The Galliera Museum of Porticoes presents an architecture of AI co-authorship through forensic scanning of Bologna’s porticoes, the city’s defining framing device. Designed using a customised digital latent space, the project establishes a framework for curating portico fragments and retelling their histories, when agency is shared between the designer’s intention and AI interpretation.

The museum combines exhibition spaces, artefact and film restoration facilities, embedding a catalogue of porticoes throughout its architecture. Their spatial and semantic logics are translated into stone fabrication and texturing strategies, blending vernacular spolia reuse cultures with contemporary construction methods.

The project reinterprets Aldo Rossi’s concept of the architect as a memory bearer by positioning AI as an active participant in architectural remembering. It proposes a novel methodology where city, architect, and machine engage in continuous dialogue, translating collective memory into layered material expressions.

This latent space framework ultimately transforms how we interpret big data, unlocking the ability to synthesise new urban forms across any metropolitan context.