The heated discussions sparked by the pandemic around the boundaries of physical and digital spaces, as well as the emergence of radical positions advocating for the elimination of both, have led to an exploration of possible ways to connect or hybridize the natural and the digital within a shared space. AI technologies, volumetric reconstruction of spaces, and digital modeling also enable the development of new sensitivities around the biological.
Hybridizations is a process of building bridges between physical reality and the digital world, aimed at generating hybrid environments where elements from the physical world gain a new kind of existence allowed by the digital and are then returned to physical experience.
Using various types of plant leaves considered problematic for the city—such as Ficus Benjamina—a process of vegetal decellularization and volumetric reconstruction of digital patterns is carried out, which are later inserted into a virtual space.
For this purpose, I aimed to remove the pigment through chemical processes (decellularization) in order to work with the internal structure of the leaf. The volumetric digital conversion process was carried out using Rhinoceros + Grasshopper. The model is then further developed in Blender.
A virtual space (now obsolete) built from reconstructed leaf models and other elements from the physical environment using photogrammetry.