AI is pushing physical limits to the limit
Technology has enabled architects to push the boundaries of form and functionality for a long time. Sketchpad was one of the earliest architectural software programs. It allowed designers and architects to manipulate objects on a screen as early as 1963. The traditional art of hand-drawing gave way to a suite of software programs, including Revit, SketchUp and BIM. These programs helped to create floor plans, sections, track energy usage and enhance sustainable construction. They also assisted in following building code. The architects who are exhibiting at “Transductions”, despite the fears of some peers, view AI as a “new tool” rather than an end to their profession. He adds, “I do appreciate that it’s a somewhat unnerving thing for people,
I feel a familiarity with the rhetoric.”
After all, he says, AI doesn’t just do the job. He says that it takes a lot of time to get AI to do anything interesting or worth saving. “My visual sense and architectural vocabulary have been re-energized, and I’ve worked out all the muscles that had atrophied.” Do I believe it is the future of architecture as we know it? No, but I think it’s a tool and a medium that can expand the long history of mediums and media that architects can use not just to represent their work but as a generator of ideas.”[but]Andrew Kudless, Hines College of Architecture and Design
This image, part of the Urban Resolution series, shows how the Stable Diffusion AI model “is unable to focus on constructing a realistic image and instead duplicates features that are prominent in the local latent space,” Kudless says.
