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Image Classification for Robotic Plastering with Convolutional Neural Network

Material characterization of workability and process imaging for robotic concrete finishing

Thermally Informed Robotic Topologies: Profile-3D-Printing for the Robotic Construction of Concrete Panels, Thermally Tuned Through High Resolution Surface Geometry

Robotic concrete surface finishing: a moldless approach to creating thermally tuned surface geometry for architectural building components using Profile-3D-Printing

Reality is interface: Two motion capture case studies of human–machine collaboration in high-skill domains

Joshua Bard is Associate Professor in the School of Architecture. He was named Associate Head for Design Research at the school in 2021. Joshua is an architectural educator conducting applied research at the intersection of construction culture and robotic technology. Joshua’s teaching and research interrogate traditional binaries in design culture (industry/craft, machine/hand, virtual/physical space, digital/analogue production), discovering new potential for contemporary digital tools in the jettisoned logics of hand and material craft. Joshua creates augmented construction and design systems combining the best of human skill, algorithmic translation, and robotic automation. Joshua collaborates with roboticists and computer scientists conducting basic research in human machine interaction and reality computing. He also works with historians, material scientists, and tradespeople immersed in theoretical and tacit knowledge of building construction. The focus of these collaborations is to explore human-machine collaboration in the high-skill domain of the building trades. Joshua teaches undergraduate and graduate architecture studios and instructs seminars in robotic fabrication and computational design.

Joshua is a founding partner of Archolab, an award winning research collaborative finding their bearings at the intersection of architecture’s emerging techno-future(s) and a historically grounded commitment to making. Archolab’s research includes Morphfaux, a project that recovers ancient techniques of applied architectural plaster through the lens of robotic manufacturing, and Spring Back, a reformulation of steam bending using advanced parametric modeling and digital fabrication tools. Archolab’s work has been recognized with Architect Magazine’s R+D Award, an Unbuilt Architecture Citation from the Boston Society of Architects, and a Merit Award from the Canadian Wood Council.

Joshua received his M.Arch with distinction from the University of Michigan where he also served on the faculty and as Director of Taubman College’s Digital Fabrication Laboratory. Joshua holds a BA in literature and philosophy from Wheaton College and has worked for PLY Architecture (Ann Arbor, MI) and M1/DTW (Detroit, MI).

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Architecture comes alive through Carnegie Museum of Art’s new Plaster ReCast augmented reality app

Material Affordance in Robotic Fabrication

Decorative Robotic Plastering: Real-Time Human Machine-Collaboration in High-Skill Domains

Expressive Interactive Surfaces

Tooled Deposition of HighPerformance Building Components for PostProcessing of 3D printed  Architectures

Human Machine Virtuosity: building bridges for accelerated digital-physical iteration

Through Thick and Thin: Recovering the Craft of Architectural Plaster

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Rob|Arch 2014 All Bent Out... Adaptive Fabrication of Bent Wood Assemblies

Copy + Paste: Hall of Architecture – CMU Architecture Students Experiment with Robotics and Plaster (Part 1)

Copy + Paste: Low-Relief Studio on view in Heinz Architectural Center Galleries

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