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Charlotte Firth

PhD Candidate
Arts, Design & Architecture
School of Built Environment

Email: c.firth@unsw.edu.au

Supervisors: M. Hank Haeusler, Sami Kara

Charlotte Firth is an associate lecturer in computational design in the School of Built Environment. Charlotte specialises in computational design and robotic fabrication for architecture and construction and is currently leading the robotic fabrication specialisation minor for the Bachelor of Design. Previously Charlotte worked in industry as a designer at Cox Architecture, working on projects such as the Sydney Football Stadium and USYD Engineering Building.

Robotic Fabrication and Large-scale 3D printing for Construction and Architecture. Investigating the design and development of site-specific 3D printed facade panels using alternative construction materials.
  • Firth C; Dunn K; Haeusler MH; Sun Y, (2022), 'Anthropomorphic soft robotic end-effector for use with collaborative robots in the construction industry', Automation in Construction, vol. 138, pp. 104218 - 104218.
  • Reinhardt D; Haeusler MH; London K; Loke L; Feng Y; De Oliveira Barata E; Firth C; Dunn K; Khean N; Fabbri A; Wozniak-O'Connor D; Masuda R, (2020), 'CoBuilt 4.0: Investigating the potential of collaborative robotics for subject matter experts', International Journal of Architectural Computing, vol. 18, pp. 353 - 370.
  • Dunn K; Haeusler MH; Zavoleas Y; Yu D; Undery G; Firth C, (2022), Building Bio- Shelters Using Industry 4.0 Data Driven Hybrid Fabrication Technologies: Techniques for Customisable Complex Artificial Reef Design.
  • C. Firth, K. Dunn, M.H. Haeusler (2020) Design process for a soft flexible palm- improving grasp strength in an anthropomorphic end effector for collaborative robots in construction. L. Werner, D. Koering (Eds.), Anthropologic: Architecture and Fabrication in the cognitive age - Proceedings of the 38th eCAADe Conference, 2, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 16–18 September 2020, pp. 423-432.
  • Reinhardt, D., Haeusler, M., Loke, L., De Oliveira Barata, E., Firth, C., Khean, N., London, K., Feng, Y., Watt, R. (2019). CoBuilt Towards a novel methodology for workflow capture and analysis of carpentry tasks for human-robot collaboration. eCAADe SIGraDi 2019 Architecture in the Age of the 4th Industrial Revolution, Volume 3.
  • Exhibitor; Panel Speaker and Robot Programmer at “SHErobots: Ecologies of Care” Exhibition, TU Delft Library, Netherlands, 2024.
  • Exhibitor at “SHErobots: Tool, Toy, Companion” Exhibition, Tinshed Galleries, 2022.