ChatGPT Is Being Used By Hickok Cole To Design A 24-story Mixed-use Structure

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I essentially asked ChatGPT to design a building, but I did it in a way that I thought was step-by-step under the guidance of an architect.- Jack Lynch

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It started on a whim, actually. I was really drawn to the conversational style of ChatGPT, so I popped it open and decided to try and gauge how it could be used.- Jack Lynch

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This combination of materials would allow for a modern and sleek aesthetic while also providing some variety in texture and depth to the building's overall appearance. The building's form is relatively simple and efficient, extruding straight up with some subtle gestures or articulations added to the building's form to break up the massing and add visual interest- ChatGPT

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What I tried to do is create a rapport with the AI engine, and every time it suggested ideas I said, 'alright, let's build off that', in the same way that a supervisor would work with a young designer. And so every time we stepped forward, it would flesh out the design a bit more- Lynch

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The bot itself would introduce all of these architectural features. So it would say it would have a double height space here, it would implement natural light in these locations, which is not what I asked for. I would just ask it to reiterate the program, I would add a new constraint, and it would develop it and evolve it.- Lynch

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It understood that everything we've done to that point was a building block for the next step, in the same way that architects and designers work. It was keeping a record and it was modifying the record if there were constraints added later on if it felt there needed to be modifications. So to me that was just very exciting, because it was suddenly a tool that works to a level that current architecture tools don't have.- Lynch

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That would never happen. That's not efficient. After some back and forth with the bot it made its correction and moved forward. Later on in the conversation, I said, 'let's assume that the developer was very interested in this idea of split office space, would you reintroduce it?' And it said, 'No, because considering what we've talked about previously, it makes more sense to do it this way',- Lynch

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I'm super excited that I can use it as a starting point to spur design ideas, in the same way that colleagues of mine in the firm can go into a conference room and charrette out ideas at the beginning of a project . That is a great way to get past any sort of designer's block, to look at precedents in a super fast way that saves you hours of research time.- Lynch

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It just saves you so much time and it makes things so much more efficient, in the way that computer-aided design made things more efficient.- Lynch

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I think it's a little naive to assume that an advanced technological leap is going to suddenly put your profession at risk, there are countless moments in time where we've had technological leaps that have enhanced the design profession for the better.- Lynch

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When computer design started in the 1960s and '70s there was a fear that the craftsmanship of the architect or the pen-to-the-paper that really led to true inspiration was going to be gone, but we had a huge renaissance of different architecture stylesthat came about,- Lynch

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I think we're going to see that again. It's putting design into a different user's hands, and that doesn't mean that architecture is at risk, it means that it's going to be viewed a bit differently, and there are going to be people who come in and start to play around with it,- Lynch

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And maybe they're not trained in architecture, but that's okay, it doesn't concern me, because if they're using these tools the trained architect has the edge.- Lynch