DEA 6210 - Architectural Robotics

(D-HE, HA-HE, KCM-HE, LAD-HE, SBA-HE)

Fall. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

Permission of instructor required. Enrollment priority given to: DEA, FSAD and MAE majors.

K. Green.

Embedding robotics into the fabric of architecture fosters a more interactive and potentially more intimate relationship between the built environment and us, and represents a new frontier for design, computing, and psychology. Part-seminar, part-lab, this course considers the design, technical, social, ecological, and ethical challenges and opportunities of architectural robotics.

Outcome 1: To understand the design, technological, social, ecological, and ethical challenges and opportunities of architectural robotics, and demonstrate this understanding in written form and presentations.

Outcome 2: To conceptualize and evaluate design alternatives responsive to the challenges and opportunities of an ecosystem that is biological, artificial, and increasingly digital, using a variety of design strategies.

Outcome 3: To demonstrate an ability to iterate, in a working prototype, an architectural robotic artifact at a scale of the Internet of Things, or furniture, or the room or building, or the metropolis.

Outcome 4: To demonstrate the ability to communicate (through, e.g., a video) the motivations for, iterative development of, and expected use of the architectural robotic artifact prototyped, as well as assess its shortcomings.