The Architectural Computational Design and Construction Cluster (ACDCC) comprises faculty and Ph.D. students whose research domain and design work leverage computational design and digital fabrication processes. Technological and material innovations are directed toward impactful building practices, including resilient infrastructures and an environmentally and socially sustainable built environment. ACDCC teams collaborate with interdisciplinary partners and industries to address societal needs at the material, building, and infrastructural scales.

Digital Architecture Research and Technologies (DART) is a research laboratory within Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, founded in 2019 by Assistant Professor of Architecture Dr. Mania Aghaei Meibodi. DART research streams focus on developing novel computational design, robotic, and 3D printing construction technologies to enable the creation of lightweight structures with sustainable architecture and zero-waste construction.

The Lab for Socio-Material Architectures, led by Associate Professor of Architecture Sean Ahlquist, focuses on experimentation in the synthesis of material structures, spatial tectonics, and human interaction. Research centers on material computation, developing articulated material structures, and modes of design that enable the study of spatial behaviors and human interaction.

By leveraging faculty expertise, funding, and community-based partnerships, faculty pursue research questions and impact-driven projects that address housing affordability, enable equitable community development, and promote sustainable building design and practices.

The Collective for Equitable Housing (CEH) is led by Sharon Harr, Lan Deng, Ellie Abrons, and Meredith Miller, and brings together architecture, urban design, and urban planning faculty at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning to promote housing equity within the state of Michigan and beyond.

Faculty working in Design and Health harness their expertise, innovative thinking, and integrative approaches to design and research to empower the pursuit of global and regional health equity and improved health outcomes. Faculty explore urban design and land-use, housing, wearable devices, furniture, ergonomics, immersive spaces and XR, hospital and care facility design, institutional buildings, and public policy. Partnerships, participatory design, and critical, systematic inquiry guide their work to emphasize holistic approaches that rejuvenate communities and individuals, creating resilient spaces where health and well-being can flourish.

Faculty work with communities and constituencies across the state of Michigan, North America, and around the world to engage, understand, foster dialogue, plan, design, and document water, watershed, stormwater, and coastal resilience, governance, law, and infrastructures.

Taubman College faculty are working to document, co-produce, and mobilize knowledge that strengthens the testing and implementation of different design and policy interventions aimed at reducing the impacts from the interactions between heat and the built environment on health and wellbeing outcomes.

Empathy in Point-Clouds Scan-Lab specializes in cutting-edge LiDAR scanning technology to create detailed surveys and immersive spatial narratives of architecture, environments, and landscapes. The EIPC Scan-Lab is co-directed by Dawn Gilpin and Robert Adams and a cross-disciplinary team of student research assistants and post-graduates.