A tower series developed through AI-driven workflows, exploring how synthetic design processes generate new architectural languages and how AI-shaped systems evolve across iterations. Developed by KANS with Sandra Baggerman, Stella Zhang, Bosco Yeung and Kazu Kaneko. Over 250,000 visitors.

Coverage:

Hong Kong's AI-Driven Future and Human Past — South China Morning Post, Dec 2025

Exporting Aesthetics: AI Futures — Parametric Architecture, Jan 2026

南方都市报 / N视频 — Nanfang Media Group, Jan 2026

明周文化 — Ming Pao Weekly, Jan 2026

First AI-focused architecture courses in the department — undergraduate and graduate studios on concept-driven design, AI integration and workflow-based development, from first idea formation to coherent architectural systems.

Previously: design studios at TU Delft, lecture series at CU Boulder, and a research program with INVISION (Wuhan) on revitalizing China's urban voids.

Studio work featured in:

Designing for Disappearance: SCAD on Smith Island — PAACADEMY, Jul 2025

China's Urban Voids as Catalysts — Parametric Architecture, Nov 2024

AI in the Wild — Taubman College, University of Michigan, 2026

AI + Design Thinking Symposium — University of Maryland, Nov 2024

The Aesthetic Agenda of AI — Syracuse University roundtable, 2024

Stable Diffusion in Architecture — PAACADEMY workshop, 2024

How MVRDV Is Using AI — Show It Better, 2024

Inside MVRDV's Design Philosophy — Beyond Interior Design podcast, Mar 2024

KANS — AAL Innovation, MICS #7, 2026

Competition-winning core of Universiade New Town: a stack of shaded, plant-covered plates holding a theatre, library, museum and retail — a three-dimensional park built with the climate, not against it. On site.

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Geology-inspired trio of towers in the Zuidas with cantilevered apartments and a publicly accessible green valley. Named world's best new skyscraper (Emporis Skyscraper Award) and CTBUH Best Tall Building under 100 m. Developed façade logic, terraced massing and spatial sequencing.

Photo © Ossip van Duivenbode

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Competition entry completing the missing side of Victory Square in Antonín Engel's 1924 Dejvice masterplan — a low-carbon classical "veil" with flexible modern buildings behind it.

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Restoration and transformation of Aldo van Eyck's final work, sheltered by a new 12-storey "landscraper" — a charged in-between space where bridges connect old and new. BREEAM Outstanding.

Photo © Ossip van Duivenbode

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A stepped, grandstand-shaped building with 56 apartments — 44 of them social housing — its planted terraces overlooking the Ketelhuisplein in Eindhoven's former Philips district. Under construction.

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A living, breathing space for healing for survivors of police torture. Developed with CTJC through strategic planning, stakeholder workshops and space planning — for many survivors and family members, the first time anyone had asked what they needed from the new center.

Photo © Sarah Jane Rhee

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