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Ministry of Science and Technology Awards Major Grant for METROPOLIS Urban Digital Twin
The Architectural Artificial Intelligence Research Lab has been awarded a major grant from the Ministry of Science and Technology to advance METROPOLIS, an urban digital twin project developed with Tel Aviv.
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Hila David Accepted to DRS 2026 in Edinburgh
We are pleased to share that Hila David has been accepted to the highly competitive DRS 2026 conference in Edinburgh.
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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.
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Can AI Feel Our Spaces? Quantifying Architectural Experience With Visual Language Models
Have you ever wondered why some spaces feel immediately inviting, while others leave us cold or even uneasy? Traditionally, these emotional responses have been difficult to quantify or predict with validated design methods.
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Two papers accepted to CAADRIA 2025 in Tokyo
Two AAIRL Papers Accepted at CAADRIA 2025 in Tokyo
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Urban Renewal AI: We Partner with Green Group for Urban Renewal Innovation
The Architectural AI Research Lab (AAIRL) and Green Group, a leading urban renewal project company in Israel, have established a research agreement focused on AI-supported decision-making for urban renewal at the city level.
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Our Lab Secures Significant Grant for Groundbreaking Urban Renewal Project
Ariel University’s Artificial Intelligence in Architecture Research Lab (AAIRL), under the leadership of Dr. Jonathan Dortheimer, has been awarded a substantial grant from the Ministry of Science and Technology. This funding, set to span over three years, will be instrumental in developing a pioneering machine learning model to predict and evaluate the socio-economic impacts of urban renewal projects across Israel.
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The AAIRL team will be presenting new research at the Israeli Urban Community conference
We are excited to announce that three presentations about the ongoing research have been accepted to The Israeli Urban Studies Community conference in October!
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Meet Charli - Bogotá's Participatory Design Chatbot
The AAIRL has collaborated with MTRL from the Israel Institute of Technology and the Pro Bogota Region, a planning agency from Bogotá, Colombia, to explore how AI technology, specifically large language models (such as ChatGPT), can enhance inclusive design discussions in large-scale urban development endeavors.
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Our Paper has been Accepted to eCAADE!
The AAIRL is so happy to announce that our paper “Think AI-side the Box” has been accepted to the 41st eCAADe conference in Graz, Austria!
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We invite you to a lecture “Mixing Worlds- Mixing Realities” By Dr.-ing. Gerhard Schubert
Imagine a future where architects can design the way they are used to today but get additional expert support from computational systems. Can an integrated digital design assistant support architects while modeling and sketching - assisting them seamlessly like an expert looking over their shoulder?
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Toward a Generative Pipeline for an AR Tour of Contested Heritage Sites
A new conference paper with our partners from the Technion Arc. Eytan Mann and Prof. Aaron Sprecher.
Read MoreNew open-access research paper- Collective Intelligence in Design Crowdsourcing
This study investigates how collective intelligence emerges in crowdsourcing for architectural design. Previous studies have revealed that collective intelligence emerges from the collaboration and can outperform individual intelligence. As design is a highly collaborative practice, collective intelligence plays a vital role in the design process. In this study, we compare the structure of two architectural design crowdsourcing systems using several methods. The results of the analysis suggest that design crowdsourcing systems can give rise to the following three types of collective intelligence:
Read MoreConference presentation “Automating Community Design Conversations in Urban Design using Chatbots and Machine Learning
The conference “The second conference of the Israel Urban Studies Community” will take place on the 27th of October at the Open University campus. I have worked on this project with Nikolas Martelaro, Gerhard Schubert, and Aaron Sprecher. Here is the abstract of my talk:
Read MoreA Novel Crowdsourcing-based Approach for Collaborative Architectural Design
We published a new paper that provides an overview of “Architasker”, a large-scale crowdsourcing approach, platform, and method that enables a collaborative professional architectural design process in collaboration with a community of stakeholders.
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