DEA 6210

Architectural Robotics

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2026-2027 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 Priority Priority given to: DEA students.

Fees Course fee, $60. Course fee.

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

Last 4 Terms Offered 2026SP, 2024FA, 2023FA, 2022FA

Learning Outcomes

• To understand the design, technical, 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 digital, using a variety of design and evaluation strategies.
• To iteratively design an Architectural Robotic device, furniture, room, building, and/or metropolitan area, manifested as a physical prototype at model scale (for a room, e.g., 1 ft. = 2 inches), and demonstrate an ability to do so in class presentations and a video.
• To demonstrate understanding, by contributions to a paper, the motivations for, iterative development of, and expected use and shortcomings of the Architectural Robotic artifact.

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