By bringing people together within the Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Operations (AECO) industry, and experts from AI-related fields, the Artificial Intelligence in Architecture (AI+A) Salon series hopes to foster productive discussion and explore solutions for leveraging AI technology in AECO by bridging the gap between practice and academic research. This four-part series aims to create archives and, ultimately, publications or whitepapers from these salons to share with the broader public and help push the industry into wider technology adoption.
The second session will be focused on what ‘Environmental Intelligence’ AI can offer the AECO sector. We are aware that computing and AI are escaping the desktop and beginning to become part of the environment itself. This is happening through paradigms like smart buildings and homes, new user experience types, environmental performance optimization, and predictive planning. While this has been happening for some time, new developments in AI are changing the paradigm rapidly. We can now imagine AI technologies that are embedded in the environments around us itself, becoming part of the architectural experience. They have the potential to be continuously learning about occupants’ behaviors and buildings’ performance. Intelligent environments bridge traditional discrete paradigms like space planning, operations, and user experience. And significant questions about cyber-security and privacy must be addressed.
