---
_id: '13169'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: "KI.BAU is a project being developed and conducted at the Detmold School of
    Design, part of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Ostwestfalen-Lippe.
    It focuses on researching the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in architectural
    design, modelling, production and management processes, particularly on the communication
    between users, processes and the building itself in various development and life-time
    phases. Hence the research aims to develop new tools and AI-supported process
    chains for the design, production and communication of architecture. This includes
    the training and implementing prototypical machine learning algorithms to autonomously
    evolve and optimize field-specific processes and workflows.\r\nAs mentioned above,
    a critical question KI.BAU explores is how we, as planners, builders and users,
    will communicate with architecture in the future, in its phases of creation and
    use but also beyond. This also involves, besides virtual interfaces, examining
    the physical interaction with a building, its behaviour, responsiveness and adaptation
    to certain conditions. \r\nThe primary goal of the research at KI.BAU is to transform
    architecture into an intelligent, to some degree self-sustaining, self-reflective
    and maybe even evolving ‘ecological system’. This system should be comprehensively
    linked with its creators, users, devices, computers, its (biological) environment
    and networks. Consequently, a building must be viewed as an organism that communicates,
    interacts and adapts to other connected or related organisms and entities.\r\n"
author:
- first_name: Hans
  full_name: Sachs, Hans
  id: '64589'
  last_name: Sachs
citation:
  ama: 'Sachs H. KI.BAU Artificial Intelligence in Architecture. In: Kretzer M, AADR
    – Art Architecture Design Research, eds. <i>Synthetic Realities: New Frontiers
    in AI-Driven Design, Fabrication and Materiality</i>. 1. AADR – Art Architecture
    Design Research; 2024:14.'
  apa: 'Sachs, H. (2024). KI.BAU Artificial Intelligence in Architecture. In M. Kretzer
    &#38; AADR – Art Architecture Design Research (Eds.), <i>Synthetic realities:
    New Frontiers in AI-driven Design, Fabrication and Materiality</i> (1., p. 14).
    AADR – Art Architecture Design Research.'
  bjps: '<b>Sachs H</b> (2024) KI.BAU Artificial Intelligence in Architecture. In
    Kretzer M and AADR – Art Architecture Design Research (eds), <i>Synthetic Realities:
    New Frontiers in AI-Driven Design, Fabrication and Materiality</i>, 1. Baunach:
    AADR – Art Architecture Design Research, p. 14.'
  chicago: 'Sachs, Hans. “KI.BAU Artificial Intelligence in Architecture.” In <i>Synthetic
    Realities: New Frontiers in AI-Driven Design, Fabrication and Materiality</i>,
    edited by Manuel Kretzer and AADR – Art Architecture Design Research, 1., 14.
    Baunach: AADR – Art Architecture Design Research, 2024.'
  chicago-de: 'Sachs, Hans. 2024. KI.BAU Artificial Intelligence in Architecture.
    In: <i>Synthetic realities: New Frontiers in AI-driven Design, Fabrication and
    Materiality</i>, hg. von Manuel Kretzer und AADR – Art Architecture Design Research,
    14. 1. Baunach: AADR – Art Architecture Design Research.'
  din1505-2-1: '<span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Sachs, Hans</span>: KI.BAU
    Artificial Intelligence in Architecture. In: <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Kretzer,
    M.</span> ; <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">AADR – Art Architecture Design
    Research</span> (Hrsg.): <i>Synthetic realities: New Frontiers in AI-driven Design,
    Fabrication and Materiality</i>. 1. Baunach : AADR – Art Architecture Design Research,
    2024, S. 14'
  havard: 'H. Sachs, KI.BAU Artificial Intelligence in Architecture, in: M. Kretzer,
    AADR – Art Architecture Design Research (Eds.), Synthetic Realities: New Frontiers
    in AI-Driven Design, Fabrication and Materiality, 1., AADR – Art Architecture
    Design Research, Baunach, 2024: p. 14.'
  ieee: 'H. Sachs, “KI.BAU Artificial Intelligence in Architecture,” in <i>Synthetic
    realities: New Frontiers in AI-driven Design, Fabrication and Materiality</i>,
    1., M. Kretzer and AADR – Art Architecture Design Research, Eds. Baunach: AADR
    – Art Architecture Design Research, 2024, p. 14.'
  mla: 'Sachs, Hans. “KI.BAU Artificial Intelligence in Architecture.” <i>Synthetic
    Realities: New Frontiers in AI-Driven Design, Fabrication and Materiality</i>,
    edited by Manuel Kretzer and AADR – Art Architecture Design Research, 1., AADR
    – Art Architecture Design Research, 2024, p. 14.'
  short: 'H. Sachs, in: M. Kretzer, AADR – Art Architecture Design Research (Eds.),
    Synthetic Realities: New Frontiers in AI-Driven Design, Fabrication and Materiality,
    1., AADR – Art Architecture Design Research, Baunach, 2024, p. 14.'
  ufg: '<b>Sachs, Hans</b>: KI.BAU Artificial Intelligence in Architecture, in: <i>Kretzer,
    Manuel, AADR – Art Architecture Design Research (Hgg.)</i>: Synthetic realities:
    New Frontiers in AI-driven Design, Fabrication and Materiality, <span style="baseline">1.</span>,
    Baunach 2024,  S. 14.'
  van: 'Sachs H. KI.BAU Artificial Intelligence in Architecture. In: Kretzer M, AADR
    – Art Architecture Design Research, editors. Synthetic realities: New Frontiers
    in AI-driven Design, Fabrication and Materiality. 1. Baunach: AADR – Art Architecture
    Design Research; 2024. p. 14.'
corporate_editor:
- AADR – Art Architecture Design Research
date_created: 2025-09-11T10:50:08Z
date_updated: 2025-10-16T20:54:48Z
department:
- _id: DEP1624
- _id: DEP1055
edition: '1.'
editor:
- first_name: Manuel
  full_name: Kretzer, Manuel
  last_name: Kretzer
jel:
- A31
keyword:
- AI
- Artificial Intelligence
- Architecture
- Build Environment
- Building Construction
- Ecology of Architecture
language:
- iso: eng
page: '14'
place: Baunach
popular_science: '1'
publication: 'Synthetic realities: New Frontiers in AI-driven Design, Fabrication
  and Materiality'
publication_identifier:
  isbn:
  - 978-3887781088
publication_status: published
publisher: AADR – Art Architecture Design Research
related_material:
  link:
  - relation: new_edition
    url: https://aadr.info/product/synthetic-realities/
status: public
title: KI.BAU Artificial Intelligence in Architecture
type: book_chapter
user_id: '64589'
year: '2024'
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