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AUTONOMOUS FUTURE

Developed as a part of Washington University in St. Louis architecture program ARCH 312 course, this project was more of a thought experiment envisioning a future where autonomous vehicles replace conventional ones. This project differed greatly from past architecture studio projects and focused more on narrative and architecture as a tool for discussion rather than the development of programs and forms. Our envisioned autonomous future is a city where all streets for cars were moved underground, creating new spaces for public circulation and activity in the spaces where roads once occupied. We then began considering the how these spaces would be used, and of the discussed possibilities, the privatization of the space was seen as the most plausible outcome. In order to achieve the goal of using prospective architecture as a tool for discussion, a short animation was made depicting a possible "dystopian" privatization outcome and a desirable outcome. The animation shows a "simulated" future with exaggerated developments as a narrative tool. The animation was made from scratch predominantly in Blender and composited in Adobe Premier. The scenes are composed of a mix of premade assets and assets made from scratch including certain object models and procedural materials.

AUTONOMOUS FUTURE

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