Architechtures is a generative AI-driven residential architectural design platform, with the goal of helping architects and real estate developers quickly generate optimal residential development schemes in the early stages of a project, shortening the initial design time that originally took months to just a few minutes.
Purpose The platform is mainly used for feasibility analysis and schematic design in the initial stages of residential projects. According to the official description, the early stage of a residential project is the critical phase that determines feasibility and added value, involving quantitative factors such as regulatory compliance, project planning, and cost, as well as qualitative factors that affect design quality. Architechtures covers this process, helping designers meet quantitative requirements in real time so they can focus their energy on enhancing architectural value.
Main Capabilities
- Design criteria setting: You can set the minimum and maximum net area for each type of room and unit type, minimum room dimensions, floor height, and vertical circulation specifications, etc.
- AI-optimized design: The cloud-based AI system generates in real time the most matching geometric scheme based on the parameters input in each iteration.
- Combination of manual modeling and AI: Users model the massing of above-ground and underground buildings and parking lots in 2D and 3D, and automatic design is carried out on this basis, with the results adjustable manually.
- Real-time BIM model: A BIM model is generated in real time, and the data can be browsed online for easy review and editing.
- Instant area and project data: Real-time display of unit planning, building area by use and type, detailed gross and net area breakdown for each unit type, and compliance with urban parameters.
- Real-time update of bill of quantities: Detailed quantity calculations are performed for each work unit, and users can enter the unit cost for each line to understand at any time the economic impact of design decisions.
- Assisted generation of underground garages: Underground parking layouts are automatically generated according to design criteria and user-defined outlines, and elements such as ramps, driveways, and storage areas can be iteratively adjusted.
- Environmental integration: The project area can be defined and the location imported via OpenStreetMap, including building massing, roads, terrain elevation points, and existing vegetation.
- Terrain adaptation: Buildings can automatically adjust their position according to terrain imported from OSM or CAD, and users can also modify the terrain with built-in tools.
- Custom presets: Presets for design criteria and cost parameters can be saved to simplify the configuration process.
- Environmental response: Building performance is simulated in real time to understand annual passive performance, and based on this, the building and unit layouts can be optimized.
- Collaboration and sharing: Copies of the design can be shared with colleagues in view mode or edit mode, and they can access it after registering.
- Design download: Once the project is finalized, XLSX reports, DXF files, and BIM models in IFC format can be downloaded. The report includes unit calculationsplans, area tables for each unit type, detailed budgets and high-resolution drawings; DXF includes the site plan, plans and elevations for each building and parking lot; IFC includes complete building definitions, component families and thicknesses, views and area specifications.
How to use Users input on the platform the design criteria that the project must satisfy, and define and model the scheme online in 2D and 3D. The cloud-based AI system generates geometry that conforms to the parameters in real time, and users evaluate the geometry and analysis results and continuously adjust until satisfied. The entire process requires no installation and is available 24/7 via the cloud.
Use cases Suitable for architects and real estate developers conducting feasibility analysis, regulatory compliance checks, rapid scheme iteration and cost estimation in the early stages of residential projects. It is officially stated that its users range from freelancers to large enterprises.
Limitations The materials do not provide details such as the specific charging method, pricing, scope of the free trial, supported languages or regions, or model accuracy commitments. Some features (such as collaborative chat, multiple editors, change notifications, tagging colleagues) are marked as "coming soon." The platform is mainly aimed at residential development, and its capabilities for other building types have not yet been explained.
Other The company states that it can reduce project design and development time by 99%, that design results are precise and error-free, and that it is fully compatible with BIM standards. It has received the 2023 Radio Intereconomía Special Award for Artificial Intelligence, the DRASTIC 2021 Summit Contech Pitch competition award, the 2019 ASPRIMA-SIMA Real Estate Innovation Award and the 2019 PropTech Best Innovation Award. The project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement No. 854888).
