Chunlan Wang,M.Arch

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School of Architecture
Georgia Institute of Technology

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Reimagining Chinese Garden Design: An Interactive Approach Using Stable Diffusion

ARCH 7030  Media + Modeling 3
Instructor:Patrick Kastner, PhD
Team:Chunlan Wang,Yichao Shi,Changda Ma,Hang Xu
Period:2024  Fall
Software:Figma/Stable Diffusion/Python

Traditional Chinese gardens possess considerable cultural and aesthetic significance and demonstrate complexity in their architectural expression. The design of landscape architecture that includes Chinese gardens requires extensive expertise. Although AI models such as Stable Diffusion are employed for creating architectural conceptual drawings, there are presently no adequate and controllable tools for generating masterplans for Chinese gardens. This study aims to develop an interactive, user-centered methodology for designing traditional Chinese gardens that integrates a user-friendly interface and dynamic inputs. This project offers a collection of tools, comprising generative AI models and web application interfaces. These tools allow users to input the area proportions of masterplan components, such as pavilions or pavement, to produce a color scheme. They can subsequently employ brushes to modify the layout. Ultimately, these schemes can be used as inputs to render the masterplan by providing text prompts on drawing styles. With the help of this implementation, users were able to create garden designs that were both accurate and aesthetically pleasing.
The drawings provided by Stable Diffusion fail to accurately depict the architectural layout of Chinese gardens.


The overview workflow of the methods.






The pre-processing workflow of the dataset





The flow of Controlnet training




The user interface of the web app for Chinese garden generation.





The user interface of the web app for Chinese garden generation.




The generated masterplans under different colour schemes.

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