Robotics and Design Lab

The Fall ARCH 8010 focuses exclusively on clay deposition, firing, glazing and assembly logics. This relatively simple robotic extension quickly introduces students to the robotic lab, robot interface and ultimately produces tangible results quickly, yet also highlights the designer’s need to develop designs within geometrical constraints that are tightly related to specific manufacturing processes – in this case, polyhedral space filling, fused polygons and ceramic firing and glazing. Operating through space filling polyhedral geometries enables the designer an enate structural logic of assembly. 

The Spring ARCH 8020 studio engages with robotic fabrication and material production as integral contributors to creative design outcomes, enabling design to operate through the agency of materials and robot systems. Qualitative design character will be curated through the parallel development of custom approaches to conceiving, forming, and manipulating matter. Students will develop design research exploring a creative and critical approach to the manufacturing and design of a prototypical micro-factory warehouse building envelope.