Design++ team wins Second Prize at ETH Zurich GenAI Challenge

Congratulations to Wenqian Yang and Anton Savov who have won Second Prize in the Staff Category of the ETH Zurich GenAI Challenge for their Design Demo for the Immersive Design Lab developed at Design++.

20.06.2025

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GenAI Challenge Group Image — From left to right: Patrick Frei, Sarah Gutmann, Tim Fischer, and Dr Claudia Schlegel (1st place, staff category); Hongyuan Zhang (1st place, student category); Wenqian Yang and Dr Anton Savov (2nd place, staff category); Jianzhou Yao (2nd place, student category); Daniel Flück (UTL, jury). Missing from the picture: Dr Johannes Schmitt (2nd place, staff category); Monica Andrea Garcia Otalora (1st place, student category) and two jury members: Dr Alexis Shakas (D-EAPS) and Roman Schurter (ETH Library)

The project "Real-Time Immersive Design with GenAI" invites visitors to interactively position and scale a virtual café within a residential high-rise—simulating not only the visual aesthetics but also acoustic dynamics in real time. Using motion capture and a 72-speaker spatial audio system, paired with generative AI (Stable Diffusion, ControlNet, and ComfyUI), the demo delivers instant, photorealistic feedback without complex 3D modeling.

See the presentation on our external page YouTube channel and read the full article on the ETH Zurich News.

external page Visit the GitHub repostory.