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AI POWERED IDEATION
Masters Dissertation
Glasgow, UK / 2024
Description:
The Masters dissertation studies artificial intelligence, already used in architecture, and investigates AI’s possible impact on it. The theoretical part explores the structure, operation, and training methods of different AI models and explains how they evolved from optimisation tools and the “black box” problem behind them. This part also reviews the position of architectural researchers and data scientists assigned to AI within the digitalisation and automation of the architectural industry. The practical part investigates how “creative” AI tools can be integrated into the architectural design ideation process using my Stage 5 Final Design Thesis as the subject of study and training dataset. The finished design media (drawings, diagrams, visualisations and physical models) were translated into text prompts using the semantic method to be “recreated” by TextToImage AI. Then, a brand-new design iteration on the same site was developed from scratch using TextToText, TextToImage models and AI-powered CAD. The results of the practical part demonstrated which architectural design tasks AI can handle already and possibly in the future. This, together with the theoretical research outcomes, opened the route for the final discussion of AI’s possible impact on the architectural design process, employees’ skill sets, supply chain, legislation, and ethics behind it.
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Prompt:
A 3/4 eye-level view of the architectural exterior render of a dry dock maritime museum in an urban park in the dusk. Pavilion, green facade with glass curtain walls, corten steel parametric canopy, corten steel branching green columns, grey stone paving, glass walkable skylights, benches, and underground stairs. Grey granite dry docks, rusty bollards, sandstone paving and trees in the background and foreground. Industrial atmosphere, green atmosphere, artificial lighting, glowing windows, dark cloudy sky, rust colour, grey colour, sandstone colour, green colour, 2-point perspective, VRay render.
Compressed Prompt:
3/4 eye-level exterior render of a graving dockmaritime museum in an urban park in the dusk. Pavilion with green façade, curtain walls, corten steel canopy and branching green columns, grey and sandstone paving, walkable skylights, benches, stairs, grey granitegraving docks, rustybollards and trees. Industrial and green atmosphere, artificial lighting, cloudy sky, 2-point perspective, VRay.
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Dataset
Semantic Map
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Stable Diffusion V1.5
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Stable Diffusion XL
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Midjourney 1
Midjourney 5.2
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DALL-E 2
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Stable Diffusion V1.5
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Stable Diffusion XL
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SD V1.5 / Dreambooth (LookX)
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SD V1.5 / LoRA (LookX)
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