TY  - JOUR
T1  - Discourse and Architectural Artifact:An AI powered Comparative Analysis Model
TT  - Söylem ve Mimari Ürün: Yapay Zekâ Destekli Karşılaştırmalı Bir Analiz Modeli
AU  - Uyan, Betül
AU  - Seyman Güray, Tayibe
PY  - 2025
DA  - September
Y2  - 2025
DO  - 10.54864/planarch.1680817
JF  - PLANARCH - Design and Planning Research
JO  - PLANARCH
PB  - Ataturk University
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2822-4507
SP  - 223
EP  - 231
VL  - 9
IS  - 2
LA  - en
AB  - The transformation of architectural discourse into tangible design artifacts remains a centralconcern within architectural theory and design research. Historically, social phenomena havecontinuously shaped architectural discourse, which in turn has informed the emergence ofbuilt forms. However, the nature of the relationship between discourse and artifact remainsambiguous. Typically developed during the preliminary design phase, discourse encapsulatesthe intangible values of a project, often articulated through textual and visual media. Designcognition research investigates this transformation, focusing on the interaction between handand mind via sketches, though such studies are limited by the number of iterations they cananalyze. This study explores whether artificial intelligence, specifically text-to-imagegeneration models, can offer a novel approach to evaluating the consistency betweenarchitectural discourse and its resulting artifact. By enabling numerous iterations, theproposed AI-supported method seeks to quantify a fundamentally qualitative research problemin architectural theory. Two case studies were selected based on contrasting discursive andformal characteristics: Rem Koolhaas’s Charette Submission for the Expansion of MoMA, andBrian Cantley’sSyntaxonome. The discourse associated with each architect was input into atext-to-image model to generate visual outputs. These were then compared with the originalartifacts to evaluate the alignment between discourse and design. Results were analyzedthrough quantitative ratios and visual charts, offering a new perspective on the discourse-artifact continuum and highlighting the potential of AI tools in early-stage architectural design.
KW  - Architectural discourse
KW  - generative AI
KW  - human-AI collaboration
KW  - text-to-image
N2  - Mimari söylemin somut bir tasarım ürününe dönüşüm süreci, mimarlık kuramı ve tasarımaraştırmaları açısından her zaman ilgi çekici bir konudur. Tarihsel süreç boyunca toplumsalolgular, mimari söylemi biçimlendirmiş; bu söylem de yapı ürünlerinin ortaya çıkışınıetkilemiştir. Ancak söylem ile tasarım ürünü arasındaki ilişki çoğu zaman belirsizdir. Genellikletasarımın erken aşamalarında geliştirilen söylem, projeye dair soyut değerleri barındırır ve budeğerler metinsel ya da görsel ifadelerle temsil edilir. Tasarım bilişi alanındaki çalışmalar, budönüşüm sürecini el-zihin etkileşimi üzerinden, sınırlı sayıda denemenin yapıldığı kapsamlısüreçlerle incelemektedir. Bu çalışma, yapay zekâ destekli bir metinden-görüntüye modelin,erken tasarım sürecine katkı sağlayıp sağlayamayacağı ve söylem-ürün ilişkisinin sorgulanabilirdoğasına yönelik bir değerlendirme yöntemi sunup sunamayacağı sorusuna odaklanmaktadır.Çok sayıda yineleme yapabilme avantajıyla bu çalışma, söylem ve tasarım ürünü arasındakitutarlılığı test etmeyi amaçlamaktadır. Kuramsal çerçeve oluşturulduktan sonra, söylem veürün ilişkileri bakımından farklı karakterde iki mimar ve yapıtı seçilmiştir: Rem Koolhaas’ınMoMA Genişleme Yarışması için sunduğu öneri ve Brian Cantley’ninSyntaxonomeadlıçalışması. Yapay zekâ modeliyle elde edilen görseller, orijinal tasarımlarla karşılaştırılmış vesöylem-ürün ilişkisi grafiksel ve sayısal oranlarla değerlendirilmiştir. Bu yöntem, mimarlıkkuramında nitel bir sorunsalın nicel olarak ele alınmasına yönelik yeni bir yaklaşımsunmaktadır.
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