Automated Architecture (AUAR) – ‘our’ for short – is a construction tech startup building a distributed robotic micro-factory network for sustainable, affordable and beautiful timber housing. AUAR offers a different vision for the built environment, where automation is not centralised into large factories but empowers local ecosystems of communities, contractors, architects and developers to build better homes.
AUAR was founded in 2019 by Mollie Claypool, CEO, and Gilles Retsin, CTO & Chief Architect, after working together for over a decade researching how robotics, generative design and AI could radically transform housing and the way we live.
AUAR currently operates in Europe and North America, partnering with home builders and contractors to build the first distributed micro-factory network for sustainable timber housing. AUAR licenses its low CapEx robotic micro-factories and tech stack to a network of existing home builders, enabling them to deliver capital-efficient sustainable homes, at scale. AUAR’s design algorithms can also generate endless design variations adapted to local sites and AUAR’s underlying data model makes all costs and other data known upfront to their clients and manufacturing partners.