There is an architecture that exists beyond the ground—one that is suspended, entangled, and radically assembled from fragments of the past. But what happens when these fragments are not just structural remnants, but carriers of memory, layered with histories of use, abandonment, and transformation? If the ground has long been a contested site—marked by power, division, and resource consumption—what spatial possibilities emerge when architecture rejects its fixity? As material scarcity accelerates and the climate crisis renders traditional modes of construction untenable, how can architecture move beyond the logic of infill and repair toward a paradigm of computational assemblage offering a new spatial language and typology when it comes to adaptive reuse? What if reuse is no longer an act of preservation, but a generative method—one that algorithmically recombines architectural debris into new, hyper-connected spatial formations? And how might this method challenge the way we perceive permanence, enclosure, and form?
Thus, how can computational assemblage redefine architectural space by rejecting the ground plane, transforming found fragments into hyper-connected, suspended formations that challenge conventional power structures, material permanence, and memory?