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Idilia

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Idilia

Film
Idilia is a feature film directed by the Sepúlveda brothers and starring Norma Ruiz, Andrew Tarbet, Eva Isanta, and Raúl Prieto. Conceived almost entirely within a single room, the film turns this unique space into the physical, narrative, and emotional core of the story. OHLAB developed the project’s set design, fully designing this interior and also collaborating with visual artist Xim Izquierdo on the construction of the imagined exteriors that appear in the end credits.

Idilia: Set Design

Idilia

Film

Testing the future of living in algorithmic times.

IDILIA is a temporary architectural intervention created within the context of a speculative science fiction feature film. However, its purpose goes beyond the scenographic: the installation functions as an embodied spatial manifesto, projecting the future vision of a fictional foundation operating in a post-algorithmic world.

Idilia

Film

Testing the future of living in algorithmic times.

IDILIA is a temporary architectural intervention created within the context of a speculative science fiction feature film. However, its purpose goes beyond the scenographic: the installation functions as an embodied spatial manifesto, projecting the future vision of a fictional foundation operating in a post-algorithmic world.

All the action of the film takes place in a single room, designed specifically for the project. Every proportion, texture, and material choice responds to a narrative and architectural logic. What is constructed here is not just a functional set, but an ideological space that explores the type of sensitivity, control, and experience that an artificial intelligence could enable or inhibit.
Contrasting with conventional imaginaries of the future—clean, digital, dematerialized—IDILIA proposes an alternative visuality: porous surfaces, recycled materials, tactile geometries. Pressed wool, untreated wood, and warm, imperfect elements deliberately oppose technological sterility. Materiality, far from being neutral, becomes a political stance: the organic versus the algorithmic, the opaque versus the scannable.
The IDILIA room represents the institutional space of a foundation that educates future elites within a context shaped by the misuse of AI. It is an environment designed to preserve human sensitivity amid a hyperprogrammed universe. Here, every spatial decision conveys an ethic: architecture does not impose, it listens; it does not command, it observes. The space functions as an emotional interface, designed to modulate sensory stimuli and create an atmosphere that safeguards human vulnerability against the excess of algorithmic information.

Idilia

Film

Idilia

Film

IDILIA is conceived as a built architectural research project that uses fiction as a disciplinary tool to anticipate urgent debates about the social and cultural role of architecture. Film here functions as an experimental framework, not as an end, allowing future scenarios to be explored spatially and enabling a critical stance on the impact of artificial intelligence on the ways we live, learn, and relate to one another.
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Furthermore, the project incorporates a second level of speculative architecture that appears in the credits: a series of AI-generated institutional structures imagining what the physical headquarters of this organization might look like. These architectures reinforce the discourse established in the domestic space, projecting it onto a public and systemic scale. The domestic and the institutional are thus connected under a single design logic: creating environments where the human does not disappear in the face of the automatic.
IDILIA does not represent the future—it tests it. The intervention functions as a device for architectural thinking, beyond mere set design. Temporary yet precise, sensitive yet built, this space raises an urgent question: what should architecture be in a world where we no longer inhabit alone?
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Idilia

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Idilia

Film

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