Skins act as scripts. Patterns, textures, and rhythms of the animal body are written into the architectural surface, becoming a language of space
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In these spatial maps, architecture behaves like the animal: it stretches, surveys, claims, and retreats. Space becomes an extension of the body, a zone of perception
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Feline Architectures
Skins as Scripts, Tension as Form
Feline Architectures is a series of hybrid architectural visions shaped by the layered, encrypted language of feline skin. These AI-generated forms do not represent the animal — they emerge from it, as if architecture itself were a surface inscribed by stealth, instinct, and sensory memory.
Here, skins become scripts: fur patterns, muscular tension, and the silent syntax of movement are translated into architectural envelopes — not façades, but membranes, veils, hides. Each structure carries the trace of a hidden presence, a spectral feline that moves through it without being seen.
The architecture is not elegant; it is alert, charged, written. The lines curve like spines mid-turn, textures ripple like breath beneath fur, and shadows fold into spaces where time waits. These are places of poised stillness, woven from instinct and vision.
Feline Architectures imagines an architecture of concealment and emergence — where form is both camouflage and revelation, and where artificial imagination becomes the animal’s co-conspirator.
Credits
Type: AI Architecture
Year: 2022-24
Architect: Cesare Battelli
AI Labs: MidJourney. Alter (Chat GPT)
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