Sketch-to-Architecture: Generative AI-aided Architectural Design
This work addresses the need for faster and more intuitive design tools for architects and designers, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing generative AI models.
The authors tackled the problem of architectural design ideation by developing a generative AI workflow that converts simple sketches into conceptual floorplans and 3D models, enabling rapid and controlled generation of architectural renderings based on textual descriptions.
Recently, the development of large-scale models has paved the way for various interdisciplinary research, including architecture. By using generative AI, we present a novel workflow that utilizes AI models to generate conceptual floorplans and 3D models from simple sketches, enabling rapid ideation and controlled generation of architectural renderings based on textual descriptions. Our work demonstrates the potential of generative AI in the architectural design process, pointing towards a new direction of computer-aided architectural design. Our project website is available at: https://zrealli.github.io/sketch2arc