organic free-form tree restaurants grow amid the cityscape using midjourney

Rolando Cedeño de la Cruz reimagines Restaurant design using ai

Drawing from the deep connections of architecture and nature that evoke ‘warmth, strength, home, love, life, and abundance’, designer Rolando Cedeño de la Cruz generates a Midjourney series of visualizations depicting organic structures, the ‘Tree Restaurants’. Through the means of artificial intelligence, the renderings illustrate an architectural language using geometric imitations of trees to form organic facades that wrap the glazed fronts of restaurants in a material that resembles wood. The nature-inspired design derives from the concept of the ‘Tree of Life’ being present in the collective unconscious in many cultures throughout history and reminisces of the abstract form of a forest.

Wood Filigree Tree Restaurant exterior view | all images courtesy of Rolando Cedeño de la Cruz

the digital series acts as a reminder of the value of nature

The project’s objective is to achieve more intimate spaces that break a little from the orthogonal structures of cities and conventional buildings, shares the Chilean designer. The organic language lends itself to making extremely interesting plays of light at night, evoking the primitive sensation of a nocturnal refuge.

The use of glass contrasts the visual reading of the solid elements, while the addition of external furniture creates different environments within the urban context. Commenting on the increasing globalization of architectural concepts, the compulsive mass production, and the loss of cultural identities, the project aims to remind the value of nature and the inherent relationship of humans with it.

the interior view exposes the intricate organic patterns of the form

the main facade reminisces of the abstract form of a forest

the wooden free-form shapes a rooftop above the glass front

like a wooden nest forming on a tree, the restaurant expands over the river channel

the structure displays undulating shapes in cherry wood material

an interior Tree Restaurant corridor creates a passage in front of the dining space

the Tree Restaurants generate different environments within the urban context

the long glass facade is wrapped in carved wood

project info:

name: The Tree Restaurants
designer: Rolando Cedeño de la Cruz | @ai.metaverse.cr