Design Projects
2024
Custom LoRA Training for Streetscape Design:
A Gen-AI Workflow for Regional Complete Streets Visualization
This project uses Florida as a case study to develop a workflow that enables urban designers to generate conceptual street design perspectives with a distinct regional and stylistic focus through custom training of a Stable Diffusion Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) model. The workflow includes creating training datasets using ArcGIS CityEngine, Lumion, and Unreal; training the LoRA model; generating images within the Stable Diffusion WebUI; refining images with Photoshop’s generative AI tools; and finally, delivering the visuals to Midjourney for high-quality refinement and alternative production. The final outputs include eye-level street views, roadside plazas, and bird’s-eye views of urban blocks, all presented in a conceptual design style tailored to the Florida region.
Exhibition on UF AI Day (2024)
2023
Concept Render AI Pipeline
This project explores a novel technological approach for landscape architecture design studios, with the goal of developing a new pedagogical workflow that prepares future designers for practice in the AI era. By translating sketch-level 3D models into linework and integrating them into generative AI workflows, the process substantially reduces the time required to produce design perception renderings.
2020
Nature Sound Therapeutic Park
Cenqi Zhu
Advisor: Yi Luo
