Automated Architecture Ltd (AUAR) – pronounced ‘our’ – is a spinout company of AUAR Labs, a research laboratory based at UCL. We work at the intersection of design, technology and community, developing a fully-integrated housing platform based on a modular timber building product and an automated design and fabrication toolkit comprised of accessible in-house digital design tools, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and robotics. The platform facilitates the delivery of high-quality, affordable housing with local communities and people at the core of the process. Our vision includes the ethical decentralisation of automation, including robotics, into localised, community-led settings.

We are recognised leaders in our areas of work including automation, generative design, AI, design, community. Some of AUAR’s work is in high profile museum collections such as the Centre Pompidou, we have written books and been featured in the press (Wired, BBC, SkyNews, The Guardian, Mashable). In 2019 we wrote a book on the topic of automation in architecture called Robotic Building: Architecture in the Age of Automation. In 2020 we designed and built Block West in partnership with local residents in Knowle West, Bristol and citizen-led digital arts organisation Knowle West Media Centre. Block West has been shortlisted for an AJ Small Projects Award in 2021. 

Our Values

We engage automation to create a more inspiring built environment for all. We advocate for horizontal, participatory and equal social practices in architecture and technology where individual autonomy and freedom, supported in a structure of care, lead to more creative, inspired and empowered people and more just built environments. This embodies a fundamental shift in architecture and technology that is unique to our work, collaborations and projects.