Archiplexus Launches AI-Powered Podcast “Redlines by Aleph and Layla”
Archiplexus has launched “Redlines by Aleph and Layla: Under Constant Revision”, a podcast hosted by artificial intelligence
Dubai-based architecture and design practice Archiplexus has launched “Redlines by Aleph and Layla: Under Constant Revision”, a new AI-hosted podcast that uses artificial intelligence as a tool for reflection on architecture, cities, and the lived experience of the built environment.
At a time when Al is often framed around speed, efficiency, and automation, Redlines takes a different approach. The series slows the conversation down and makes design thinking visible through questioning, revision, and responsibility.
Hosted by Aleph and Layla, two artificial intelligence voices developed by Archiplexus, the show explores architecture not as a finished product, but as a process. Aleph approaches topics with structural olarity and analytical precision. Layla brings memory, context, and attention to how spaces are actually lived in. Together, they unpack ideas rather than rushing to conclusions.
Each episode is paired with a long-form essay published on the Archiplexus Substaok. The podoast revisits those texts conversationally, allowing arguments to breathe, digress, and evolve. The format refleots how architectural thinking often unfolds in practice: uncertain at first, shaped through dialogue, and refined over time.
“Redlines is not a podcast about technology,” said Shwan Alhashimi, Founder and Managing Director of Archiplexus. “It is about architecture as a cultural force, and about thinking in public without pretending that ideas arrive fully formed. Al simply allows us to externalise that process in a new way.”
While Al is central to the format, the subject matter remains firmly human: cities, memory, scale, responsibility, and the long-term consequences of design decisions. The series speaks to architects, planners, developers, educators, and culturally engaged listeners in the UAE who recognise that architecture shapes everyday life far beyond drawings and renderings.
