Modern firms have already integrated AI architecture generators into their design workflows.
These AI-powered tools can significantly enhance creativity, save time, and reduce costs in the early stages of architectural and interior design projects.
They let you quickly experiment with different architectural styles, materials, and layouts, helping visualize concepts and communicate your ideas more effectively with clients.
How to use the AI architecture generator
- Describe the building or space you want the AI to generate.
- Select image dimensions.
- Toggle on the "enhance prompt" switch to have our AI system optimize your description for higher-quality results (recommended).
- Click the "Generate" button.
- Download the result if you like it or generate it again to get a new variation (even without changing your description).
Then, you can share the AI-generated architectural design with your clients for ideas and discussion to help them visualize different design concepts.
Pro tips for generating exceptional architectural designs with AI
How you describe your desired design has a big impact on how the AI-generated design will turn out.
While your descriptions (called "prompts" in the AI lingo) can produce remarkable architectural designs without being lengthy, adding more specifics to your prompts allows greater control over the results opening a greater spectrum of creative possibilities.
We recommend following these three guidelines for improving your results:
- Opt for precise, evocative language and avoid unnecessary words (e.g., choose "enormous" over "large").
- Focus on describing desired elements rather than unwanted ones (e.g., "cloudless sky" is more effective than "sky without clouds").
- Experiment with various prompt formulations and evaluate the outcomes.
What details to include in your prompts:
- Scene type (residential house, coffee shop facade, patio, office interior)
- Image style (3D rendering, illustration, sketch, masterplan)
- Architectural style (industrial, minimalist, midcentury, brutalism)
- Mood (sedate, calm, raucous, energetic)
- Materials (cast iron door, wooden slabs, concrete countertop)
- Textures (oak stack, polished concrete, calacatta gold, sofia marble)
- Colors (be as specific as you need)
- Lighting (ambient, natural, sunrise, dusk, dramatic lighting)
- Landscape and weather (beachfront, downtown Paris, Brooklyn alley)
- Camera settings and angles (canon EOS 5D, Canon EF 85mm f/1. 2L II USM, shallow depth of field, focus on the bed)
- Architect’s name (if you want to draw inspiration from their work)
This article about prompting covers even more tips, specific prompt examples, and AI-generated design examples.
Best AI architecture generators
To put this list together, we tested most of the text-to-image generators currently on the market and picked those that are best for generating photorealistic architectural and interior designs.
Let's have a look.
Midjourney
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Arguably one of the most advanced AI tools for architecture design on the market, Midjourney can prove invaluable in the early conceptualization phase of the project.
The tool generates architectural designs based on user-provided text prompts, offering valuable reference images for projects. You can also upload your existing images and edit them using text descriptions (image prompt feature) or use your own designs to influence the style or aesthetic of images you want Midjourney to generate (reference image feature).
Architects find that Midjourney significantly enhances their creative thinking process.
Midjourney costs $10/month which gets you about 200 image generations a month.
Krea AI
Krea is a multi-purpose design app that can be used as an AI architecture generator and a rendering engine.
It lets you conceptualize new designs using text prompts, enhance existing images, create animations, and more.
Their AI engine can also generate basic floor plans.
Krea offers a free testing plan with limited features and a $10/month plan that gives you more image generation credits.
Playground
This versatile AI image generation app can enhance any architect's and interior designer's workflow thanks to the variety of presets and filters, reference images, mixed image editing, and other features making the early conceptualization phase quicker and more fun.
You can also edit your AI-generated architecture design right in the app using features such as generative fill and AI selective remover.
There's also a community feed where other artists and designers share their work which can be a valuable source of inspiration. You can even copy the exact prompts and settings they used and iterate on them in your design.
Playground's free plan lets you generate up to 50 images a day. To get access to advanced features and be able to create more daily images, you can upgrade to a paid plan starting at $15/month.
Dall-E
Dall-E, OpenAI's text-to-image AI model is an AI architecture generator (among other use cases) that's accessible from the ChatGPT interface.
While it doesn't have any advanced customization settings or editing features like the previously mentioned AI tools, its image-generation capabilities are good enough for exploring different design concepts early in the process.
And if you're already using ChatGPT, you'll be familiar with Dall-E's interface.
Currently, it's only available in a bundled $20/month subscription that also includes the newest ChatGPT model.
Fabrie
Fabrie is a collaborative, versatile app for all kinds of designers and architects.
Their recently launched Imagine feature works great as an architecture AI generator. You can not just generate designs using text prompts but also edit them with Fabrie's built-in tools such as AI enhancer, upscaler, style editor, and more.
Pricing starts at $8 which gets you enough credits to generate a couple hundred designs.
Getfloorplan
Getfloorplan is an AI-powered app that creates realistic 2D and 3D floor plan visualizations based on your uploaded JPG, PNG, or PDF sketches.
This AI floor plan generator also offers a VR mode for creating immersive virtual tours for an even more engaging experience. Most modern virtual reality headsets like Oculus and HTC Vive are supported.
And the results are available in just 24 hours.
The downside is that only 5 interior design styles (Scandinavian, Boho, England, Neutral, and Modern) are available at this point. Hopefully, more will be available in the future.
Getfloorplan costs from $20 to $45 per render depending on the package.
Other ways AI can enhance your architecture design workflow
Generating new designs from text prompts is just one of many use cases of how artificial intelligence can make your design workflow more efficient.
Here are some more ways modern architectural and interior design firms use AI tools in their daily work.
AI CAD rendering
If you have a Sketchup or Archicad model and need it quickly visualized, there are plenty of CAD rendering tools that can help. Just upload your model, describe it with words, and you'll get a photorealistic visualization ready in seconds.
AI sketch rendering
You don't even need a CAD model. AI-based sketch-to-render tools can quickly turn even a hand-drawn design you scribbled during a client meeting into a detailed 3D visualization.
AI floor plan generation
These AI tools can turn your floor plan into a 360° visualization or even a virtual tour in a fraction of the time it takes legacy non-AI software.
AI real estate renovation
Real estate agents can use AI to easily generate different concepts of how a renovated property might look like, thus helping them close more deals.
AI virtual staging
Another use case for realtors is redesigning and filling empty spaces with furniture, making them more attractive to potential buyers. Virtually staged homes sell faster and for higher prices than empty homes.
AI animations and virtual tours
AI software can also turn your uploaded designs into 3D animations and virtual tours without the need for a powerful computer or advanced 3D modeling skills.
AI CAD generation
While still in very early development stages, some AI software tools can generate detailed CAD designs based on just a text description, speeding up your design process further.
AI furniture design
And in case you're working with a furniture manufacturer, you can generate custom furniture designs to make your interior design concepts truly unique.
How to pick the best AI architecture generator for your project
The architectural AI tool stack depends on your goals and project stage.
In general, it's best to start with a creative AI architecture generator such as Midjourney or Playground which is most helpful in the early conceptualization phase of the project. These tools will let you create design ideas in various styles, helping your clients decide on the direction they want to go.
Based on the concepts agreed with the client, you can then create a CAD model and use an AI rendering tool to quickly visualize it and get the final approval from the client.
Benefits of using AI in architecture
There are three main advantages of adding artificial intelligence-based software to your architectural design workflow:
- Higher creativity - AI tools help you generate original concepts you wouldn't come up with yourself.
- Time savings - generating new design concepts and rendering CAD models take mere seconds using AI software. That's unparalleled with traditional non-AI tools.
- Cost reduction - AI rendering tools get you unlimited renders for just $30-$50 a month. Compare that to outsourced rendering, which starts at $250 for a single image.
AI generated architecture is here to stay
Artificial intelligence-based software is already an indispensable part of modern architecture and interior design studios' workflows.
AI architecture generators like Midjourney, Krea, and Playground make the ideation process more efficient, and AI visualization tools like MyArchitectAI, Veras, and LookX save huge amounts of time and money on rendering.
But this is just the beginning.
The underlying AI technology is getting more powerful exponentially and so will the architecture tools using it.
So if you don't want to be left behind, you should implement them into your firm's design workflow now.