DEA 6210

Architectural Robotics

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

Embedding robotics into the fabric of the built environment fosters a more interactive and potentially more intimate relationship between the spaces we live in 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.

Enrollment Information REF-F25 Enrollment priority given to: DEA, FSAD and MAE majors.

Fees REF-FA25 60. course fee.

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

Last 4 Terms Offered 2024FA, 2023FA, 2022FA, 2020FA

Learning Outcomes REF-FA25

• To understand the design, technological, social, ecological, and ethical challenges and opportunities of architectural robotics.
• 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 and evaluation strategies.
• To iteratively design an Architectural Robotic room at model scale and demonstrate an ability to do so in class presentations and a video.
• To demonstrate, in a written report, an ability to communicate the motivations for, iterative development of, and expected use of the Architectural Robotic room that was prototyped, as well as assess its shortcomings.

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