The impact of AI on design and architecture is an increasingly hot topic. AI design searches have increased dramatically on pinterestand we have collected seven architecture projects from our AI designs advice.
A growing number of architects and designers are now using text-to-image generators, including ChatGPTDalle-E and MidJourney, to support them in the design process.
This roundup features studios like Zaha Hadid Architects and Hickok Cole, who used AI to design concept buildings.
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This year, the director of Zaha Hadid Architects Patrick Schumacher revealed the studio’s use of image-generated technology to produce design ideas for projects.
Schumacher presented several images of buildings made using DALL-E 2, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, including visualization of potential projects for Neom. The AI-generated images featured the studio’s signature fluid and edgy style.
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Indian architect and computer designer Manas Bhatia used image-to-text generator Midjourney to create a project designed to “make people think about a future where architecture coexists with nature”.
Bhatia hopes that by creating images of buildings with natural qualities using AIpeople will imagine a world where architecture and nature can coincide. Bhatia also created the main image for this story.
Dezeen spoke to Bhatia and other architects and designers from how AI software will change architecture and design.
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Hickok Cole project architect Jack Lynch used the AI chatbot ChatGPT design a large mixed use building with a green roof and one pool as a research project.
The building designed by ChatGPT was imagined to be 24 stories high and accommodate retail, deskResidential, hotel And library the spaces. To visualize the structure, Lynch used ChatGPT to create prompts and entered them into the text-to-image AI tool Midjourney.
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Designer Tim Fu used LookX to turn photographs of crumpled paper into architect-inspired building models Frank Gehry (above) and Zaha Hadid.
“He has so much potential, not just in the present but in the future, because he’s only going to go in a much more developed direction,” Fu told Dezeen.
Last month, Dezeen challenged readers to design the illustrations for our latest editorial series, titled AItopia. For his entry, Canadian R&D technician Daniel Riopel used Midjourney to create a glass planet Earth that is embedded in the core of a motherboard (above).
According to Riopel, the design represents the complex and intertwined relationship between humanity and technology.
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Nathan Branch is a first-party architectural wizard who also entered the AI player competition.
Branch’s entry, which was also made using Midjourney, depicts a dystopian vision of a future occupied by giant data cores housing AI servers in reference to humanity’s endless pursuit of technological progress.
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San Francisco-based Polish architect Gabriela Piasta Tworek created their drawing for the Dezeen AI reader contest using Midjourney.
Tworek’s work envisions a future city shaped by vast neural networks – the computer systems that power AI.
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