Fostering creativity using AI towards a circular economy inarchitectural engineering design

• Autores: Vanessa Schwarzkopf, P. Y. Wu, Tobias Nolte, Catherine De Wolf
• Localización: Structures and Architecture. Volume 3: REstructure REmaterialize REthink REuse / Mario Rinke (ed. lit.), Marie Frier Hvejsel (ed. lit.), Aníbal Maury Ramírez (ed. lit.), Zena Ndiaye (ed. lit.), Ilse Lindenbergh (ed. lit.), Elise Enthoven (ed. lit.), 2025, ISBN 9781040447239, págs. 3-10
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Introducing repurposed materials into building design is critical for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and waste generation from the architecture, engineering, and construction sector. However, designing from reclaimed materials requires a design method for creatively reassembling distinct building components. Generative artificial intelligence (AI), capable of creating content based on learned data patterns, offers a new possibility for conceptual design in architecture. The study explores generative AI-aided design strategies for creatively (re-)assembling reused building materials and proposes an innovative circular design framework. We investigate the role of generative AI for exploring image-to-image and text-to- image generators in creatively managing and imaginatively applying building component databases for circular design. We show the potential of generative AI for supporting human creativity in the proposed co-design approach to forge a new aesthetic paradigm in architecture focused on the creative amalgamation of distinct elements