I visited the Los Angeles Aqueduct to photograph the site and study its surroundings. Using Google Maps terrain data, I rebuilt the topography and modeled the aqueduct to scale in Blender, then reconstructed key scenes from matching camera angles.
I then placed the model into AI-generated environments to imagine how it might adapt or resonate in radically different contexts. Through this workflow—fieldwork, 3D reconstruction, and AI generation—the aqueduct shifts from fixed infrastructure to a lens on space, ecology, and perception.
This project builds on an earlier zine that explored light, shadow, and the presence of infrastructure at the Donald C. Tillman Water Reclamation Plant. From that starting point, I gradually developed a method of observation, reconstruction, and simulation..
This project reframes a mundane aqueduct through a sequence of simulated landscapes, tracking how infrastructure’s identity shifts as it moves across ecological, political, and speculative terrain. From post-apocalyptic ruins to forests and lunar deserts, each scene shows how context rewrites meaning. Blending AI, photography, and 3D rendering, the work treats architecture as a vessel of cultural memory—destabilized by machine vision and planetary imagination.
