesmerizing spirals expressing both rhythmic pulse and circular flow. These hybrid behaviors emerge spontaneously based on proximity and timing, meaning same basic elements can produce hundreds of unique spatial effects depending on user arrangements. It's like jazz musicians improvising together: each has individual styles, but playing together creates music exceeding individual contribution sums. This principle could transform building design thinking. Instead of specifying every advance detail, architects might focus on creating components interacting creatively, allowing buildings to develop rich, surprising behaviors through use.

Project Catagory

INTERATIVE & COLLABORATIVE TOOLS

Institution

Date

Location

New York, NY

Team

Yunhao Zhong （Personal Research and Development）

Critic

Recognition

Revolutionary Spatial Typologies Beyond Traditional Boundaries

The platform challenges fundamental assumptions about architectural categories and spatial organization. Traditional buildings are classified as offices, homes, schools, or hospitals, each with fixed programs and static layouts. But what if architecture could transcend these rigid boundaries? Through its transformation capabilities, the system demonstrates spaces that fluidly shift between multiple typologies within the same physical envelope. A single environment might function as contemplative meditation space in the morning (Nebula mode), transform into dynamic collaborative workspace during the day (Galaxy mode), and become intimate social gathering place in the evening (Organic mode). This suggests architectural futures where spaces adapt their fundamental character rather than forcing human activities to conform to predetermined spatial containers. Buildings might develop new hybrid typologies that combine domestic intimacy with office productivity, educational exploration with healing environments, or cultural expression with commercial activity. The platform points toward architecture that serves multiple constituencies simultaneously while maintaining spatial coherence through underlying intelligent systems.

Global Architectural Networks Through Collective Spatial Intelligence

The biggest dream reaches far beyond single buildings. What if every intelligent building worldwide could share learning with every other intelligent building? The system demonstrates this by remembering user preferences and successful patterns, making knowledge available for future experience improvements. Scale this globally, and you get something revolutionary: planetary architectural intelligence networks. Children's hospitals in Brazil discovering certain lighting rhythms help young patients sleep better, and within minutes, pediatric wards worldwide access that knowledge. Singapore office towers develop ventilation patterns boosting worker productivity, and similar Asian buildings begin adopting techniques. Detroit community centers learn space arrangement encouraging neighborhood interaction, and community centers everywhere benefit from insights. Networks wouldn't just share successful solutions: they'd preserve local context wisdom, ensuring global knowledge respects cultural differences and regional needs. This isn't science fiction. We already have building connection technology. We're exploring meaningful connection creation, building worlds where architecture gets collectively smarter.