The workshop mentions 'Reverse Thinking.' How does this approach differ from a standard design workflow?

Instead of starting with a blank page, the "Reverse Thinking" method takes a finished AI visual and deconstructs it back to its origins. This workshop teaches you to analyze the "DNA" of a design to reveal new directions and alternative ideas, allowing you to extract meaningful creative decisions.

I am worried about AI tools feeling disconnected. Will I learn how to combine these different platforms into a smooth process?

This workshop demonstrates how to chain multiple tools together into a flexible pipeline. You will learn to move seamlessly from text to image, to 3D, and finally to animation.

Does this workshop prioritize human design intent?

The methodology places human vision at the center of the process. By learning to "reverse engineer" and refine outputs step-by-step, you learn to guide the machine rather than being led by it

Will this workshop help me create a cohesive project for my portfolio, rather than just isolated images?

The workshop is structured around a complete case study. By the end of the program, participants will have developed skills to create a full project narrative from initial analysis to 3D modeling and final animation.

Will this workshop teach me how to develop my own unique visual style?

By analyzing and deconstructing existing visuals, you will learn to build a personal, flexible pipeline that prioritizes your specific creative vision.

Courses Architectural Design Reverse Engineering with AI

Reverse Engineering with AI

Name: Reverse Engineering with AI
Price: 50.00 EUR
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This workshop uses reverse thinking to turn AI visuals into ideas, sketches, 3D models, and animations.

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Mar 21, 2026

7 Lessons

Beginner

5 hours

Certificate — Learn

English

Unlimited Access

€85.00

€50.00

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Introduction of the workshop:

We see stunning designs created with AI every day, but how do we turn them into our own visual language and stand out from the masses?

In this workshop, we focus on connected AI workflows that move seamlessly from one tool to the next, showing you how to build a personal, flexible pipeline instead of relying on isolated prompts. Using a single AI-generated image as a starting point, we rewind the process: breaking it down, analyzing it, and reconstructing it step by step through an intensive, hands-on AI case study.

This “Reverse Thinking” approach takes the final image back to its possible origins, revealing new directions, alternative ideas, and creative decisions along the way. You’ll learn how to extract meaningful steps that go far beyond prompting, and how to chain different AIs together to develop a complete project and even an entire portfolio from one idea.

Along the way, we introduce new features and unconventional workflows not only from the usual AI tools, but also from emerging platforms and hybrid techniques that can become highly relevant for your next project. The focus is not on a single platform but on creating a connected workflow and placing human vision at the center of the process.

What You’ll Learn?

Build connected AI workflows using Krea Nodes & Realtime Editor

Reverse-engineer images using ChatGPT / Copilot as analytical design tools

Create context boards, styles, and timelapse visuals with Formas

Generate, refine, and train visual assets using Midjourney

Turn AI images into clean, editable 3D models in Rhino

Expand designs through parametric thinking, simulations, and optimization

Develop animations and visual narratives with Morphic & Lumalabs

Enhance and adapt visuals using Adobe Photoshop with AI

Methodology:

From the first idea to moods, sketches, renderings, 3D models, 3D printing, animations, and finally a polished showreel, this workshop guides you through the entire creative pipeline using a hands-on case study. We share the complete workflow we’ve developed to create a project from scratch to finish, making every step transparent and applicable to your own work.

We combine a range of AI tools, including Krea (Nodes & Realtime Editor), Formas (rendering styles, Freeform Studio, and 3D modeling), Midjourney, Morphic, and Lumalabs for animation, alongside Rhino for 3D conversion and optimization, and Autodesk tools for simulation and performance testing. Together, these form a cross-media workflow that bridges concept, design, and production.

For us, it’s not about mastering a single AI. It’s about understanding how tools connect, how workflows evolve, and how human vision and authorship remain at the center of the process, guiding the machine rather than being led by it.

Program:

Introduction to the workshop concept and the “Reverse Thinking” approach
Analysis of a single AI-generated image as the starting point
Reverse-engineering the image back to moods, sketches, and ideas
Creating visual content using connected AI tools (image, video, and animation)
Expansion into parametric design, simulations, and technical refinement
Creation of animations and motion sequences with different camera movements
Compilation of results into a final presentation, showreel, or project output

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Highlights:

Content

Introduction + PAACADEMY Updates (07:38)

Sketching For AI Ideation (27:21)

Architectural Sketches As AI Inputs

This session explores the enduring importance of architectural sketching as the "first intuition" and a direct link between the mind and reality. Highlighting how 2D sketches—even simple black-and-white notations or diagrams—serve as a critical stenographic base for advanced AI and 3D workflows.

Real-Time AI Design Workflows (18:27)

Krea & Photoshop Cross-Platform Workflows

This session demonstrates a high-speed, cross-platform workflow using Krea AI's Realtime editor and Adobe Photoshop to evolve architectural concepts in real-time.

Narrative Architectural AI Workflows (59:23)

From Prompts To Architectural Reality

This session explores advanced methodologies for organizing, refining, and evolving architectural designs across multiple AI platforms.

Multi-Dimensional AI Architectural Workflows (01:00:38)

From AI Prompts To CAD

This session demonstrates the architectural workflow that bridges the gap between AI-generated 2D concepts and professional 3D modeling and CAD documentation.

Automated AI Design Pipelines (58:48)

Node-Based Architectural Workflows

This session details advanced automation and iterative techniques using node-based editors to streamline architectural design.

Reverse Engineering AI Architecture (34:31)

Paradigms In Architectural Workflows

This session concludes the exploration of high-level AI architectural pipelines, focusing on "reverse engineering" design from final render back to technical CAD documentation.

Instructors:

Christopher Noelle

Biography

Chris is a pioneering XR artist who has been shaping the digital art landscape since the mid-1990s. With more than 25 years of experience as a visual artist, he has consistently pushed theboundaries of immersive technology, combining projection art and analog techniques with innovationto create captivating cross-media reality experiences.His work, which is based on a deep understanding of both the digital and physical worlds, inspiresand redefines what is possible in the field of creative thinking by using cross-media art indifferent directions. From motiongraphics to architecture, to street art, to lightpaintingphotography over to animation, film, and VFX, to mapping projection, to AI art, to audiovisualworks and sounddesign, to illustration and graphic design- for him, it´s a full circle.Specialized in working with: Krea, Midjourney, Adobe CS, Formas, Google AI Studio, LumalabsMorphic, Axidraw Penplotter, Udio, and Ableton.

Michael Holze

Biography

Michael Holze is an architect and head of Architecture at Berlin University of Applied Sciences. Since the early 1990s, Professor Michael Holze has been a leading pioneer in the architectural landscape, known for his innovative design and forward-thinking approach. Over his three-decade career, he has made significant contributions to the field, combining functionality with artistic vision. As a professor, he shares his wealth of knowledge and experience, inspiring the next generation of architects to think creatively and responsibly about the built environment in which we live. Specialized in working with: Autodesk, Rhino, Stable Diffusion, ArchiCad, Midjourney, Adobe CS