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The Nordbahnhof Park, once bisected by the Berlin Wall, remained as no man’s land for decades: a silent witness to division. This project builds on the reactive system to transform the site into a living archive. Sound and motion sensors capture conversations that were never allowed to happen, embedding past memories into the ground. An abandoned railway bridge is reborn as a lush, green pedestrian link, stitching together the park’s divided halves. Hence, Nordbahnhof Park no longer rejects its past but makes history feel accessible. It establishes a form of reconciliation with history, where memory and everyday life coexist gently and continuously.
By reimagining the acts of dwelling, the project aims to imbue a system with agency: a capacity to perceive, respond, and transform. Through sound and movement, the system reacts to a communication and becomes more than a passive observer.
Four East Berliner letters were selected from the BBC archive, then four AI agents, each 'inhabiting' one letter. By analysing tone, style, and content, each agent assumes a persona reflecting its author’s personality.
An exploration of potential movements that might occur within the architecture itself generated by AI, which later influences the building's materiality.
Walk through the letter museum generated from a conversation from the past.