The Recombinant Room uses AI to challenge conventional ideas about waste and envision a future of continuous material cycles. Cities, landscapes, buildings, furniture, and components of the built environment destined for demolition are reimagined as valuable resources to be transformed into new construction materials. Using AI as a material research assistant, the project stitches together artificial and biological materials to create new biophilic composites. The core of the installation is a "thinking room" where LiDAR sensors track visitor motion, continuously reconstructing the space and revealing a "machine view" of the world ordered by computer vision, feature classification and segmentation, and AI material insights. This portal into AI logic augments human senses, allowing us to perceive the city and its material life cycles on a much longer, even geologic, timescale. The project urges humanity to consider a more sustainable timeline for cities, framing waste not as an endpoint but as the starting point for a new, imaginative, and multi-generational future.

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