MTRL – The Material Topology Research Lab (MTRL) is a transdisciplinary research group working in the field of computational design, robotics, and spatial simulation, exploring unique visualization, simulation, and fabrication tools that are changing the way we imagine, make, and inform our physical and cultural environments.

Research

Built Heritage Preservation the Age of Mixed Reality

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Transforming Earths- Designing 3D printable materials for robotic earth architecture

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Thermal and structural performance of cork-cementcomposite for Additive Manufacturing (AM)

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Exploring Robotic Fabrication Using Stimulated Soil

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Stimulated Soil for Continuous Shell Structures

Events

2023 International Conference on Heritage and Affect

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Soils-Trees-Robots

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Crochet Digital Assemblage

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Before It was Digital

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Optimizing 3D Printed Concrete

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Radical Natural

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Into Trees – Points, Planes, Soil

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Evolutionary Development in Architecture

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Computational 3D Crochet Design and Fabrication

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3D Printed Soil Envelopes for Dryland Seedlings

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Thread of Thought

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Robotic Crocheting

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Of Stones and Words

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YONA 2.0 The Reenactment

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Integrating Traditional Knowledge in Urban Design

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TAMC Industry Day 2022

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Editing landscapes

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Machine Learning for Urban Design

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The Flatwriter, YONA, and Beyond

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Design Tools for Earthen Architecture

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A Landscape Analysis of Videogame Levels

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Territorial-Based Robotic Fabrication

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Endurance in Contemporary Jerusalem

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Azrieli Global Studio 2021

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n-Visions: Redefining Perception in Architecture

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Robotic Tools, Native Matter

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Human Sensibility, Robotic Craft

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Adaptive robotic stone carving: Method, tools, and experiments

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Technical Uncertainty: Toward a Sensible Architectural Tool

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Cybernetic Methods for Flexible Architecture

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Autonomous In Craft

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Robotics, Architecture, Environment

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Sensibility at Large

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Introduction to Robotic Fabrication in Architecture

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ROUNDTABLE / EXHIBITION

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Informing Grounds

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Iterative Robotic Fabrication Protocol

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Azrieli Global Studio 2019

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Digital Studio 2019

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Instabilities and Potentialities

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Adaptive Knowledge in Architecture

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Biomimetic Design for Buildings

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From Digital to Physical

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Building without nails

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Approaching Biomimetics

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Engines of Information: Big Data from Small Buildings

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Processing Transdisciplinary Knowledge

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Ecosystems Biomimetics

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Design Through Computation

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Mass Customization System for Prefab Housing

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Dissipative Architecture

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Informationism: Information as Architectural Performance

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Mass Customization in Housing

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Lectures

Informed Architecture

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From Formal to Behavioral Architecture

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N-dimensional Architecture: Notes on Abstract Systems

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Af-fluence In-fluence Con-fluence

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The Hylomorphic Project

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Critical Practice: Protocol for a Fused Technology

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Ecoscape: Architecture as nature

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Dissipative Procedures