AI Sampling Singapore Ailtireacht Tithíochta by Immanuel Koh

AI Sampling Singapore Ailtireacht Tithíochta by Immanuel Koh is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Duais Iarainn A' Design Award in Dealbhadh Gineadach, Algairimach, Parameatrach agus le Taic AI Competition Category.

IarannGineadach· 2025

AI Sampling Singapore Ailtireacht Tithíochta

by Immanuel Koh

Client: Immanuel Koh

Duais Iarainn A' Design Award Winner in Gineadach Category

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The Design

About AI Sampling Singapore Ailtireacht Tithíochta

Cathair shaorga is ea Singeapór. Á oiliúint le tacar sonraí mór de mhúnlaí digiteacha 3T d'fhoirgnimh ardéirí atá le fáil i Singeapór, ní hamháin go ngineann an múnla TS saincheaptha cumraíochtaí atá inchreidte ó thaobh foirme de agus comhleanúnach ó thaobh séimeantaice de, ach tosaíonn sé freisin ag samhlú foirmeacha ailtireachta nua agus aduain, ag idirshuíomh agus ag eachtarshuíomh i measc na ngnáth-thíopeolaíochtaí tithíochta ardéirí ar nós na mbloc leac, pointe agus braisle.

The Recognition

About the Duais Iarainn A' Design Award

Tha AI Sampling Singapore Ailtireacht Tithíochta air Duais Iarainn A' Design Award a bhuannachadh, aithneachadh urramach a bheirear do dhealbhaidhean math a choinnicheas ris na riatanasan proifeiseanta is gnìomhachais a thathar a' sùileachadh bho chruthachaidhean a chaidh an dealbhadh gu math. Tha buannaichean Iarainn a' nochdadh sgil mhòr, speisealachadh àrd, tuigse eòlaiche agus comas cruthachail an luchd-cruthachaidh. Thathar an dùil gum bi AI Sampling Singapore Ailtireacht Tithíochta na chruthachadh air a bheil mòran meas, ion-mholta agus gràdhach a tha practaigeach agus ùr-ghnàthach. Tha an dealbhadh seo a bhuannaich Duais Iarainn A' Design Award a' cur nan cleachdaidhean as fheàrr sa ghnìomhachas còmhla agus tha feartan teignigeach comasach aige ceangailte ri eòlas-dèanamh agus tàlant. Tha meas air AI Sampling Singapore Ailtireacht Tithíochta airson a dhùrachd agus chaidh a dhealbhadh gus leasachaidhean càileachd beatha a thoirt seachad a chuidicheas le bhith a' dèanamh an t-saoghail na àite nas fheàrr.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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