In the Trace of Water
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Istanbul Museum of Water Civilizations × Işık University · March – June 2026

In the Trace of WaterSpace and Memory · An AI Workshop

Where, and how, does water want to exist in this space?

AI Form Factor wireframe drop · Amine Ouchkour
Student dropAmine OuchkourHeritage · Ecology · Memory Drag · tap

A group of architecture students photographed the visible and invisible traces of water in the museum, trained an AI model on their own concepts, and produced two designs for the same spot by two different routes.

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348
field photographs
32
concepts written by students
16
students

The workshop

The workshop treated water not only as a resource but as an actor that shapes space, carries memory and transforms experience. Observations were combined with AI to develop new spatial proposals.

Research question

At which stage of the design process does AI change the architectural outcome, and how?

Two processes, one spot

Process 1 · AI as analyst

The machine reads, the student designs. A model trained on the students' photographs scores the route photo against the concepts, and the student uses those numbers as input.

Process 2 · AI as generator

The student writes, the machine draws. Three concepts become one design sentence, and a prompt generates an installation on top of a photograph of the real space.

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Research

At which stage of the design process does AI change the architectural outcome, and how?

From field photographs to the students' own concepts, from concepts to a trained model, from the model's scores to a wireframe form: explore the method in diagrams.

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  1. Observation
  2. Concepts
  3. Model
  4. Scoring
  5. Proposal and form