15:30 rC3 Co-sPaCe

Students: Hanbei Chen,Fan Jiang,Jiaqi Peng,ling Zhang

Design: Tyson Hosmer, Octavian Gheorghiu, Philipp Siedler

Technical: Ziming He, Baris Erdincer, Panagiotis Tigas

Theory: Jordi Vivaldi Piera

CO-SPACE is a platform providing flexible and continuously adaptive spatial solutions for housing and shared community space for members of cooperative organizations. Co-space is developed as an autonomous living architecture system through the co-design of a collaborative ecology of modular assemble robots and reversible blocks. Inspired by termite mounds and ant construction, modular robots incrementally adapt cave like spaces and assemble into collaborative body plans with passive parts for more complex tasks. The project is developed with an adaptive lifecycle operating over multiple timescales, leveraging a spatial planning and constraint solving algorithm linked to a robotic simulator with reinforcement learning to negotiate multi-user private and shared spatial requirements and modify spaces accordingly. The project considers a continuous coexistence between humans and robots enabling constantly evolving copperative communities to form and reform.