Bachelor of Architecture

This track focuses on integrating artificial intelligence into the architectural design process, empowering students to leverage machine learning and AI tools for creating intelligent, data driven designs. Students will delve into generative design algorithms, AI-powered simulations, and performance analysis to develop innovative solutions. Includes topics such as: AI-Driven, Design Tools, Generative Design and Optimization, Performance-Based Design Analytics, Autonomous Building Systems AI for Urban and Environmental Analysis.

Students in the AI in Architecture Track will:

• Understand the fundamentals of AI and ML in the context of architecture and the built environment.
  • Develop proficiency in computational design tools, such as Grasshopper, Rhino, MidJourney, Stable Diffusion, and AI-assisted generative design software.
  • Explore AI-driven building performance analysis, including energy modeling, daylight optimization, and environmental simulations.
  • Leverage AI for urban and smart city planning, analyzing big data, mobility patterns, and sustainability metrics.
  • Use AI in architectural visualization, employing tools for automated rendering, image generation, and augmented reality presentations.
  • Investigate ethical considerations and biases in AI-generated designs, ensuring responsible and human-centered AI integration in architecture.
  • Develop innovative AI-driven workflows to automate design iterations, optimize material usage, and enhance sustainability.

The Robotics in Architecture track examines architecture as an intelligent, interactive, and cyber-physical system, rather than as a recipient of robots used for construction, fabrication, or automation. The focus is on designing architectural elements, spaces, and environments that sense, interpret, and respond to human presence, behavior, and emotion, as well as to environmental conditions. Architecture is approached as a living spatial system—capable of perception, feedback, and adaptation—through the integration of non-humanoid social robotics, human–space interaction, and scalable embodied intelligence. Robotics is treated not as an external tool, but as an embedded design logic that enables spaces to behave, communicate, and evolve as active participants in human experience

Students in the Robotics in Architecture Track will:

• Investigate how robotics transforms architecture into interactive, adaptive, and intelligent spatial systems, rather than focusing on robots as tools for construction or fabrication.
  • Develop design-driven competencies in conceiving responsive architectural elements, spaces, and environments that sense, interpret, and react to human presence and environmental conditions.
  • Apply principles of non-humanoid social robotics, cyber-physical systems, and human–space interaction to architectural design challenges across multiple scales.
  • Engage with topics such as interactive and kinetic architecture, cybernetic design logic, embodied intelligence, human-centered spatial interaction, and scalable robotic architectural systems, positioning robotics as an embedded design medium within architecture itself.