Infinitecture
The interplanetary transfer of the humankind memory
What kind of architecture should be on the other planets if we think about human culture spreading beyond Earth? Architecture is a human culture's cast formed during thousands of years. If we want to grasp humankind's biological, social, and psychological properties as sapience species, we can look at its architecture.
Mars rover meet Infinitecture
Use image PIA24937 by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover
Use image PIA24937 by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover
Reflecting about the colonization of Mars or other planets, we have to look at that not only as expanding of human habitat but also as colonization through humankind culture and the representation of human habitat space.
Imagine collecting knowledge about architecture pieces for centuries in one computational model. And something can autonomously materialize that into artifacts on another planet without top-down human control.
We don't know whether humans will get to Mars and other planets. However, we know precisely that firstly robots go. They are our first echelon of settlement; they are our conductors into different worlds; they are our colonists.
Think about a swarm of robots lent on the other planet that can autonomously build epistemological structures narrating stories about human cultures. Then not so important humans will come or not to Mars or other planets. If humans get to some planet, then they will meet cultural layers made by humankind for humankind. However, if humans don't get there, Endlessskyscrapers will become a memorial of humankind's culture.
An autonomous robot swarm constructs an Infinitecture. Building robots grab soil on the ground, bring it to the top, and sinter it to build a structure. Energy robots support them to make infinity cycle.
Infinitecture is an endless tower without a start and end. Levels' geometry is defined by artificial intelligence been trained on architectural planes are taken from many centuries. Each level is not made up by copying existing blueprints from the past but is continually generated by a neural network as an unpredictable new spatial structure. They refer to the united image and reflect the cast of all architecture over time. Generated draws of architectural sections gradually flow from one to another and form layers composing polysemantic shapes. When human colonization comes, people can use them as frameworks for fast adaptation to living. Complex and varied spaces can be finished or rebuilt for necessary functions.
If we assume that we shouldn't emergency settle other planets and this process is extended over time, we can keep all these onto unhurried progression managed by autonomous robots. They can move on a planet using solar energy and continuously layer by layer sinter soil-forming the tower structure. Construction is only constrained by sintered soil strength, local gravity, tower structural stability, and robots' durability. If you are human colonists, you can habitat each unique structure by individual script. If you are an alien mind, you can research each construction as a unique pattern that contains humankind's knowledge and culture.
The slow progression of construction corresponds to the measured course of history, which is determined by centuries and millenniums up to the constant moving of celestial bodies that is infinity in human history scale. No one harries in space. Robots can work still their resource remains. They will build up as many towers as possible, and Infinitecture will stay as long as possible, storing humankind's culture.
Variety of levels of the one of possible tower generation. Each floor is built by combining together sixty drawings that gradually change generated by a neural network.
