Architecture with artificial intelligence AI
Now, the future is already heading towards artificial intelligence, to AI architecture in its maximum expression, even if it doesn’t seem like it or we don’t perceive it. This technology is radically changing how we carry out architectural projects.
Are you ready? Do you think a “machine” can never replace you? Be careful, because architecture with artificial intelligence is already here and AI is moving very fast!
AI in architecture not only optimizes or speeds up daily work, but also displaces the professional’s work. New skills are needed for traditional work!
Just as drafting in CAD produces detailed drawings and made our manual skills almost irrelevant. Artificial intelligence systems in architecture can do the same. For example…
First, we are going to show you the latest developments in AI in architecture…
AI tools for architecture
The truth is, there is a long list of online AI tools for architecture. We have only selected the best AI programs for carrying out projects:
1.- Finch 3D
- Optimizes building layouts using generative design and creates efficient building plans based on AI parameters and analysis.
- Integrates interactive 3D models for collaboration and continuous improvement.
- Compatible with CAD software, Revit, Rhino, and Grasshopper, with bidirectional 3D data transmission.
Access the tool Finch 3D from HERE.
2.- Planfinder
- It is an Addon for Autodesk Revit, Rhinoceros 3D, and Grasshopper.
- Automatically generates layout plans based on exterior contours and desired rooms.
- Allows quick adjustments and the creation of custom libraries. Notable for its speed and ease of use.
Access the application in Planfinder from HERE.
3.- Maket AI
- Focused on generating house layouts. Allows defining the number and dimensions of rooms and offers multiple layout options.
- Accessible to non-technical users, simple and without the need for additional software.
- Allows exploring multiple adapted design options. Saves time and fosters creativity in architecture.
Access the software in Maket AI from HERE.
🟧 Note: If you want to see more programs specialized in layouts, you can check the article on AI for creating plans.
4.- LookX AI
- Specialized in interior design and architecture. Transforms pencil sketches into rendered 3D models and adjusts photographs to decorative styles.
- Offers high customization with 100 credits for images. Powerful, wide range of styles, and constantly evolving—a top in AI!
To access LookX you can do it from HERE.
5.- Prome AI
- Focused on interior design, construction visualizations, and image retouching.
- Converts sketches or drafts into stylized interior designs with AI.
- Intuitive, robust, well recognizes photos and sketches, removes and replaces objects, variety of styles.
The online program can be accessed at Prome AI from HERE.
6.- Planner 5
It is one of the all-in-one tools; with the potential of AutoCAD but much simpler to use, intuitive and fast in creating those projects.
You can make 2D and 3D plans, quick layouts, interior design, 3D representations with AI, or use its assistant and artificial intelligence to guide you in the design. You can enter Planner 5d from HERE.
7.- Homestyler
- For interior design projects in 2D and 3D. Allows creating from floor plans to applying decorative styles through AI.
- Extensive library of furniture and objects, available on mobile, at reasonable prices.
The software can be accessed on its website in Homestyler from HERE.
🟧 Note: If you want to see more programs specialized in decoration, you can check the article on decoration and interior design with AI.
8.- Autodesk Forma
- Facilitates the creation of conceptual designs with AI. Design of sustainable and livable cities. Integrates with AutoCAD and Revit.
- Simulates design impacts on environmental and urban factors. Improves efficiency through automation.
A powerful software that can be consulted from Autodesk Forma on the official portal HERE.
9.- Adobe Firefly
- Generative artificial intelligence tool specialized in creating photorealistic images.
- Generates images and text effects for creative content. Very useful in architectural projects.
- One of the most powerful options for image assembly and has a monthly trial version with many photographs.
We can enter Adobe Firefly from HERE.
10.- Homik
- It is a Spanish software specialized in creating renovation budgets with artificial intelligence
- Apart from materializing the calculations, it also provides suggestions and creates a detailed report of all the characteristics of the rehabilitation in the home.
The online tool can be accessed from Homik on its website HERE.
11.- Arko AI
- Cloud-based AI-powered rendering service specialized in architectural projects.
- Provides fast and high-quality photorealistic renders.
- Compatible with tools like SketchUp, Revit, or Rhinoceros.
Access the online program in Arko AI from HERE.
12.- Sidewalk Labs
- Revolutionizes urban planning through artificial intelligence and is a product backed by Google.
- Combines AI, machine learning, and sensor technologies.
- Implemented in cities like Toronto, New York, and Singapore.
Access the tool from Sidewalk Labs by clicking HERE.
13.- Kaedim 3D
- Advanced in AI-powered 3D modeling. Converts 2D designs into precise 3D models.
- More interesting for the engineering sector, but surely useful in some architectural projects
- Facilitates the exploration of design concepts.
Access the application from Kaedim 3D from HERE.
What is the evolution of virtual or artificial intelligence
Here, we would like to show the evolution in artificial intelligence and what its trends are in a graphical way, testing the unstoppable increase:
The rapid growth of the AI sector is the result of a perfect storm of factors: cheap parallel processing power, vast creation of large amounts of data, and the competitive needs of companies to increase their productivity.
The greatest risk of artificial intelligence in the architectural sector is that professionals think it will not affect their work
Artificial intelligence is advancing so fast, you must start now
This combination of factors is expected to generate a virtuous cycle and exponential growth in the next decade. By sectors and countries, we can test:
Trend of artificial intelligence in architecture
Recognizing that we are in the information age and its analysis is nothing new, but the trends like Big Data with concepts as interesting as Predictive Analytics whose explanation is detailed by 1and1 here, or new perspectives that go much further than analytics and combine virtual and artificial intelligence. Now it’s time to understand a little more about AI and how it will affect us.
According to experts, there are two futures for professions, and both will rest on technology.
- The first, a much more efficient version of what we currently have. Here, is where architects will use technology to optimize traditional ways of working.
- The second, technology not only optimizes or speeds up daily work, but also displaces the professional’s work. That is, machines or systems capable of operating alone or with users will appear, but they need to have different skills than today’s architect. This new technology will take on tasks that we have considered can only be done traditionally.
Sorry!… But we have to recognize that the first option, in the long run, will disappear. Traditional professions; whether an architect, engineer, builder, bricklayer, etc. will change! and if you don’t believe it, check out three featured articles on AI in architecture software:
- How to make house or building layout plans in 3 minutes with AI
- How to create renders in Revit Autodesk in 1 minute with Artificial Intelligence
- How to create all the plans and 3D of a building in 10 minutes
Why will we have a different future?… We will have tasks instead of jobs. We think that professional work is a set of individual efforts, but in practice, what we do are different activities or tasks in our jobs, and here, the technology of artificial intelligence will enter with great force.
A example of artificial intelligence in action…
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Artificial technology does not displace entire jobs, but changes the “tasks” that people do in their job. For example, CAD software does not replace architects, but changes the tasks they perform, or the famous ChatGPT that is revolutionizing the way we transmit information.
At this point, it is wrong to think that “being creative” represents a guaranteed job, certainly some daily tasks will need creativity, but not all require it as the video on intuitive artificial intelligence confirms.
The new ChatGPT is revolutionizing how we write and communicate with clients or professionals in the sector
So the architecture sector and its professionals will have to adapt to the challenges of the so-called “Second Age of Machines“, when machines not only do things we program, but can do the tasks we do.
Examples of artificial intelligence
- We start from a simple perspective, making layout plans. The PlanFinder application more than a technical software, is an AI addon – plugin – that is incorporated into the Autodesk Revit program, Rhinoceros 3D, or Grasshopper, to make layouts in automatic format according to a determined contour:
- The perfect example of a project with artificial intelligence in architecture we buy from Autodesk called Dreamcatcher. What would happen if through a CAD system we could generate thousands of design options that met specific objectives?
An example of AI that is based on a regenerative design and architecture system that allows the architect to create a solution to a design problem through limitations and objectives that we indicate. This software plays a participatory and active role in the invention of form.
For example, we add requirements for functionalities, structures, manufacturing methods, types of materials, cost reception…etc. And the CAD program not only takes care of showing us the best option (For example, the cheapest) but also describes possible viable alternatives.
The learning capacity of AI is enormous, we can learn a little more on this YouTube channel, and also, if we use applications embedded in mobile phones where information is stored by users. Here the technology is capable of collecting and analyzing habits to meet specific needs by users.
- The architecture industry has been using parametric design based on artificial intelligence for years, creating models that you can adapt to multiple dimensions like the following parking…
Firms like Zaha Hadid Architects and MAD Architects have become more than famous worldwide for their ability to control the logic of the software that can create thousands of variations of a design based on the inputs of a building facing sun exposure, views, or pedestrian movement.
- Example of a project created with artificial intelligence by the firm Zaha Hadid Architects in the Mathematics: The Winton Gallery, the first permanent public exhibition in a museum by the renowned studio.
- Decoration with artificial intelligence is booming. Software exclusively for designing spaces very quickly, and they do it well. They apply styles in seconds for both exterior and interior. An example:
If you want to see the most used programs, you can check the following two articles:
Advantages and disadvantages of artificial intelligence
We all agree that the collaboration between intelligent machines and humans will increase workers’ skills but… Won’t it lead to job losses? If we start looking at some serious reports on the subject, like the Capgemini document, it gives us some interesting data on what advantages artificial intelligence brings to their organizations:
- Influence on sales. 3 out of 4 organizations that have implemented AI have achieved an increase in sales of new products and services by more than 10%.
- Boost in operations. 78% of organizations have increased their productivity efficiency by more than 10%.
- Customer appeal. 75% of organizations that have used AI consider that customer satisfaction increased by more than 10%.
- Idea generator. 79% of organizations believe they have generated new insights and improved analyses.
And from the perspective of boosting and improving sales through the use of AI, the data provided is more than positive:
More customer satisfaction, more sales, more profits, means economic growth for companies that correlates with an increase in staff, which is true, but in reality, there is a small trick in the short term that can be a disadvantage for many users.
As we can see in the following graph, most of the positions being created right now are among managers and executives.
The answer to the graph is simple, highly qualified and continuously trained professionals are needed to work together with AI. And of course, the top executives of any company are the first interested in training if they want to survive in that competitive world.
Obviously, not everything is a benefit, we also note disadvantages of virtual intelligence or risks to our work environment:
- We will have more cybercrimes and information leaks.
- We will have to be much more specialized and continuously trained.
- These are not cheap technologies and create dependency on external companies.
- Difficulty in finding errors within such a complex system.
- Complexity when making changes.
- Conflicts between work-life balance and relationships between users – machines (They work 24 hours).
Thus, as we enter a artificial technological future and permanently connected to the Internet, we should ask ourselves if there could be new ways to organize professional work, new ways to share and produce practical knowledge in society, new ways to solve important problems that, traditionally, only professionals have solved.
The challenge for every architect in the face of AI in architecture will be to recognize this change in work activity and anticipate new tasks by developing the necessary skills that will be required.
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