AAIRL Wins ISF Grant to Rethink Architectural Design Conversations
We are pleased to announce that our lab has been awarded a grant from the Israel Science Foundation (ISF). This project will support our research on collaboration between humans and AI in architectural design.
The ISF is Israel’s central competitive funding body for basic research. The grant recognizes the scientific potential of studying how designers and AI systems can communicate through text, diagrams, sketches, and other visual modalities.
Our project, “Towards Human-AI Collaboration: An Investigation into Effective Design Communication Modalities Within Chat Interfaces”, studies how designers, architects, and everyday users interact with AI when design problems require both conversation and visual reasoning. At its heart, the project examines the gap between human creativity and AI’s emerging capabilities, particularly in tackling design problems. Design problems are complex, iterative, and involve multiple stakeholders—clients, professionals, and communities. Solutions are often subjective and require nuanced conversation, negotiation, and reflection. Traditional computer approaches can fall short in addressing these richly contextual, visual, and interactive exchanges.
By combining conversational AI and visual communication techniques, our research seeks to make design dialogue more intuitive, accessible, and effective. The project will examine how architects, city planners, and community members can discuss, sketch, and critique design concepts with AI inside familiar chat interfaces.
The coming years promise exciting developments as we share findings, tools, and resources with the academic community, design practitioners, and the public. Stay tuned—there’s much to come!