Research explores the origins of architectural form and how the effect of novelty in the context of architecture is created. By taking as a base an idea of a philosopher Boris Groys about The New and translating it into the discipline of architecture, research is testing a hypothesis, that novelty in architecture emerges on the border of the architectural ‘archive’ and the world of objects existing outside of it. Manipulating objects from outside of the discipline into interacting with the architectural ‘archive’ and putting them into the context of architecture could potentially lead to the generation of the new.

Research employs several techniques of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to explore the phenomenon of novelty and appropriation. It implies an attempt to extract from the history of appropriation an understanding of appropriation as a whole and use it for creation of new forms of architecture. The research is giving equal weight and importance to both computer science and humanity and, therefore, bridging the gap between them.