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18/03/2026

A recent concept exploration for a new car showroom on Horton Place. The visual direction focuses strictly on quiet luxury, old money aesthetics, and modern comfort.

Putting these initial ideas together used to take weeks, sometimes months. It required hours buried in design books, days building preliminary SketchUp models, and burning through heavy GPU hours for early renderings just to secure a client. Now, getting to this schematic stage is half a day's work.

This is not to dismiss the traditional process. When it comes to actual design development, I still prefer hand sketching and proper modelling. AI has not replaced the architectural process; it has simply removed the massive time bottleneck from the early schematic phase, changing how we present initial ideas.

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A recent quick concept exploration for a High end Car Showroom on Horton Place, Colombo. The visual direction focuses on verity of themes such as quiet luxury, old money aesthetics, and modern comfort.

Putting these initial ideas together used to take weeks, sometimes months. It required hours buried in design books and Pinterest, days building SketchUp models, and burning through heavy GPU hours for preliminary renderings just to secure a client. Now, getting to this schematic stage is half a day's work.

This is not to dismiss the traditional process, but to highlight how much the workflow has changed. When it comes to actual design development, I still prefer hand sketching and proper modelling. AI has not replaced the core craft; it has simply removed the massive time bottleneck from the early schematic phase.

07/09/2025

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