When AI finds the form
GPT-6 Astra brings AI agents into the modeling process. An introduction to LLMs, diffusion and the architectural decisions behind a convincing form.
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A diagram is an architectural argument
A line can make a relationship visible and leave another out. Reading programme, circulation and section through Seattle Central Library.
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What survives a design revision?
A revised image, a moved wall and a changed parameter preserve different things. A method note on making continuity inspectable.
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Three pavilions, one review board
An Archly trial with stone, plaster and timber: the prompts, the alternatives and what changed between them.
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Three events on our autumn watchlist
AU, ACADIA and SIGGRAPH Asia raise different questions about office tools, computation and visual workflows.
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Before the IFC: define the handover
A model can open successfully and still lack the information its recipient needs. A small IDS trial makes that gap visible.
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AI agents need editable geometry
A useful design assistant must work with units, object relationships and changes that a designer can inspect.
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A material study becomes useful when its images answer one question and the accepted change returns to the project.
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An AI workshop starts with one office task
A small pilot should leave the team with a repeatable method, a review routine and an example it can maintain.
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What architectural context does AI need?
A detail is more than a file. Its project, revision and design assumptions determine when it is useful.
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GPT-6 Astra: from brief to editable scene
A published Blender example shifts the question from image quality to the continuity of a design through revisions.
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Falcon: reading the Grasshopper definition
Our working research prototype explores how an assistant can understand the definition a designer is already using.
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FraktalMCP 1.0 on Food4Rhino
Our Grasshopper plugin connects a written request to Rhino geometry or Python code, using your own Anthropic API key.
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SpaceCraft: from capture to an editable plan
Development notes on separate floor-plan and 3D captures, plan editing and files for the next design task.
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Four review questions help keep an atmospheric image connected to the design it is meant to explain.
Read article A Grasshopper definition needs a handover
Names, units, examples and failure messages determine whether another designer can continue a useful script.
Read article Scan first, design with a checked reference
Room capture becomes useful when its purpose, missing information and export checks stay with the model.
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What a bridge concept can tell us
Branching geometry starts a structural question. A reproducible study needs loads, supports, comparisons and fabrication decisions.
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GPT Image 2 in an Archly workflow
Start with a sketch or reference, define one visual change and inspect the result before developing it further.
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Archly’s beta: a starting point
From beta to the current workspace: linked revisions, visual comparison and continuing a selected result on one canvas.
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Reviewing Grasshopper code with AI
A useful review preserves the input and output contract, explains a proposed change and checks its behavior in Grasshopper.
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ZHA: continuity through joints
Nordpark’s roof shells hold a formal family together across different sites. Their continuity raises questions at the scale of the joint.
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Choose Grasshopper tools around the task
A useful plugin library starts with a recurring problem, a small test definition and a clear owner.
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AI floor plans that remain editable
Graph2Plan and HouseDiffusion offer two ways to make room relationships part of generation. What should a designer check?
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Reasoning models need a clear architectural brief
A note on o3-mini and two proposed review exercises: separate the evidence, assumptions and questions that remain open.
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SHoP: keeping design data attached
The Barclays Center facade offers a lesson in carrying information from the model through fabrication and assembly.
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Reading BIG’s Mountain through its section
Housing and parking meet in one sloping section. The Mountain shows how a clear diagram can make a design choice readable, while leaving other questions open.
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