Cas Esbach was one of the first few cool people who picked up the LoRa model training, the AI workflows, the taking-a-photo-of-a-model-then-turn-into-render process back from 2 years ago almost.

So when I was in Netherlands last year, I found him at MVRDV office and understood better about his work.

He now has a new academic role and started his own practice as well.

There is also big possibility, there will be an invite for him to come to Hong Kong as well at the end of this year for a piece of work, stay tuned for that :)

For now, I have invited him for a podcast interview conversation on our recurring MICs, going to be tonight, 8pm HKT. It is going to be candid and super interesting. So, join us!

🔗 Sign up here: https://lu.ma/47e5pt4x

🎤 If you want to hear the last episode where I interviewed Aakash, founder of InspectMind AI, it's here: https://youtu.be/P1ruxEUnrns?si=JH3OLIEWaY-GUXey

If you haven't been living under a rock, you should know that we have a huge thing going on right now which is the ADFA. AI Design Frontier Awards. 

Early Bird is ending really soon, download the brief here: https://www.aalinnovationai.com/adfa-2025-1

'What is in the BIM x AI class that your team is putting together?'

🌶️ We've gotten a lot of enquiries in my inbox since we last launched the course with HKIAI! There might still be some limited seats but we are not sure yet.

⛳ Happy to share some of the curriculum content, if you think the following is helpful, like it, share with someone who is using #BIM and keep in mind that things are changing.

For plug ins we use:

1. Orchid (This one is needed to be installed from GitHub) https://github.com/erfajo/OrchidForDynamo

2. Data-Shapes

3. Archi-lab

4. Bumblebee

5. Clockwork

6. Rhythm

7. LunchBox

Other AIs we include:

- Deepseek Account and Grok3 Account (https://www.deepseek.com/) (https://grok.com)

- ⁠Plans2BIM Account (https://app.plans2bim.com/create-account;res=STARTER)

- ⁠Archmaster.ai Account (https://archmaster.ai/)

Content:

Theory: LLMs & Prompt Engineering

- What is an LLM?

 - Overview of Large Language Models and their role in AI

 - Generative AI, NLP, model capabilities

- Basic Principles of Prompt Engineering

 - Effective prompt design

 - Claude/OpenAI prompt guidance

 - Resources for self-learning

Hands-on Practice: BIM Team Collaboration with Deepseek

- Deepseek Demo

 - Generate report structures using prompt engineering

 - Create O-charts in Mermaid syntax

 - Translate Mermaid diagrams to visuals

- Group Activity

 - Brainstorm workflow areas for Deepseek

 - Share AI-enhanced workflow ideas

Theory: BIM AI Tool Landscape & Demos

- Overview of BIM AI Tools

 - Explanation, application, future outlook of MCP

- Demo Sequence:

 a. Plugin Demo: Introduction to plugin landscape (select plugin for discussion/practice)

 b. Hypar Demo: Overview and demo

 c. Dynamo Demo: Key features and integration

 d. MCP Demo: Concept of AI agents & MCP

 e. Finch Demo: Showcasing Finch’s capabilities

 f. Smart Annotation Demo

 g. InspectMind Demo

Hands-on Practice: Plan2BIM & ArchMaster

- Plan2BIM Live Demo

 - Provide downloadable plan files

 - Step-by-step guided instruction

- ArchMaster Live Demo

 - Supply BIM model for screenshots

 - Step-by-step guided instruction

Hands-on Practice: LLM + Dynamo

- Collaborative Coding Exercise

 - All participants use LLM to generate the same Dynamo script

 - Step-by-step instructions

 - Prompts for LLM interaction

 - Python script walkthrough

 - Final Dynamo workflow screenshots

& there's more

ai #bim #revit #llm

That's it for today, it's a scrappy one but at least you know I'm writing it and not AI - or am I? ;)

Cheers

Adeline