2024-05-21
Architosh Reveals Real-World AI in AEC
Anthony Frausto-Robledo interviewed Skema co-founder and chief technology officer Marty Rozmanith recently to uncover just how Skema employs AI and machine learning.
For 25 years, Architosh has had its finger on the pulse of AEC software. In the recent article, “SKEMA propels architects' workflows with innovative AI”, Architosh founder/editor Anthony Frausto-Robledo applies his domain expertise when he describes how Skema leverages AI in practical ways to help architects win the work faster and increase economic performance for both firm and client.
Here are four of our favorite excerpts from the article:
Knowledge graphs lead to better designs
“Skema turns the BIM data that represents spaces into knowledge graphs. And then the AI analyzes the knowledge graphs. It’s this methodology that keeps the data – and the architect’s IP – separate from the AI. With the architect at the helm... this ability to apply machine learning to knowledge graphs leads to better designs."
Respecting a firm’s designs as intellectual property
Skema uses these Knowledge Graphs to generate the Design Catalog, a firm’s “greatest hits” based on the firm’s previous successful designs. “Skema itself does not learn from these catalogs with an ingesting AI function; the IP, therefore, stays just with the end user and is never available for any other architect.”
Morphing transforms the architect’s role
Because Skema can “change size and shape and yet retain the logic and rules and patterns” of a unitized design element, it “undoubtedly acts as an architectural planner, transforming the architect's role into that of curator and evaluator.“
The time-saving twist of BIM deliverables in minutes
“In another stunning time-saving twist, once the design work is completed at a particular stage and is ready only for further tuning in a BIM authoring solution, then Skema BIM rapidly generates a LOD3X0 level Revit or IFC model.”
