During the second year of the Master in AI for Architecture & the Built Environment students have the opportunity of working hand in hand with a series of renowned experts and industry partners in various fields, to develop an in-depth individual research agenda. Students propose a thesis project, to be developed throughout the year, and are allocated with an Individual Thesis Advisor, Technical Advisor, Business Development and Industry Advisor. During the second year of the program, the curriculum of the program gives students the chance to either participate in an accelerator program or embark on a paid internship with renowned architectural and urban design offices around the world that collaborate with the programme. This experience enables students to apply their newfound expertise in real-world settings, contributing to impactful projects, establishing strong future career possibilities and expanding their professional networks.
Course: MaAI01 25/26 Research Projects Studio
This research studio trains AEC students to design, prototype and pilot AI-driven products for city-scale problems.
Curbside Intensification
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 Behavior
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
Urban Safety Perception Among Women and Gender- Diverse People
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
A Systematic Review of Toronto Architectural Heritage Register
Applying CLIP vector embeddings to defensibly evaluate the architectural value of heritage-listed buildings Project Summary Project Presentation
Motion Pixels
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
