We have taught AI to understand language. We have taught AI to understand images. The next frontier is teaching AI to understand space. SGI — Spatial General Intelligence. Because true intelligence is not only the ability to process information. It is the ability to understand where things exist, how they relate, and how they change through time. Architecture has always been a spatial intelligence problem. A building is not just a collection of walls, floors, and materials. A building is: • movement • atmosphere • emotion • proportion • gravity • memory • human behavior • light and shadow evolving through time Today’s AI can generate the image of a beautiful building. But tomorrow’s SGI will understand why a space feels beautiful. It will recognize that circulation is a choreography of human movement. That fenestrations are a negotiation between interior, climate, and horizon. That a city is a living network of human experiences. The future of architecture will not be about machines obeying designers. It will be about intelligence gaining spatial awareness. AI understands information. AGI aims to understand reasoning. SGI will understand space. And when intelligence finally understands dimensionality, we may stop designing buildings as objects… …and begin designing environments that can learn, adapt, and evolve with us.
