Check out this feature video of ChatGPT designing a room.

Pros:

Chatgpt was able to perform high speed rendering, converting a raw Rhino file into a realistic photographic render, yielding impressive results in lighting and texture. It shortened the rendering pipeline though it lacked “spacial discipline”, placing furniture in the wrong orientation.

Chatgpt was able to amalgamate a given moodboard. The AI successfully performed a style transfer, applying appropriate textures, color palettes and decor while maintaining the structural integrity of the room.

Cons:

Chatgpt was not able to handle perspective shifting, the AI failed to rotate its view of a room accurately, struggling to handle spatial awareness when prompted to change camera angles.

Chatgpt was also not able to convert a 2D floorplan into a 3D render. Though it was able to a high end architectural image with consistent furniture styles, the AI ignored the actual layout, placing the kitchen in the wrong spot and failing to understand the room’s true scale.

Chatgpt was also unable to render a 2D floorplan from an image. Ie. converting from image to CAD. It resulted in a non-functional, abstract mess. The AI could not replicate the mathematical precision required for technical drawing.

I tried my hand at generating an interior design for an office space as well as prompting chatgpt to help me design a skyscraper. Here’s the results.

Chatgpt asked me for more details, giving the model more context for a personalized design. It was able to process the tables and shelves from the image and gave me a description of the current layout of the office space. It then went on to give me suggestions for design. It came up with improve ergonomics, enhance lighting layers, add a constructing texture, personalize without clutter and enhance colour palette.

It then provided me with suggestions for my next step, such as creating a visual render for my design choice. I maxed out my limit for ChatGPT’s free plan, so I can’t show you the results. For further design interactions, you would have to upgrade to ChatGPT Go, at $13 SGD/ month.

I then tried my hand at becoming an architect, with ChatGPT as my assistant. I prompted the AI to design a skyscraper for me. And these are the results.

The AI first asked me to provide it with more context, guiding me through various design questions. It then gave me a preview of a design.

I prompted ChatGPT to create photo-realistic, magazine-quality visual descriptions of key views and it provided me with the following images.

The designs are pretty incredible and it was able to show me various angles of the skyscraper. It also provided a short mood description for each of the photos. This is far from a CAD draft by an architect, but it’s definitely great for generating ideas and brainstorming.

For tech enthusiasts and architects, ChatGPT best functions as a mood setter rather than a precise drafing tool. It is excellent for rapid vibes and aesthetic views, but it still lacks the mathematical precision for structural accuracy. For now architects and interior designers won’t be automated away. Though ChatGPT can help with alot of the manual administration tasks that comes along with design work.