Architecture training data. Plans that would pass a plan check.
A generated layout can look finished and still have a stair that lands in a wall. eeko commissions practicing architects and architectural designers to label plans, classify building models, write spatial reasoning items, and critique generated designs, with rights recorded on every drawing and a second architect on every item.
What is architecture training data?
Architecture training data is design material with the architect's understanding attached: a floor plan where every room, wall, door, window, and circulation path carries a label; a BIM model where each element is classified and its properties recorded; a rendering described by style, material, and spatial quality; a generated layout with a written critique explaining why the egress fails and the bedroom has no daylight. The understanding is what the model is buying. The drawing on its own is just pixels or geometry.
Models trained on scraped plan images learn what plans look like and nothing about how buildings work. The results are familiar to anyone who has evaluated them: doors that swing into each other, a corridor that dead-ends at a bathroom, a two-bedroom unit with one window, rooms drawn at a scale no furniture would fit. Each is convincing at a glance and useless to anyone who has sat through a plan check.
eeko's data practice puts architects in the loop at the point where it counts. They label to a written schema, they note which jurisdiction's assumptions apply so a model does not generalize a code it never read, and a second architect checks every item before delivery. It is one field within our AI training data practice, and the natural partner to our 3D and CAD datasets and image datasets.
Architectural data for AI, from plan to critique.
Six lines of work, each scoped by building type, jurisdiction, and format, and proven on a pilot batch. Combine them or order one layer on drawings you already hold.
What a generated plan gets wrong and an architect sees first.
Every one of these passes an image-similarity metric. None would pass a plan check. Our critique rubric is built around this list.
The failures the critique rubric is built on
- No way out — a stair that arrives nowhere, a corridor that dead-ends, travel distances no code would accept.
- Openings that collide — doors swinging into each other, a window into a party wall, a door where a column has to be.
- Rooms without light — a habitable room with no window, or a window that faces a lightwell the model invented.
- Scale that does not work — a kitchen nobody could stand in, a bedroom that fits a bed and nothing else, corridors wider than the rooms.
- Circulation that ignores use — a bathroom entered from the dining room, a bedroom reached through another bedroom.
- Code applied from nowhere — egress and accessibility assumptions that belong to a jurisdiction the brief never mentioned.
Paid remote work for architects, between projects.
The eeko expert network pays architects and designers to annotate, classify, critique, and review. Rate, scope, and deadline are on every job. It is data work, not design services: nothing is stamped.
You do not need every item below. A professional degree plus practice experience is enough to start receiving matching jobs.
- Degree BArch, MArch, or an equivalent professional qualification
- Registration Licensed or registered, for critique and code-related tasks
- Practice Years in residential, commercial, or institutional work
- Tools Fluent in BIM and CAD authoring software
- Specialism Accessibility, housing, healthcare, interiors, or urban design
Written schema or rubric on every job, a second architect on every item, and approved work credited to your account automatically.
- Annotate Rooms, walls, openings, and circulation paths on plans and sections
- Critique Generated layouts for egress, access, daylight, and buildability
- Write Spatial reasoning questions with correct, reasoned answers
- Review Another architect's labels and critiques before delivery
Rights, fingerprints, and review on every drawing.
Drawings and models are creative work with an author. A model trained on them must show where they came from and who agreed.
From a building type to a signed delivery.
Fixed price per accepted item, agreed on the pilot and held for production. Volume starts when your team has reviewed real output against the schema.
Architecture training data questions.
What is architecture training data?
Architecture training data is labeled design material a spatial or generative model learns from and is tested against: floor plans with every room, wall, opening, and circulation path tagged, BIM models with elements classified, renderings described by element and material, and generated layouts critiqued by an architect for whether a person could actually get out of the building. The architect behind the label is what separates it from scraped plan images.
How much does architecture training data cost?
We price per accepted item, and the rate depends on the task and the depth of the label. Tagging rooms on a residential plan costs less than classifying a full BIM model or writing a reasoned critique of a generated hospital layout, and work that needs a registered architect costs more. After scoping we quote a fixed price for a pilot batch, and the same unit price carries into production. Rejected items are not billed.
What kinds of architectural data can you supply?
Annotated floor plans, full drawing sets, BIM and 3D models with classified elements, written critiques of AI-generated designs, spatial reasoning questions with worked answers, and labeled renderings and photographs. Each request is scoped by building type, jurisdiction, scale, and format, then staffed with architects verified in that kind of work. The pilot batch confirms the schema before any volume is agreed.
Who holds the rights to the drawings and models you deliver?
Either the drawings are licensed from the practice or designer who holds the rights, with the licence and consent attached to each file, or they are drawn new by architects in the network for your request under terms stated in the job. Every image gets a perceptual hash and every model a shape fingerprint on intake, embedded metadata is read to confirm human origin, and nothing is scraped from portfolios or planning portals.
Is a license required to join, and how are architects paid?
Not for every job. Plan annotation, element classification, and rendering labels are open to architectural designers who hold a professional degree and have practice experience, while critique and code-dependent tasks generally call for registration. The work is data for AI, not design services, so nothing is stamped. Every job lists its rate, scope, and deadline before you accept it, and approved batches are credited to your account with payouts after identity and tax verification.
Can we license the plans and models exclusively?
Yes. Commissioned drawings, models, labels, and critiques can be licensed to one buyer, with scope, term, and exclusivity written into the agreement before work starts. Images ship as COCO or WebDataset, models in native formats with Parquet or JSON Lines metadata, and every delivery includes Croissant metadata and a signed receipt naming each item by identifier and hash.
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Send the building types, label layers, and volume. A data lead replies inside one business day with a staffing view, a schema outline, and a pilot price. Architects: the application takes ten minutes. No deck. A ranked list.
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