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From Pixels to Parameters: transforming AI image to editable facade geometry


MaCAD 2024-2025 by
MaCAD 2024-2025

ABSTRACT Recent developments in generative artificial intelligence, particularly diffusion models such as Stable Diffusion and DALL·E, have enabled the creation of visually compelling architectural façades from text-based prompts. While these outputs are expressive and stylistically diverse, they remain fundamentally unstructured, lacking spatial intelligence, semantic clarity, and geometric editability. This limits their integration into architectural design … Read more

AssetPulse – Graph-Driven Asset Mastery


MaCAD 2024-2025 by
MaCAD 2024-2025

Simulate. Forecast. Outpace failure. Abstract AssetPulse is an advanced asset management simulation tool and synthetic data generator designed to optimize resource allocation, improve decision-making, and facilitate research through realistic scenario modeling. Building on a graph-based approach, AssetPulse models asset lifecycles, calculates remaining useful life (RUL), and applies business rules for budget planning, risk management, and … Read more

AIA25 Studio – HaBiCoM


MaCAD 2024-2025 by
MaCAD 2024-2025

HaBiCoM is an AI-powered copilot designed to assist architects, designers, and users in shaping smarter, more responsive interior spaces. At its core, HaBiCoM redefines the way we approach furniture placement within residential environments by aligning each design decision with the user’s unique daily habits, lifestyle rhythms, and thermal comfort needs. Unlike traditional layout tools, HaBiCoM … Read more

gAIa*


MaCAD 2024-2025 by
MaCAD 2024-2025

A sustainability CoPilot Gaia is an intelligent design assistant, a copilot that supports architects in navigating the early stages of design with real-time environmental feedback. Named after the ancient Greek personification of the Earth, Gaia reflects both the ecological focus of the tool and its role as a guiding presence in the creative process. The … Read more

Captain CAT – Courtyard advisory tool


MaCAD 2024-2025 by
MaCAD 2024-2025

Consider yourself a local architect or urban planner dealing with the all-too-common Barcelona problem: Its too hot here! and the courtyard outside feels like a desolate oven. Imagine now that your co-pilot is a pixel-art cat that is friendly, understands the climatic conditions and works with you to create a courtyard that is actually comfortable, … Read more

Graph-Based Clustering for Daylight Optimization


MaCAD 2024-2025 by
MaCAD 2024-2025

Using Node Similarity and Machine Learning: How advanced graph analytics and spatial daylight autonomy analysis are transforming architectural design workflow Introduction In an age where climate-driven architecture is paramount, daylight performance remains central to both spatial experience and energy efficiency. Our project tackles this by combining IFC data, graph logic, and machine intelligence to create … Read more

Exploring Spatial Intelligence: Graph Machine Learning in Courtyard Design


MaCAD 2024-2025 by
MaCAD 2024-2025

Nestled within IAAC’s Master of Advanced Computational Design program, our recent investigation of Graph Machine Learning (Graph ML) sought to reimagine how we perceive, evaluate, and improve architectural spaces. Our team of Andrea, Leila, Lennart, and Mahnoor worked on a courtyard prototype to create a seamless process that combines parametric modeling, semantic data interchange, and … Read more

GraphML for furniture placement


MaCAD 2024-2025 by
MaCAD 2024-2025

This project introduces a graph-based machine learning system designed to automate furniture placement in apartment layouts. The workflow was developed as part of an architectural design studio and played a key role in generating comfort-driven interior configurations. At its core, the system encodes spatial and functional rules such as placing a sofa near a window … Read more

EVOLUTION OF IMPERFECTION


MaCAD 2024-2025 by
MaCAD 2024-2025

A STORY OF SYNTHETIC LIFE FORM HAVE YOU EVER DREAMT OF A BETTER VERSION OF YOURSELF? The Substance, directed by Coralie Fargeat (Universal Pictures, 2024) This project simulates a linear evolutionary process in which a synthetic organism progressively transforms to become more human-like. The evolution is guided entirely by language models, with no human intervention … Read more

The Construction Graph: Rethinking how we build, one Node at a Time


MaCAD 2024-2025 by
MaCAD 2024-2025

Abstract In this project, we explore how graph-based thinking can reshape construction planning by bridging design data and scheduling logic. Drawing inspiration from modular architecture and network theory, we investigate new ways to visualize, analyze, and optimize the sequencing of building elements. By combining insights from BIM, parametric modeling, and graph analysis, the work aims … Read more

Graph Thinking for Adaptive Living


MaCAD 2024-2025 by
MaCAD 2024-2025

Our Solution: The Co-creator App We’ve developed a Copilot App – a local AI system that lives in your building and speaks your language. Literally. You make natural language requests, and it translates them into real architectural actions by understanding the complex relationships between spaces and residents through graph databases and GDS algorithms. Here’s how … Read more

THERMAL COMFORT_A predictive model for PMV index


MaCAD 2024-2025 by
MaCAD 2024-2025

Thermal Comfort Index Prediction // Definition OBJECTIVE: predicting thermal comfort in air-conditioned residential buildings using machine learning algorithms. What is indoor thermal comfort? Thermal comfort is “That condition of mind that expresses satisfaction with the thermal environment” (ISO 7730) People may feel that their surroundings are warm, cold or simply comfortable depending on the thermal state … Read more

The Carbon Blueprint


MaCAD 2024-2025 by
MaCAD 2024-2025

GWP-data enriched graphs Imagine being able to see the carbon footprint of a building, not after it’s built, but while it’s still a sketch. What if architects and engineers could get real-time sustainability feedback the moment they decide on a material or tweak a wall layout? That’s the vision behind Visual GWP. We combined Graph … Read more

KG LineART


MaCAD 2024-2025 by
MaCAD 2024-2025

A GRADIO tool that generates architectural line drawings from Rhino3D Viewport screenshots by relating on a trained LoRA of architectural line drawings that takes the viewport input prompt option setting and generate a ready to use line drawing The User even have the option to edit the Hue and Saturation of the line drawing and … Read more

ARchitect


MaCAD 2024-2025 by
MaCAD 2024-2025

Sketches in Space with AI and LoRA What if architects could doodle inside their designs—live, in 360°? ARchitect is a mixed-reality interface I developed for stylizing architectural spaces using expressive, cartoon-like overlays. Powered by LoRA fine-tuning and a custom-trained Flux, ARchitect reimagines how we interact with our built environment—by making architectural visualization playful, intuitive, and … Read more