Unfinished Architectures: A Perspective from Artificial Intelligence

TL;DR

This paper explores how AI tools like DALL-E can assist in completing unfinished architectural facades, offering new perspectives on architectural composition and design possibilities.

Contribution

It introduces the application of AI image completion tools to architectural design, focusing on unfinished historical temple facades and compositional exploration.

Findings

AI can generate plausible completions for unfinished architectural elements.

AI tools reveal new compositional possibilities in architectural design.

The approach opens new avenues for integrating AI into architectural creativity.

Abstract

Unfinished buildings are a constant throughout the history of architecture and have given rise to intense debates on the opportuneness of their completion, in addition to offering alibis for theorizing about the compositional possibilities in coherence with the finished parts. The development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) opens new avenues for the proposal of possibilities for the completion of unfinished architectures. Specifically, with the recent appearance of tools such as DALL-E, capable of completing images guided by a textual description, it is possible to count on the help of AI for architectural design tasks. In this article we explore the use of these new AI tools for the completion of unfinished facades of historical temples and analyse the still germinal stadium in the field of architectural graphic composition.