Image credit to Ankita Sinha, Nandan Bhusry, Neha Chopra, Priyanka Thakur, Rovina George

62-706 Generative Systems for Design
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), 2024 Spring

Instructor: Jingyang (Leo) Liu
Teaching Assistant: Yujeong Seo

This course provides designers from multiple disciplines with a variety of computational techniques for generating, synthesizing, optimizing, and materializing design alternatives based on custom inputs. The course is project-based and will be organized into three components: design for generation, design for making, and design for interaction. Through lectures, labs, and project work, you will learn the fundamentals of generative systems with creative applications in multiple domains, such as design, fabrication, and spatial computing. Specifically, in each component, we will overview the topics with both historical notes and technical specifications. The primary objective of the course is to foster students with the computational techniques to build generative systems for addressing design challenges. Furthermore, the course aims to equip students with the foundational skills essential for scholarly, research-oriented publications.

48-755 Introduction to Architectural Robotics
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), 2023 Fall

Instructor: Jingyang (Leo) Liu, Joshua Bard

This course provides a practical, hands-on introduction to the application of industrial robotics in architectural and related construction domains. It also provides students with the necessary knowledge and safety protocols to work in the architectural robotics lab at CMU SoA. Through lectures, labs, and project work, students learn the industrial robotic fundamentals of online programming, off-line programming, simulation, end-of-arm-tool (EOT) development, work cell development, and interacting with peripheral sensors.

ARCH 5116: Biosynthetic Robotic Fabrication
Cornell AAP, 2016 Spring

Instructor: Jenny E. Sabin
Teaching Associate: Jingyang (Leo) Liu

Projects In Video Credit to : Paola Cuevas Baez, Xiaoyang Fang, Yue Gu, Natalie Hemlick, Binsi Li, Thanh Nguyen, Xianbin Ni, Helena Rong, Matthew Sokol, Shining Sun, Daniel Tompkins, Xijue Wang

Digital architecture and robotic fabrication studio with an emphasis upon user feedback through handcraft and external bio-inspired datasets and models.
Topics include computational design, embedded system, robotic manipulation and digital fabrication.

ARCH 5116: Digital Ceramics: Clay Tectonics
Cornell AAP, 2017 Spring

Instructor: Jenny E. Sabin
Teaching Associate: Jingyang (Leo) Liu

Project In Video Credit to : David Rosenwasser (B.Arch. '18) and Sonya Mantell (B.Arch. '18)

This studio uses a combination of seminar and workshop formats that integrate generative design strategies and complex phenomena, towards the design, production, and digital fabrication of ceramic component assemblies in the form of screen and facade systems at the architectural scale.
Topics include material research, slip-casting, mold production, glaze science, firing methods, computational design, CNC and robotic manipulation

ARCH 5116: Breathing Architecture
Cornell AAP, 2017 Fall

Instructor: Shawn Rickenbacher
Teaching Assistant: Jingyang (Leo) Liu

Photo Credit to : Getty Image

The studio uses digital, simulation and analog technologies to address the issue of global air quality while simultaneously exploring the resurgence of public infrastructure architectures to reduce energy consumption, remediate environmental degradation and harvest distribute renewable energy.

Topics include generative design, computational fluid dynamics and geometry research.