Event Description
Architects are increasingly incorporating AI technologies to optimize design processes, enhance decision-making, and elevate overall project performance. AI's capacity to expedite design iterations proves crucial, fostering creative solutions in customizable residential and commercial building designs. Analyzing large datasets enables architects to gain insights into user preferences, market trends, and historical design data, ensuring creations align with diverse user needs. AI simulations play a key role in evaluating and enhancing sustainability aspects, including energy efficiency, daylight utilization, and material optimization, resulting in environmentally conscious designs that minimize energy consumption and costs.
The collaborative potential of AI is harnessed to unite multidisciplinary teams, promoting better communication and a cohesive design process. Proactive risk mitigation, facilitated by AI's analysis of historical data, prevents challenges and project delays. AI-driven cost estimation tools enhance financial resource management by providing reliable projections based on intricate design parameters and historical cost data. The focus on resource efficiency is highlighted as AI maximizes material efficiency, streamlines construction procedures, and optimizes resource allocation, significantly reducing waste and promoting sustainable practices. This proposal underscores AI's transformative role in sustainable architecture, contributing to the ongoing journey of the construction industry towards decarbonization.
Speaker
Sharika Tasnim, Assoc. AIA.
Moderator: Manon Koestoer, AIA, Singapore Country Representative, AIA International
CES: Estimated 1 LU/ HSW for AIA Members
Speaker Bios
Sharika Tasnim is deeply passionate about architecture, fostering a lifelong commitment to the field. Her engagement spans various professional and educational endeavours, taking her across the United States, United Kingdom, Malaysia, and several other countries. For Sharika, architecture stands out as a powerful means of expressing love and concern for humanity. She firmly believes that architecture serves as a profound connection, influencing us across diverse dimensions, including social, structural, and cultural aspects.
Sharika plays an active role as a Committee Member at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), contributing her insights and expertise to the architectural community. Additionally, she serves as a Knowledge Board Committee Member at the American Institute of Architects, further solidifying her commitment to the advancement of architectural knowledge and practices. Through her involvement in these esteemed organizations, Sharika continues to make meaningful contributions to the world of architecture.
Moderator: Manon Sora Koestoer is the Founder and the Principal of Spatiality Studio Pte Ltd, is a registered architect in the US (Texas) since 2004. Graduated from Texas A&M University in 1997 and an NDTV award-winning architect in 2013 for Chaithanya Smaran Project in Bangalore, India.
Focusing on laboratory, life sciences, work spaces and interior projects, Manon is an IFBA certified bio-safety professional and has over 20 years professional experience in architectural practice in United States and Singapore with project ranging from laboratories, data centre, institution, interior design, resort, master planning, high-rise, education and research.
Manon served on the AIA International Board of Directors as the Director for Unassigned Members in 2015-2016. He is the current Country Representative for Singapore, and an officer of the AIA Southeast Asia section since 2023.
