Architectural Robotics

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• 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.
• To demonstrate, in a written report, an ability to communicate the motivations for, iterative development of, and expected use of the Architectural Robotic room and/or component of the room that was prototyped, as well as assess its shortcomings.

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