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Ilmar Hurkxkens, ETH Zurich / Landskip
Focusing on recent advances in autonomous excavation and digital fabrication technologies, this lecture will question how future landscape topologies can be designed and constructed. Instead of predefined and static modifications of the landscape, robotic systems enable the shaping of terrain using site-specific, dynamic, and open-ended construction processes. By manipulating natural granular material, these processes can then inform the evolution of terrain over time. Here, form and process are equally considered in the investigation of spatial relationships that exist in surface structures traversing urban, infrastructural, and natural landscapes. This lecture posits that by designing new topological rules for forming terrain, a new found natural equilibrium can be constructed between solid and fluid states of matter.
Biography
Ilmar Hurkxkens is a doctoral candidate at the ETH Zurich’s Chair of Landscape Architecture investigating the architectural potential of on-site robotic construction following topological methods in landscape architecture within the NCCR Digital Fabrication. He studied architecture at the Delft University of Technology graduating with an honorable mention in 2009. In 2013 he received the Young Researcher Award at the international conference Thinking the Contemporary Landscape in Herrenhausen, Germany. In 2015, he founded his own firm Studio Ilmar Hurkxkens and co-founded Landskip, a laboratory for landscape transformation. Most recently, he received the 2018 Digital Culture Work Contributions Award of Migros-Kulturprozent with Ungenau Robotics.