Course Graduate Fall 2025
Computational Design Studio
Daniel Cardoso Llach
Design and Computation Research Group (DCRG)
Founded In 2015Led By Daniel Cardoso LlachA research collaborative employing experimental and critical methods to explore the material, technical, and social interplay of design and computation.
How This Connects
8 PEOPLE5 PROJECTS4 PUBLICATIONS1 THESES3 THEMES
Projects
Publications
Robot in the loop: a human-centered approach to contextualizing AI and robotics in construction
Towards Human-Centered Construction Robotics: A Reinforcement Learning-Driven Companion Robot for Contextually Assisting Carpentry Workers
Software Models Design
An Archive of Interfaces: Exploring the Potential of Emulation for Software Research, Pedagogy, and Design
Towards Human-Centered Construction Robotics: A Reinforcement Learning-Driven Companion Robot for Contextually Assisting Carpentry Workers
Software Models Design
An Archive of Interfaces: Exploring the Potential of Emulation for Software Research, Pedagogy, and Design
Work
Book Chapter 2024
Software Models Design
Daniel Cardoso Llach
Are You a Model?: On an Architectural Medium of Spatial Exploration
Research 2022–2025
Rethinking Automation in Construction (ReAC)
Daniel Cardoso Llach
ReAC is a research group at Carnegie Mellon’s Computational Design Laboratory investigating new ways of combining artificial intelligence, robotics, and qualitative research metho…
Design and Computation Research Group (DCRG) Robotics & Fabrication Structural Design & Materials
Journal Article 2024
Robot in the loop: a human-centered approach to contextualizing AI and robotics in construction
Yuning Wu, Emek Erdolu, Jiaying Wei, Daniel Cardoso Llach
Construction Robotics
Research 2023–2025
Deep Time Architectural Data
Daniel Cardoso Llach
This research investigates the long-term archival and interpretation of architectural design data, exploring how computational design artifacts persist, decay, and transform acros…
Situated Computation Lab (SitCodeLab) Design and Computation Research Group (DCRG) Situated Computation & Culture
Journal Article 2021
An Archive of Interfaces: Exploring the Potential of Emulation for Software Research, Pedagogy, and Design
Daniel Cardoso Llach, Emek Erdolu
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Conference Paper 2024
Towards Human-Centered Construction Robotics: A Reinforcement Learning-Driven Companion Robot for Contextually Assisting Carpentry Workers
Yuning Wu, Jiaying Wei, Daniel Cardoso Llach
2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
MS Thesis 2023
Mobile Robot-Assisted Material Handling in Prefabricated Housing Factories
Tingsong Ou
MSCD
Advised by Daniel Cardoso Llach
Research 2017
Experimental Archaeologies of CAD
Daniel Cardoso Llach
Computer-aided design (CAD) software systems are cultural artifacts which have re-structured the work and lived experience of architects, engineers, and other designers. The Exper…
Design and Computation Research Group (DCRG) Computational History & Archaeology