Autonomous City II

Photo Series of Models and Drawings

Preparation for Exhibition in Farrell Teaching & Learning Center Exhibition Space, School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, March, 2021

Autonomous City II creates a widely variable environment for the study of wide-ranging conditions that could be encountered by autonomous vehicles in urban off-highway scenarios. This serves as a study for a 1:8 scale physical model that will be built in order to perform tests using an F1/10 model autonomous vehicle with a full perceptual stack. The model city will be an immersive environment in which building-form, public space, material characteristics, and atmospheres will be controlled and transform over time, not unlike a film set. The architectural staging of scaled material effects and atmospheres may lead to new, hybrid material systems and digital fabrication strategies. Work will be conducted across software that records real-world environments with software that models digital environments, and compositing digital fabrication tools that shape three-dimensional form with those that apply two-dimensional color and image.