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Ilmar Hurkxkens is head of the Geographic Design cluster at Boskalis and lecturer at the Section Landscape Architecture, Departement of Urbanism at the Delft University of Technology. His work 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 doctoral research is published in the publication “Robotic Landscapes: Designing the Unfinished” by Park Books in Zurich 2022.

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Eroding Terrains: Developing Computational Design Tools for Interactive Site Erosion
May 2023 PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLE
James Melsom, Ilmar Hurkxkens
In: JoDLA. Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture
doi:10.14627/537740030
Of Crystals and Clouds
January 2022 JOURNAL ARTICLE
In: OASE 110: The Project of the Soil / De grond van de kwestie
https://www.oasejournal.nl/en/Issues/110
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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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
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Ilmar Hurkxkens
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