An AI-generated shell-like house on the sea floor

An architect who has built on bedrock, reading what AI dreams.

岩盤の上に家を建ててきた建築士が、AIの見る夢を読む。

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The Mirror That Does Not Hesitate

AIの画像は、人間の欲望をためらわずに映す鏡だ

AI images are a mirror that shows human desire without hesitation. Waste, danger, life outside the law: the AI draws them all, and still guarantees a certain level of taste.

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Reading

A waterfall through the living room

The AI put a waterfall inside a house on a cliff. Here is what an architect who has built on cliffs sees in it.

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Works — rooms

Undersea海底建築 Ball Houseボールハウス On the Cliff崖・斜面の家 Fluid Architecture曲線・有機的 Zaha genesザハの遺伝子 Deconstruction脱構築
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Built

Before the AI, I built on bedrock.

AIの画像を読む前に、崖地や斜面に家を建ててきた。

崖地の家 変形敷地 住宅 斜面 設計
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About

In 1990 a single CG perspective took me a week. After eight years at Itsuko Hasegawa's studio, I designed and built about a hundred houses on cliffs, slopes and odd-shaped plots in Japan. Now an AI draws a building in thirty seconds, and I read what it draws as an architect.

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設計ノート(日本語):収納・窓・階段・照明など、住宅設計の記事 →