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4sight

Insightful Predictions for Your City’s Future. The purpose of Foresight is to leverage the capabilities of machine learning to anticipate the potential effects of novel urban infrastructure on the city’s fabric and the value of city blocks. Foresight aims to serve as a preliminary design tool, with the ability to swiftly process vast amounts of … Read more

Mississippi 2102

Meanders on the Lower Mississippi River In the battle between architecture and nature, nature tends to win. Therefore, it is important that we understand how rivers move over time so that we can know the best and the worst places to build. Our project studies the Lower Mississippi River from Cairo, Illinois to New Orleans, … Read more

Routable

An Urban AI graft project based in Barcelona. In 2022 across both England and Wales the proportion of people that have some form of disability was a staggering 17.8% or nearly 10.4 million people. Our project is focused on urban mobility and aims to create accessibility for current routing applications have limited use for people … Read more

SHADEAWAY

The assignment entailed harnessing the open data portal for the city of Melbourne with the aim to articulate a narrative revolving around data and technology within the cityscape. Our group initiated contact with several individuals possessing firsthand experience of Melbourne, who provided valuable insights steering us away from our preliminary topic of the potential correlation … Read more

MASHRABIYA

ABSTRACT Mashraraya is an essential element of Islamic architecture, and its significance surpasses the aesthetics and symbolism. It serves as more than just a decorative feature, protecting the interior spaces from harsh weather by providing shading and encouraging natural ventilation. It also offers privacy and can be used as a structural element. The project’s objective … Read more

Compath

Problem statement and project objectives How can we create a routing system that orients onto its users environment, utilizing open source data? How do we collect and process data? Our objective is to utilize the existing data and generate any missing data required for each aspect of our analysis.  We combine data from different sources … Read more

Floor Plan Evaluator

Floor Plan Evaluator using graph machine learning Project Workflow Problem definition & objective formulation With the growing pressure on cities available spaces for vertical or horizontal expansion, it’s crucial to make the most efficient use of the available spaces without compromising the space qualities. Conventional work flow of floor plan design is rigid regarding evaluating … Read more

AI SUN SHIELD

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

Perfect Seat

Find the perfect seat in a stadium! Problem Statement How many times have you been to a stadium, sports complex, concert or related events where your seat look much less appealing  than in the sales chart? This raises a very important question, what are the metrics used to define the quality of a seat in … Read more

Broken Telephone

Consciousness Information Shift, Through an AI Chain This concept of sequences explores the intersection of consciousness, artificial intelligence, and the transformation and communication of artistic expressions. Drawing inspiration from the children’s game “broken telephone,” this investigation involves a sequence of artificial intelligence algorithms attempting to interpret and translate various forms of artistic media, thereby assessing … Read more

What makes a park popular?

This research revolves around a urban dilemma. Everyone can think of a park in their city that is very crowded and another one that is always desert. why does this happen? Is it related to the design of the park? Our objective is to Look for a relation into Park Features/Popularity. If there is a … Read more

Adappt

Challenge to solve The potential for a building to adapt to various uses is primarily determined during the initial stages of the design process. This feature is rarely considered by architects yet has a significant impact of a building’s sustainability. The intention is to provide an early-stage tool that architects can use to test adaptability … Read more

ANGELS & DEMONS

CONCEPT The topicality of consciousness in relation to this project lies in the exploration of the human psyche. By assigning angelic and demonic personas to participants based on their personality scores, the project delves into the duality of human nature. It highlights how different aspects of consciousness, can shape one’s choices and actions. Through the … Read more

The Consciousness of Tiredness

A short movie on AI workforce and its labor rights. Consciousness is a very human related state which subtly implies being aware of existing. From futurism movement at the beginning of last century we have been imagining our lives with the extraordinary powers of machines. We thought how our lives would be easier with technology … Read more