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0:00Welcome to lesson six of the full
0:02course, How to Win Architecture
0:03Competition. In this lesson, we're going
0:05to look at Rayon's integrated AI tools,
0:07[music]
0:07and explore how they can support your
0:09architecture competition workflow. I'll
0:11show you how to generate AI images
0:13[music] in Rayon and discuss how these
0:15could support the early conceptual and
0:17ideation stages of your project or help
0:20strengthen the visual communication of
0:22your competition entry. This is a quick
0:23and efficient addition to your workflow,
0:26allowing you to turn ideas or even
0:27finalized drawings into clear
0:29visualizations within minutes. You're
0:31welcome to follow along with the class
0:33by creating a free Rayon account using
0:35the link below or jumping into the
0:37template from the description.
0:43Okay, welcome to lesson six. In this
0:45lesson, we're going to explore how to
0:47use Real's integrated AI tools to
0:50support the development of your
0:51architectural competition entry um and
0:54assist at multiple stages of of the
0:56design process, especially now how AI
0:58has become so prominent and prevalent
1:00within the industry. It is a fantastic
1:02tool to integrate into your drawing
1:04process. So, architectural competitions
1:06reward innovation, creative thinking,
1:09and forward-looking methodologies, AI
1:11being one of them. And so these
1:13qualities shouldn't only be visible in
1:15the final boards, but should also be
1:17reflected in how you develop your
1:19project. And so using AI will allow you
1:22to work smarter, be more efficient,
1:25explore more ideas more quickly, and
1:27push creative boundaries with
1:28confidence. And that is the way that I
1:31think we should envision AI and the
1:33integration of AI in our workflow is
1:35it's not a replacement of our drawing
1:38process. It is purely a supplementation
1:40and a tool that will help us become more
1:42efficient and think of ideas and and
1:44generate ideas much quicker. So whether
1:47you're working independently or as part
1:49of a team, AI has become an essential
1:51tool for producing more compelling,
1:54polished and innovative competition
1:56submissions. And I'll show you in Rayon
1:59how you can use that as part of your
2:01kind of team's workflow uh when putting
2:04together a competition entry. So Rayon's
2:07AI panel is designed to support
2:10end-to-end workflow. So at the very
2:12early stages in the ideation and the
2:14conceptualization all the way through to
2:16producing some kind of final renders,
2:18some AI generated renders uh as part of
2:21your competition boards which I will
2:23talk through. So you don't need to leave
2:24Rayon in any capacity. Everything is
2:27here ready for you to use all in one
2:29place. And this avoids fragmented
2:31processes and significantly improves
2:33efficiency of course. So, with Rayon's
2:35AI integration, you can generate 3D
2:38axonometric views directly from your
2:40drawings. You can apply visual styles
2:42such as realistic clay or watercolor.
2:45You can prompt accurate material colors
2:47and atmospheres. You can also create
2:49competition ready visuals, including 3D
2:51maps and presentation graphics. And
2:53because this is a competition context,
2:56the outputs won't necessarily always be
2:58highly detailed or fully accurate or
3:01finished uh kind of outputs. Instead,
3:04these tools are best for highlevel
3:06ideiation, exploration, and visual
3:08communication. And so, I'll show you how
3:11to integrate them effectively into your
3:13workflow. So, the tools we're going to
3:14focus on in this lesson are the generate
3:17image, the generate tracing, the
3:20generate product, the stylizing, and the
3:23generate actionometric.
3:25So, let's dive into it. on the left hand
3:27side here you'll see the AI chat which
3:30you can select and that will pop open
3:32this uh tool here. Now you'll see here
3:34that you'll already kind of get some
3:36prompts or some questions um to kind of
3:39help you along the way but to talk you
3:41through it what you have here is
3:42obviously you have a text box where you
3:44can actually ask Rayon directly uh for
3:47your prompts uh and then you can do add
3:49content and tools. So the way that this
3:51works, the way that Rayon AI is set up
3:54is that fundamentally you have two
3:56options. You can either add a file, so
3:59an already uh pre-existing image that
4:01you might have saved or already a
4:03drawing that you've exported out of the
4:04software, or you can add a screenshot.
4:07Now, from my experience, adding the
4:08screenshot is much quicker and efficient
4:10because you can kind of work within your
4:13model canvas and work within the space
4:15um and just kind of take some snips and
4:17images from various drawings or whatever
4:21you're trying to generate. You then have
4:23all your tool options here at the bottom
4:25as I just mentioned the generate image,
4:27generate tracing, generate product,
4:28stylize and create um your axonometric
4:32which is a really I think a really
4:34clever tool to help produce uh some more
4:37kind of communication material for your
4:39your submissions.
4:43And so the first tool I'm going to show
4:44you is going to be generate image. Um
4:47and so [music] what you'll have to do
4:48here is select generate image. and
4:50you'll see that it almost applies to
4:52your prompt. And then if you want to add
4:54the content, you could do add
4:56screenshot. Now, for argument sake,
4:59let's zoom in on a certain element on
5:01our elevation. And let's try and render
5:03it. So, if we just go like this, take a
5:06snip of that zone. And then you'll see
5:08the file is added there. And then I'm
5:10going to prompt it to do create render
5:13of this elevation. So, it's going to
5:16generate the image, apply it to that
5:19screenshot, and then follow the prompt.
5:21Really straightforward. Click send, and
5:23then you'll see that it just goes
5:24through a process of thinking about it,
5:26working it through, generating the
5:27image. And as you can see here, the
5:29image has been generated, which you can
5:30then preview,
5:33which looks pretty compelling. So, it's
5:35obviously converted those hatches that I
5:37have applied. So, the coarse stone and
5:39then the more brick stone applied. um
5:42it's generated that into a more
5:44realistic color palette um also with the
5:47kind of shadows and the trees etc which
5:48is all um quite convincing actually. Um
5:52so then you can you then have two
5:54options here. So you can either then
5:56reuse it um you can download that image,
5:59you can reuse that image for example if
6:01you click that it will come back down
6:03and add it back to your prompts. So for
6:04example, if you want to prompt it
6:06further, you can reuse that or you can
6:09insert image into your canvas and then
6:11it will drop into here. So let's just
6:15pull that down here. And so I think the
6:16way that I want to communicate my
6:18drawings for this competition board is
6:21going to be in a very similar tone to
6:22the elevation sections and plans as
6:25communicated here. So a kind of black
6:26and white um quite a detailed
6:29architectural drawing feel. And so the
6:32render isn't quite working at this
6:34stage. So if I select this image, I can
6:37then do use selected image. I'm then
6:39going to go down to tools. I'm going to
6:40do stylize. And then I'm going to do a
6:42clay model. So this is a really key tool
6:45that you can use to almost take one of
6:47your images or take um a snip of an
6:50elevation or section that you've created
6:52and you can then stylize that into
6:55watercolor, clay model, hand sketch,
6:57render or wireframe. In this case, I'm
6:59going to do a clay model. as you'll see
7:01here. Send that off. And then that will
7:03convert that image, that selected image
7:05into a clay model, which you can see
7:08it's just been generated here. And I
7:11think that looks really great. I think
7:13that looks fantastic. And it the way
7:15that it's kind of embedded into the
7:16landscape as well. Um, and showing the
7:18trees. Yes, it looks kind of snowy. it
7:20looks like that there's kind of snow on
7:22the trees which you can then one thing
7:24that you can do then is once you insert
7:27that image into your canvas
7:30and if just scale that up slightly you
7:32can then actually make some slight edits
7:34to it. So once you select the image you
7:35can head over to the right hand side
7:36here. I very briefly touched upon these
7:38earlier but you could like remove the
7:40background for example to make it all um
7:42a kind of white background but one thing
7:44you can do is you can select the image
7:45go down to filters and then you can
7:47adjust the exposure slightly. You can
7:49adjust the contrast slightly in the
7:51saturation. So, I quite like to make it
7:53black and white. So, I drop the
7:55saturation right down. I'm going to set
7:57the contrast to zero, but I'm going to
7:58make this potentially a touch whiter.
8:03Do 0.02.
8:05And that's actually a really compelling
8:08image that I can now add into uh my
8:11competition board in the next lesson.
8:13And this is really fantastic at an early
8:15stage if you have done a kind of quick
8:17concept sketch and you can't quite
8:19visualize how that would look in three
8:20dimensions or how it would look. If you
8:22start applying some materiality to that,
8:25you can then prompt it in rayon as I've
8:27done here to generate the image. Um, and
8:30that will really be a great way of you
8:32testing your ideas and testing um
8:35different ideas that you you kind of you
8:37kind of have and exploring them in a
8:39realistic tone. And so this is really
8:41quite compelling and I'm I'm happy with
8:43how that's come out there. Now to go to
8:45the next tool, it's going to be generate
8:47tracing. Um so I could even select this
8:50image again. You could use selected
8:53image, go to tools, generate tracing,
8:56and this will essentially then convert
8:58this drawing into a vector drawing. Now
9:01this will really take me back to the
9:03elevation uh that I initially kind of
9:05prompted it to change into a render. But
9:09this is a really handy way of, for
9:10example, if you had a precedent study
9:12that you wanted to add into your
9:14competition board or you had a render
9:16that you've done that you want to then
9:17just kind of add a bit of a style to or
9:19convert into a drawing again, you can
9:21then generate it into a vector image.
9:25Um, so you can then make some changes
9:27and edits to it. For example, here. And
9:29even so, this gives it quite a um kind
9:31of sketchy feel, which is an alternative
9:33style that you could also add and apply
9:34to um your competition boards. For
9:37example, if I wanted to
9:41create a trace of this particular image
9:44here, select use select image, go to
9:47tool, go to generate tracing, which you
9:50can see here generated it into a bit of
9:52a sketch um which as I say handy for
9:56Preston analysis.
9:58Now the next tool is going to be a
10:00generate product. Now, I very touch
10:02briefly touched upon this in lesson
10:04three, I believe, when I was showing you
10:06how you could potentially import some
10:07furniture and turn them into blocks that
10:10you can then apply into your models. And
10:12I'm going to very quickly do another
10:13demonstration of that. And I'm actually
10:15going to test it a little bit further
10:16and choose something that might be quite
10:18complicated to generate. And that's
10:20going to be the Wesley chair. So, I'm
10:22going to just take this image. I'm going
10:24to copy that.
10:27I'm going to paste it in here. Get it
10:29down a touch. Now, what I'm going to do
10:31once again, select use selected image.
10:34And remember, if you already had an
10:35image saved, you could do add files or
10:37you could do add a screenshot. Going to
10:38go to tools and do generate product.
10:40Now, this is going to convert it. Now,
10:42this is still kind of thinking at the
10:44moment, which is why.
10:46And then I'm going to generate that into
10:49a block. Now, because this is quite a
10:51complicated image and obviously quite a
10:53complicated piece of furniture, I'm
10:54actually intrigued to see how they will
10:56pick up on these lines and generate the
10:58block from this particular piece of
11:01furniture. But it's really clever in how
11:04it will now generate a floor plan. So, a
11:07top view, a side view, and a front view
11:10of this particular block. And it will do
11:12this for any type of furniture or any
11:14type of door or window that you want to
11:16import into um the model. it creates a
11:20block out of that generate that image
11:22that you can then um prompt to generate
11:25the product. So, it's a really handy
11:27tool to use if you don't have a
11:29particular furniture um in the block
11:32library. You can find a furniture that
11:34you want to import from a particular
11:36client or from a particular brand or
11:38whatever it might be and it can generate
11:40the block for you and it'll take a
11:42little moment to generate it. As you can
11:44see, it's working it through here. So,
11:45there they've been generated so you can
11:47see. So you can import the block family
11:50and that will import it into the block
11:52library and then you can insert the
11:53block family which you can see down
11:55here. So this is your top view. You can
11:58then go into your side view
12:02and the front view. I think that's
12:04actually really they've done a good job
12:06there of converting that um and the
12:08detailing of the lines work really well.
12:11Now, the next tool, as I very kind of
12:14already touched upon with converting
12:16this image into a clay model, I'm going
12:19to just show you some various other
12:20styles as well. So, we could maybe
12:22stylize this into a watercolor, which
12:24actually is really impressive. And then
12:27if you wanted to, you could prompt that
12:29to maybe change some of the tones of
12:30greens or stone, but I actually think
12:32that works really, really well. Um, you
12:35could either then change that to so if
12:39we wanted to then reuse that image again
12:41and we change that to hand sketch. Works
12:45really well. Very compelling. Um, this
12:48particular is actually really really
12:50nice. So I'm actually going to insert
12:51that image
12:53and we could use that as an option with
12:55our competition boards. And then the
12:58other style options is going to be a
13:01render. I'm going to use a selected
13:03image. I'm intrigued what's going to
13:04happen if I render an already rendered
13:06image. Okay. Wow, that has really
13:08rendered it.
13:10It's very realistic.
13:13That's brilliant. And then the final
13:14style that I will very briefly touch
13:16upon is going to be the wireframe. And
13:18that has come out as kind of expected as
13:21a wireframe. So there the kind of
13:23different options that you have
13:25available for you with the styling. And
13:27you can also once again prompt it um to
13:30potentially do a different style.
13:32Although that will require a bit of
13:34refinement because of course working
13:35with AI always requires a bit of
13:37refinement um and to reprompt and rework
13:40into it. But considering you can just
13:42click a button here and change a style
13:43to a clay model or a sketch, this is
13:46really impressive and it works really
13:48well. Now the final item I'm going to
13:51show you, the final tool is going to be
13:52creating an axonometric.
13:54So this will just create an axonometric
13:56view from a scene floor plan or section.
13:59And I think from my experience working
14:01in this, this works particularly well
14:03when you do a section. So you can get a
14:05bit of a kind of perspective section, an
14:08axonometric perspective, uh section. So
14:10what I'm going to do is I'm going to do
14:11add screenshot
14:13of
14:15this section here. I'm then going to
14:18apply the generate axonometric.
14:21So you can see here that it's thought
14:23about it and it's created an axonometric
14:25view here which is really compelling. I
14:30think it looks it looks really good. It
14:31looks fantastic. Obviously some of the
14:34details it won't be aware of because you
14:36can't see it in the view and so certain
14:38elements will be kind of poking out and
14:41um and extending when they might not be
14:43needing to. Um but I'm going to then use
14:46that view, that image. I'm going to then
14:50create it into a clay model to get
14:52something like this, which I think looks
14:55really great. And we could potentially
14:58then prompt it. Some of the windows look
15:00a bit odd. We could reprompt it to say,
15:03I don't know, edit to full height
15:05windows. Make facade full windows. And
15:08we'll come out the other end with
15:09something like this with the full height
15:11windows across the front here, which
15:13looks a lot more convincing. And you can
15:15see in here they've actually shown some
15:16of the work um workshops and worktops in
15:19there. So yeah, this is a really
15:22brilliant way of turning a bit of a
15:24section or an elevation into an
15:26axonometric just to add some additional
15:29images to your competition boards. Um I
15:32think it comes out really well as a clay
15:33model uh as a kind of clay looking
15:35model. We could even remove some of
15:38those um the line the border. Let's just
15:41do remove border
15:44around image as we won't be needing that
15:48when we put it on the competition boards
15:50to get something like this no border
15:53which we can then add to our competition
15:55boards. I'm going to do a few more of
15:58these and test some of these ideas. So
15:59in the next lesson you will see um a few
16:01that are going to be added to the
16:03presentation board. But as you can see
16:05here, this is a really quick and easy
16:07way. And there's lots of tools that you
16:09can use to generate certain images and
16:12generate certain products or styles or
16:15different types of using drawings that
16:16you want to add to your presentation
16:18boards. Um, obviously with AI, it
16:20requires a bit of reprompting and a bit
16:22of reworking. And so, um, a really great
16:26way of exploring these ideas is to use
16:29images that you already have or
16:31materiality that you want to add to your
16:33certain drawings. For example, we could
16:34even
16:36for argument's sake add a stone finish
16:41to this clay model if we wanted to go
16:44for a rendered look. We could then
16:48insert this image. Add selected. And
16:52let's see what this does. And so, while
16:54this hasn't quite come out as we
16:55anticipated, we didn't want the whole
16:57thing to be covered in stone, but you
16:59get the point in that you could
17:00potentially use um if you're struggling
17:03to prompt uh the AI, you can use
17:05materials as references um to apply a
17:08certain material to your images. This
17:11would be probably particularly useful if
17:12we went all the way back to this
17:14elevation here. If we wanted to add that
17:16specific material to this elevation, we
17:18could always prompt it to do that. And
17:20so you can also adjust tones and
17:22contrast or texture for consistency
17:25across boards. As I've mentioned over
17:26here, you can you can adjust the tones
17:29and exposure um to your images. So when
17:32used thoroughly, AI becomes a really
17:35powerful extension to your design
17:37process. Not a shortcut of course, but a
17:40uh almost like an accelerator to your
17:42creative process, which works I think
17:46fantastically well. And you have lots of
17:48options here in Rayon. So, now we've
17:50explored some AI tools on how you can
17:51generate some images and help you
17:53communicate your ideas. I'm now going to
17:55jump into lesson seven, the final lesson
17:58to talk how we can build our competition
18:00boards and start using some of these
18:02tools and images that we've generated um
18:05as part of our competition [music]
18:06boards. So, I'll catch you in that
18:08lesson.
18:12>> [music]

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