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Course overview

This course is for architects, interior designers, visualizers and practice communication staff who want to bring AI into visual production without betraying the project. You learn to choose your tools, keep the 3D model as the reference and handle rights and transparency. You leave with a justified tool chain and an AI use policy for your practice.

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Lesson objective

By the end of this overview, you will know what you are going to build (a justified tool chain and an AI use policy) and in what order the five modules get you there.

Topics covered

  • AI in architecture
  • architectural visualization
  • AI rendering
  • practice AI policy
  • AI tools for architects

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Overview

What will I build in this course, and in what order?

Lessons in this module

  1. Course overview (this lesson)

What you will learn in the course

This lesson is part of the course Bring AI into architectural visualization

  • Identify, for a given project, the steps where AI speeds up visual production or analysis, and those where the 3D model and the architect's judgment remain the reference, including for regulatory compliance.
  • Generate façade or mood variations from a 3D view with a built-in tool or an image model, while controlling fidelity to the project (structured prompt, influence, masks, references), then choose a rendering engine and AI post-production according to the deliverable and the license.
  • Run a workflow of mesh export, AI material creation and re-import into a rendering engine, and diagnose a faulty PBR material.
  • Assess the risks of an AI-assisted visual (usage rights, copyright protection, confidentiality of 3D models, transparency towards the client and the public) and write the corresponding usage rules.
  • Select a tool chain suited to a deliverable (competition, design stages, marketing, renovation, planning application) and justify it by fidelity, lead time, quality, license cost and risk.

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