Artificial intelligence tells you what your office should look like!
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become one of the buzzwords of the year, appearing in all kinds of contexts. Naturally, the real estate market is no exception, and AI has already made its way into design, including office planning. Based on the analysis of various data, AI can make development recommendations for space layout and the ratio of functions—for example, according to occupancy levels. But there’s still a long way to go!
For now, AI is not yet roaming our everyday lives like an autonomous machine gun, though it may only be a matter of time. In office design, its activity largely depends on access to data and human-defined inputs—in other words, the design goals. AI can consider hundreds of variables to produce plans that best fit a given company and its community of employees. Today, more and more companies are forming teams that work with the outcomes of AI to support their core activities.
This could also be the future path for architecture firms, though at first, only the largest players can invest in it. It is no coincidence that Zaha Hadid Architects has already created such a team in-house, using AI to support workplace design. Among other things, they make redesign recommendations based on occupancy sensor data—imagine rearranging furniture or even relocating a café to a new area based on the information collected.
