Surrogate Part 2 Project 2025 Alejandro Del Castillo Architectural Association London | UK Surrogate explores the implications of spatial technologies that not only reflect but actively reshape our affective dependencies. As loneliness becomes increasingly systemic and care ever more mediated, the project asks: How might architecture reinforce or reimagine the conditions of care?Conceived as a home adaptation system, Surrogate is not designed to shelter, but to replicate and respond to the body. Drawing from prosthetic technologies, it reimagines the domestic sphere not as a space of withdrawal, but as an interface of support. Neither purely technological nor entirely human, Surrogate exists in tension — between care and its simulation, between collective infrastructure and synthetic intimacy.Rather than proposing a solution, Surrogate provokes. It invites discomfort, reflection, and speculation. And asks: What role does architecture play when presence is simulated? When care becomes interface?Through speculative design, Surrogate challenges how we think about care and intimacy in increasingly mediated environments; raising urgent questions about the architectures we rely on, and those we might come to desire. Tutor(s)