When Architect Asks AI to Design Futuristic Skyscrapers It Proposed a Vertical Forest
An Indian architect was excited about the potential for AI to enhance the creativity of city architecture, and he asked an image bot to generate a vision for the future of cities.
All he had to do was enter a series of text prompts, for which he used some like ‘Utopian Technology’ and ‘Futuristic Towers’.
Delightfully, the AI software called Midjourney, didn’t produce a grey-sky mechanical utopia of humans trapped in battery pods like in The Matrix. Instead, it depicted buildings cloaked in vertical forests and vegetation while borrowing structural shapes from nature.
Manas Bhatia, like so many architects around the world, believes that the profession needs to make as much room for nature as possible to guarantee a more sustainable future. For his project “AI x Future Cities” he used Midjourney to create what the human minds at his firm, Ant Studio, might not be able to come up with on their own—a creative element he sees as offering huge potential for positive change in the field.
Working on the project, Bhatia would change the text prompts by putting new words in and taking other ones out, while both he and the AI worked together to refine their vision for future cities.
“The trial-and-error part is the most fun,” Bhatia told CNN. “We use AI to create images and, in the process, the AI trains itself and improves over time
Bhatia is extremely positive about the future of AI, as opposed to seeing it as something that will potentially put him out of a job.
