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The work of Ilmar Hurkxkens focuses on the form and processes of natural granular materials using advanced surveying, modelling, and fabrication techniques. After graduating in architecture with an honourable mention from Delft University of Technology, he worked at the Chair of Landscape Architecture of Professor Christophe Girot, ETH Zurich, where he was DesignLab coordinator and member of the Landscape Visualization and Modeling Lab. He received the Young Researcher Award from the Volkswagen Foundation in 2013 and the Digital Culture Work Grant from the Migros Culture Percentage with Ungenau Robotics in 2018. He is co-founder of LANDSKIP, a laboratory centred on the production and deployment of new technologies for landscape transformation. In 2020 he was nominated for the ETH Medal for his dissertation “Robotic Landscapes” at the NCCR Digital Fabrication after which he completed a postdoc at Gramazio Kohler Research. Part of his research is published in the publication “Robotic Landscapes: Designing the Unfinished” by Park Books in Zurich 2022. Currently he holds a lecturer position at the Master of Science in Landscape Architecture ETH Zurich, is guest lecturer at The Berlage Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture and Urban Design and is head of the cluster Geographic Design at Boskalis.

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Robotic Landscapes— Designing the Unfinished
January 2022 BOOK
Ilmar Hurkxkens, Fujan Fahmi, Ammar Mirjan (eds)
Published by Park Books in Zurich
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Of Crystals and Clouds
January 2022 JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ilmar Hurkxkens
In: OASE 110: The Project of the Soil / De grond van de kwestie
https://www.oasejournal.nl/en/Issues/110
Paysages robotisés : vers un nouvel équilibre
December 2021 JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ilmar Hurkxkens
In: Interface 34. Dimensions Immatérelles. Revue éditée par la FAI. Dec.21
https://www.fai-ge.ch/interface
Robotic embankment: Free-form autonomous formation in terrain with HEAP
June 2021 JOURNAL ARTICLE
Dominic Jud, Ilmar Hurkxkens, Christophe Girot, Marco Hutter
In: Construction Robotics
https://doi.org/10.1007/s41693-021-00061-0
Shifting Sands: Experimental Robotic Earth-Moving Strategies in Dynamic Coastal Environments
May 2021 PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ilmar Hurkxkens, Dave Pigram, and James Melsom
In: JoDLA. Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture
doi:10.14627/537705003
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Ilmar Hurkxkens
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