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Robots in the architecture<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assistant Professor of Architecture<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Assistant Professor of Architecture Rachel Dickey says she has taught \u201call over the curriculum\u201d since coming to the School of Architecture three years ago, she\u2019s not exaggerating. Second and fourth year undergraduate studios, graduate studios, computational methods \u2013 all of these have been in her schedule. But her Spring 2020 seminar was no doubt the quirkiest: \u201cRobots, Cyborgs, and Architecture.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dickey taught that class first at Cornell University, where she was a visiting professor for the Fall 2019 semester. It represents her self-described fascination with \u201chow technologies are integrated into our environments \u2013 not just as a tool for design\u201d and builds on her previous experiences teaching robotics in Glasgow, Scotland, in the summer of 2018 and in her Fall 2018 computational methods class at UNC Charlotte, which ended with a high-stakes robot runway show and battle in Storrs Salon<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Technology, and \u201chow it affects the way we occupy space,\u201d is a subject of her research, too. In the spring of 2018, Dickey turned Storrs Gallery into \u201ca petri dish\u201d of experimentation with her interactive installation, Air Hugs<\/em>. The \u201cAir Hugs,\u201d 12-foot-long massive mylar balloons that hung from the ceiling, turned the gallery into a \u201csensing environment\u201d that responded to visitors by \u201cinhaling and exhaling,\u201d creating \u201ca socially enveloping brilliance of reflection and light.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"AllotropeMore recently, she led a research team in Allotrope Architecture<\/em>, experimenting with new ways to use Glass Fiber Reinforced Gypsum (GFRG) and new approaches to creating variation out of repetition. The project resulted in the construction of a pavilion outside of the Storrs building, created with GFRG panels fabricated through a process involving CNC milled foam positives which were then used to produce molds with a two-part silicon and fiberglass support shell. Among the research questions was an investigation into indeterminacy in the fabrication process: \u201cHow do we allow for mistakes and imperfections in technology?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This work may seem like far cry from her junior high school project, in which Dickey built an entire site model of an English manor. (\u201cIt was probably really hideous,\u201d she says.) But she says that interest in making things, and in \u201ca crossbreed between science and the art world,\u201d led her to architecture school at Georgia Tech, where she completed undergraduate and graduate degrees in 2011. She stayed in Atlanta following graduation and ended up working at a new design and fabrication studio, Formation Studio, where she helped create large-scale public art works. She returned to school two years later to get a Master of Design Studies degree with a concentration in technology from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dickey says she has found \u201ctremendous support\u201d at UNC Charlotte for her investigations and \u201cinterest in pushing the boundaries.\u201d Her Allotrope Architecture <\/em>project, for example, was funded by a Faculty Research Grant, and her team included the Fabrication Lab staff, graduate students, and undergraduate students. \u201cI\u2019ve had the opportunity to work with incredible students,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And her knowledge of technology and public art has also brought opportunities to shape the public art landscape in Charlotte. She has sat on two commissions with the Arts & Science Council. \u201cIt\u2019s been incredibly meaningful to me to have a voice in that,\u201d she says, \u201cto contribute to the growth of the city.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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