The project takes part of its name from the ubiquitous white stackable plastic ‘Monobloc’ chair. It is therefore a critique on the form, function, process, and materiality of modern designs. These 8 chair modules are generated directly in 3D with an in-house fine-tuned text-to-3D AI model (i.e., a generative deep neural network) and fabricated with upcycled teak charred black. Their AI-hallucinated multi-perspectival seating affordances collectively influence circulation, views, and gathering within a space, making it an enhanced placemaking artefact. This is among the earliest GenAI built work in the world that applied novel research from the laboratory as placemaking artefacts. It has not only been exhibited at premium Creative AI exhibitions (e.g., NeurIPS2024 and CVPR2024), but also computer-aided architectural design conferences or design biennale around the world (e.g., ACADIA2024, CAADRIA2024 and Singapore Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale 2025). It has also wond other awards, such as the German Design Award 2026, Singapore Good Design (SG Mark) 2025, Kyoto Global Design Awards, International Design Awards- 2024 (IDA), and World Architecture Festival (WAF) 2024.
Other prizes The project has won the Golden Pin Concept Design 2025, European Product Design Award 2025, WAFX Prize at the World Architecture Festival (WAF) 2025, and exhibited at the Singapore Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025.
