In the dynamic, ever changing world of architectural design, AI-driven tools like PromeAI are reshaping the landscape, offering architects a faster, more intuitive means to bring their creative visions to life. PromeAI, an AI-powered design assistant, is particularly gaining traction for its ability to transform initial sketches into detailed, realistic visualisations effortlessly.
Here’s a deeper look into the capabilities and functionalities that make PromeAI a noteworthy platform for professionals:
Empowering Architects with Advanced Capabilities
PromeAI equips architects with a robust suite of features including text to image creation, sketch rendering, erase and replace, outpainting, background remover and relighting tools. These abilities give it some serious advantages to being an all in one tool for rendering and graphic design workflows. Whether it is creating imagery from scratch, converting a hand sketch to a rendered image or touching up existing renders and images. These tools are particularly beneficial for rapid prototyping and visualisation and assisting designers to see and refine their ideas in real-time.
Using hand sketches paired with text prompts to visualise design in PromeAI
Model Rendering and Modifications
PromeAI slots nicely into the architectural design workflow at various stages. You can use PromeAI as the first tool to generate and ideate imagery from text prompts or later in the design process using renders or white card stills from your 3D design models such as SketchUp, Rhino, 3DS max, Revit, Blender, and Maya, and materialise touch up or edit. These tools facilitate quick modifications to specific parts of a design, ensuring that designers can iterate efficiently without the need for extensive manual adjustments
User-Friendly Interface
Ease of use is a significant focus for PromeAI. The platform is designed to be intuitive, allowing both seasoned professionals and novices to navigate its features without a steep learning curve. This accessibility is crucial for facilitating broader adoption and enabling users to get the most out of the technology without extensive training.
The PromeAI interface where you can add your sketch, prompt text and adjust style, scene, mode accuracy and more
once we upload our sketch or image we would like to render (example above) we can then toggle a few settings to get the output we desire.
Style: This parameter drives the style of the image from photography to conceptual art, black and white, illustration and more. Im going to use natural photography for my example.
Scene: This setting uses the LLM to define characteristics of building typologies. Im going to use the Villa reference as my sketch is of a residential villa type building.
Mode: this is a really important setting as it tells PromeAI how much or how little creativity to apply. I use the outline mode a lot as I like to retain as much of the sketch as possible and not let PromeAI get too imaginative with the render output.
Design Inspiration and Realisation
PromeAI will render 3 images each time you click generate. It takes roughly 20 seconds and you will see your images display in the same window as well as historical images (up to 30 days) in your thread.
I'm quite happy with these outputs. You can see we controlled the AI creativity fairly well. it hasn't hallucinated or strayed to far from what we asked. there are some aspects and parts of the output that aren't quite correct and that I would like to edit.
a few outputs from my initial hand sketch above and adjusting the settings to develop the right output.
If I hover over the edit button found at the top left of each image I can then choose to further edit the image by using any of PromeAI's other tools. Im going to try the Erase and Replace tool.
In the Erase and Replace window PromeAI will investigate the image and break it into parts I can then select and choose whether to replace, remove, retouch or recolour. Im going to replace the pool water with more timber decking.
The Final Output
After 20 minutes or so replacing, removing and retouching some parts of my image I'm now happy with the final output. Had I done this work in traditional 3D modelling software it could have taken hours. The power of Prome AI is that this could be used as a markup tool from Client back to Architect, or Architect to Architect. I've also removed parts of the building, replaced the canopy roof and other small touch ups using PromeAI's impressive and easy to use toolset.
Transforming Client Interactions
One of the standout features of PromeAI is its ability to foster more efficient client interactions. By quickly converting designs into high-quality visuals, architects can more effectively communicate their ideas and make real-time adjustments based on client feedback. This dynamic interaction helps in fine-tuning designs to better suit client needs, thus enhancing satisfaction and reducing the iteration cycle.
Conclusion
Tools like PromeAI are proving indispensable in the architectural field. They not only simplify and enhance the design process but also open up new possibilities for design and visualisation. By integrating AI into their workflows, architects can now embrace a future where design boundaries are continually expanding, redesign and visualisation is more efficient and design changes are made in minutes not hours which makes PromeAI a game-changer in the industry.
The Generative AI field is still developing quickly and 2D image creation and editing seems to be where the ceiling is right now. Nothing stands still for long and I expect in the near future to see image to 3D mesh capabilities come to market enabling users to pull something useable back into 3D modelling software. There is movement in this space from players such as Nvidia and even stable diffusions ability to run inside Rhino. Im currently exploring these tools and workflows which we will dive into in a future blog post. For now though PromeAI is becoming the go to tool for my 2D image workflows alongside traditional archviz tools like lumion and Enscape.
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