IAAC’s Master in AI for Architecture & the Built Environment is a unique program oriented towards leading the change in decarbonising human activities and crafting a more sustainable, resilient future urbanisation for our planet. Through an innovative curriculum deeply rooted in AI applications, the program pioneers novel AI-driven solutions that not only respond to the pressing challenges of our time but also set a new standard for environmentally and socially conscious co-design and planning. The Master in AI for Architecture & the Built Environment is training the professionals that city administrations, governments, industries, and communities need, to transform the built environment in the era of digital technologies.
Ertuğrul Akdemir MAAI · Master in AI for Architecture and Business Innovation 25/26 Advisor: Shajay Bhooshan An AI tool that reads how streets behave through the day and tests where the curb could change use, then shows how that change spreads across the city before anything is built. Streets are designed once and rarely questioned. The … Read more
Invest Through Behaviour reframes how capital decisions are made in social housing impact investment. Today, investment decisions rely on high-level financial and ESG indicators that assume impact rather than demonstrate it, and that obscure the real trade-offs between competing priorities. This project proposes a decision-support approach that treats neighbourhoods across London as a landscape of … Read more
AI Reveals Hidden Patterns in Crowdsourced Fears The Problem According to the International Survey on Sexual Harassment in Public Spaces (L’Oréal Paris & Ipsos, 2023), 92% of young women in Spain have experienced street harassment. The same research states that this number is 80% globally. And yet, as Gardner puts it in Passing By: Gender … Read more
Applying CLIP vector embeddings to defensibly evaluate the architectural value of heritage-listed buildings Project Summary Project Presentation
Turning pollution data into planning decisions. TEAM: Martina Simoni , Rim Choufani, Rashi Desadla, Bhavana Priya B INTRODUCTION Kraków’s air quality problem isn’t abstract. It’s measurable, and it’s bad. Over six sessions, our team (Rim, Martina, Rashi, and Bhavana) used the CRISP-DM framework to ask a focused question: can urban form (building density, road networks, … Read more
Mapping out Spatial Intelligence Program: Master in AI for Architecture and the Built Environment (MaAI)Supervisor: Wassim Jabi Motion Pixels is a research project that explores how pedestrian movement can be transformed into spatial intelligence. By combining computer vision, trajectory analysis, behavioral mapping, and machine learning, the project converts video recordings of public spaces into spatial … Read more
A street-level method for predicting and explaining urban heat from surface composition and configuration
In contemporary urban planning, we often focus on the best parts of a city. However, true transformation begins by identifying the most vulnerable areas. We have recently developed a parametric model in Grasshopper to analyse the Gràcia District in Barcelona, utilizing a worst-case scenario routing logic to pinpoint exactly where new Green Axes should be … Read more
Deforestation Raster Map – 2024 The visualization depicts accumulated and annual deforestation patterns in Brazil from 1985 to 2024. The accumulated dataset shows a continuous rise in total deforested areas, reaching over 140 milllion hectares. Annual trends reveal strong fluctuations, with peaks in the late 1980’s and mid-2000’s, followed by decreases and renewed variability in … Read more
How accessible is the city we live in? Beyond iconic landmarks and infrastructure, everyday life is shaped by small but essential places: schools, parks, shops, and services. Urban Amenities Accessibility in Istanbul is a computational design project that explores how these everyday amenities are distributed across Istanbul’s historical center and how easily they can be … Read more
In our final exercise of our Urban Data seminar, we were asked to create an interactive web platform, using the python library Dash. Dash allows users to upload and format datasets to be interactive, easily toggling between different data visuals rather than showing static imagery. In personal experience, our group has noted how applicable this … Read more
Cities are complex systems where accessibility to essential services—such as healthcare—can directly affect quality of life and emergency response outcomes. Traditional urban maps often show where services are located, but they rarely communicate how accessible these services are in real, everyday conditions. The This project explores how computational design tools can be used to analyze … Read more
The aim of the project is to map the sky visibility in New York City as one walks from one public park to another with an added analysis layer of Heat Vulnerability Index (HVI) to neighbourhoods. HVI is an index of the likelihood of someone from a neighbourhood to die due to excessive heat exposure, which … Read more
Throughout the course of Urban Data, we learnt several different ways of handling multiple datasets to finally form a dashboard for the same. In this exercise, we worked using VS Code to create a Dashboard for the comparison of Barcelona’s available rental or buyout housing like what idealista does but the also have it depended … Read more
Pollinators, bees, butterflies, moths, bumblebees, quietly keep our ecosystems alive. They enable flowering plants to reproduce, sustain wild biodiversity, and support much of our food supply. Yet many of these species are in decline worldwide, threatened by habitat loss, chemical use, urban sprawl and climate change. In cities like Barcelona, where green spaces, gardens, parks … Read more
Cloud Based Remote Sensing, Optimization and Agent Based Simulation Floods that were once rare are now happening more often. In Valencia, Spain, a flood expected only once every 500 to 1,000 years has happened three times in the last few decades, with the most recent in October 2024 killing over 230 people and causing €16 … Read more
