If painting and music can deeply convey the emotions of their creators, then architecture, one of the oldest of the arts, should have the potential to do the same. Sree Vandana Bendalam, Ruimin Du, and I, Students in Performance + Computation Studio, run by Professor Yun Kyu Yi, use today's rapidly emerging artificial intelligence as a tool to attempt to express abstract emotions as accurately as possible in the language of architecture and to communicate them to everyone who views or walks into it.

We used Morphcast's powerful facial capture capabilities to record human micro-expressions to discover the human emotions generated by some specific architectural features. For example, we use parametric modeling techniques such as Grasshopper to enable the application of architectural features that contain a particular emotion to reality. We also designed a purely mechanical passive gravity sensing device to freely control the façade of the building to stimulate specific feelings through the power of light and sight relations.

We tried to find an obscure, abstract form of expression. It is a new architectural language but is universal so that it can be transmitted among any group of people and thus inspire human empathy.