Students will brainstorm and explore potential applications that enable AI generation of meaningful geometry for Architecture and Engineering.
MaCAD Digital Tools for GENERATIVE PLANNING SEMINAR
“The promise of deep learning is to discover rich, hierarchical models that represent probability distributions [and] map a high-dimensional, rich sensory input to a class label” (Ian Goodfellow et all – GANs paper)
While in the previous decades, predictive and discriminative AI became evermore embedded in our daily lives – computer vision is used in most consumer and industrial devices, predictive analysis guides your daily choices, etc. – it is clear that generative AI is the big bet for the upcoming years. As this branch of machine learning is finally reaching the wider public with its hyper accessible interfaces and emotionally triggering results, it’s important to address its potential impact in Architecture, and more generally in the AEC. Even with the limited applicability (2d images), stable diffusion models were responsible for a considerable portion of the visual content posted under the #architecture in 2022.
With equally passionate supporters as critics, these images drew attention to the need for AI methods that solve AEC problems, as well as to the complexity that future AI tools for AEC need to address.
In this course, we will go from studying the fundamentals of the AI paradigm, to learning and applying key generative AI models, to a more in depth study of the concepts pertinent to the application of AI for the generation of sparse 3d objects.
The overarching goal of this course is to brainstorm and explore potential applications that enable AI generation of meaningful geometry for Architecture and Engineering. For this we will investigate topics of data representation, synthetic data generation, and conditional and unconditional models, in an intent to understand the end to end pipeline and parameters that come into play in constructing the optimal model for such problems.
A more expanded discussion on the topic of AI in architecture can be found here.
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Today we have a challenge to reduce our waste. As we know construction is responsible for one third of all waste that is produced annually. That is why it is important to look into reusing the buildings instead of demolishing. The process of giving new life to existing buildings is called «adaptive reuse For this … Read more
What kind of architecture is the most suitable for AI? The architecture of the Superdutch is already reduced to diagrams and blue foam models allowing for brute force prototyping. Ten ideas are created everyday per person on teams of ten people in firms like OMA, JDS, and BIG etc. That’s a hundred ideas per day … Read more
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Embarking on a project set within the bustling cityscape of New York, we aimed to unveil latent development potentials in urban spaces. Bulk, or the capacity for expansion or extension of a structure within the constraints of zoning laws and local regulations, harbors unexplored opportunities. Often, significant development potential lies hidden within existing building envelopes, … Read more
PROBLEM Maximizing energy efficiency and comfort in buildings with strategically designed and placed sun shades for optimal solar heat reduction is becoming crucial in cities especially in arid zones. This raises an important question how can we use new technologies in achieving such goals. ML MODEL SELECTION in 2017 a very interesting model using Image-to-Image … Read more
