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.