SCAPE: Searching Conceptual Architecture Prompts using Evolution

Understand

Conceptual architecture involves a highly creative exploration of novel ideas, often taken from other disciplines as architects consider radical new forms, materials, textures and colors for buildings.

• While today's generative AI systems can produce remarkable results, they lack the creativity demonstrated for decades by evolutionary algorithms.
• SCAPE, our proposed tool, combines evolutionary search with generative AI, enabling users to explore creative and good quality designs inspired by their initial input through a simple point and click interface.
• SCAPE injects randomness into generative AI, and enables memory, making use of the built-in language skills of GPT-4 to vary prompts via text-based mutation and crossover.