AI Sampling Singapore Lehen Funtzioa: Etxebizitza Arkitektura by Immanuel Koh

AI Sampling Singapore Lehen Funtzioa: Etxebizitza Arkitektura by Immanuel Koh is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Burdinazko Saria A' Design Award in Diseinu Sortzaile, Algoritmiko, Parametriko eta AA Lagundua Competition Category.

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AI Sampling Singapore Lehen Funtzioa: Etxebizitza Arkitektura

by Immanuel Koh

Client: Immanuel Koh

Burdinazko Saria A' Design Award Winner in Diseinu Sortzailea Category

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The Design

About AI Sampling Singapore Lehen Funtzioa: Etxebizitza Arkitektura

Liburuaren Testua: Singapur hiri artifizial bat da. Singapurren aurkitutako eraikin altuen 3D eredu digitalen datu-multzo handi batekin trebatuta, neurrira diseinatutako IA ereduak ez ditu soilik formalki sinesgarriak eta semantikoki koherenteak diren konfigurazioak sortzen, baizik eta forma arkitektoniko berri eta bitxiak ere imajinatzen hasten da, etxebizitza altuen tipologia estandarren artean—hala nola xafla, puntu eta multzo blokeen artean—interpolatuz eta estrapolatuz.

The Recognition

About the Burdinazko Saria A' Design Award

AI Sampling Singapore Lehen Funtzioa: Etxebizitza Arkitektura Burdinazko Saria A' Design Award irabazlea da, ondo diseinatutako sorkuntzetatik espero diren eskakizun profesional eta industrialak betetzen dituzten diseinu onei ematen zaien aitorpen prestijiotsua. Burdin-mailako irabazleek beren sortzaileen trebetasun handia, espezializazio handia, adituen ulermena eta sormen-gaitasuna erakusten dituzte. AI Sampling Singapore Lehen Funtzioa: Etxebizitza Arkitektura oso estimatua, miretsia eta maitea den sorkuntza izatea espero da, praktikoa eta berritzailea dena. Burdinazko Saria A' Design Award irabazi duen diseinu honek sektoreko praktika onenak integratzen ditu eta know-how-ari eta talentuari lotutako ezaugarri tekniko gaituak ditu. AI Sampling Singapore Lehen Funtzioa: Etxebizitza Arkitektura zehaztasunagatik errespetatua den lana da, eta mundua leku hobea egiten laguntzen duten bizi-kalitatearen hobekuntzak eskaintzeko diseinatua dagoena.

Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Is it possible to sample at scale and at high-resolution every single building ever built in a country? If so, can such a dataset be used to train an AI model in generating new yet locally compliant buildings without any explicit regulatory control inputs? The project explores the design agency of deep generative neural networks in learning three-dimensional exteriority and interiority with a redesigned 3D generative adversarial network (3D-GAN) AI model. Winner of WAFX2024, IDA2024 and BLT2024.
Dimensions & Packaging: This is a digital AI x Architecture project. Each generated output is a new high-rise high-density residential public housing of up to 30 floors.
Tags: AI
Production Technology: A custom generative AI model was trained from scratch using proprietary code base and dataset. Specifically, a 3D generative adversarial network (3D-GAN) AI model was trained to learn semantic and spatial configuration of high-rise high-density residential public housing in Singapore.
Design Challenge: The non-existence of 3D models and their corresponding floor plans was the first challenge. New workflow and tools had to be developed to not only collect (i.e., digitally and physically), but create (annotate) and curate (i.e., exploratory data analysis) such high quality dataset to train an AI model from scratch. Technically difficult due to the scalability of similar CAD representation which was overcome via a novel AI latent representation of 3D.
Research: A custom generative AI model was trained from scratch using proprietary code base and dataset. Specifically, a 3D generative adversarial network (3D-GAN) AI model was trained to learn semantic and spatial configuration of high-rise high-density residential public housing in Singapore.
Inspiration: Singapore is an artificial city! Trained with a large dataset of 3D digital models of high-rise buildings found in Singapore, the custom-designed AI model generates not only formally plausible and semantically coherent configurations, but begins to also imagine novel and uncanny architectural forms, interpolating and extrapolating among standard high-rise housing typologies such as the slab, point, and cluster blocks. Project exhibited at Venice Architecture Biennale and Singapore's Arts House.
Project Duration: This is an on-going and longer-term AI x Architecture research being conducted at the university design lab since 2021. It was however only published much later as an official architectural design award entry from 2024 onwards.
Operation Flow: This is a digital AI x Architecture generative research project, while the dataset was digitally collected from existing physical buildings in Singapore.
Patents: Currently no patent.
Team Members: Artificial-Architecture
Image Credits: All credits: Artificial-Architecture