Grooving Facade

Artists and audience draw simple lines on iPads. A real-time AI grows every line into plants and flowers — and the whole garden blooms across a building facade.

Improvised

Nothing is prepared: whatever people draw that night becomes the garden. The AI strength is a live fader — from pure line to full bloom.

How it works

Three steps, all live — nothing is pre-rendered.

Draw

Artists — and visitors, if you like — draw on iPads in Tagtool. Several iPads can play together on one canvas.

Grow

The drawing streams into TouchDesigner, where a real-time diffusion model turns each line into leaves, stems and blossoms. The strength of the AI is a live fader: from pure line to full garden.

Project

The image is masked and mapped onto the architecture — windows, columns and panels — so the garden grows on the building, not on a flat screen.

The idea

Since 2020 I have been drawing live on projections — behind DJs, on walls, in tree crowns. In 2023 I imagined a forest that a group of artists would grow together, meetup after meetup. Grooving Facade is that forest, grown in real time: the hand gives the gesture, the machine adds the leaves.

The first version premiered on the Plaza building in Rose-Hill, Mauritius, in collaboration with French artist Maxime Touroute.

Flowers grown by AI from live drawing on the Plaza facade, Rose-Hill — Plaza facade, Rose-Hill

A visitor drawing on the iPad during the show — The audience draws too

Formats

Same engine, different scales.

Monumental

Facade show

A building as the canvas, after sunset, 1–4 hours, audience drawing at a station.

Compact

Wall or stage

Indoor wall, stage backdrop or courtyard. One projector, quick setup.

Festival

All-night set

Live drawing woven into a DJ set or a festival night.

Workshop

Grow-meetup

Local artists learn the tools and grow a shared garden that ends in a public show.

For organisers

Surface: A light facade or wall, about 10–30 m wide. Windows and columns welcome — they become part of the drawing.
Projector: 15–20k lumen laser projector with a lens matching the distance (I help calculate it). For smaller walls my own projector can do.
Time: Test session the evening before; show after sunset, 1–4 hours.
On site: Table and power for the control desk, tent or cover against rain, dark surroundings in front of the wall.
I bring: iPads, computer with the AI engine, capture and mapping setup.
Team: On site or remote support.

Calculate your wall

Shown at

11.2026Plaza, Rose-HillPremiere · in collaboration with Maxime Touroute

Credits

Yukukaconcept, live drawing, AI engine

Maxime Touroutecollaboration, projection mapping