Ilmar
Hurkxkens
Ilmar Hurkxkens is PhD researcher at NCCR Digital Fabrication investigating the architectural potential of robotic landscape 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. He is coordinator of the DesignLab, research associate, and team member of the Landscape Visualization and Modeling Lab at the Chair of Landscape Architecture of Professor Christophe Girot at the ETH Zurich.
Work Topic
Ilmar Hurkxkens explores the architectural potential of on-site robotic construction in terrain. His research is focused on dynamic design methodologies following topological methods in landscape architecture by developing computational terrain modeling tools and experimenting with dynamic construction processes.
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NCCR publications
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Computational Terrain Modeling with Distance Functions for Large Scale Landscape Design (2019)
- Date: 16.05.2019
- Authors: Ilmar Hurkxkens, Mathias Bernhard
- Event: Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture
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Robotic Landscapes: Designing Formation Processes for Large Scale Autonomous Earth Moving (2019)
- Date: 01.01.2019
- Authors: Ilmar Hurkxkens, Mirjan Ammar, Prof. Fabio Gramazio, Prof. Matthias Kohler, Prof. Christophe Girot
- Event: Design Modelling Symposium, Impact: Design with All Senses
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Robotic Landscapes — Nature, Computation, and the Design Space of Autonomous Terrain Modeling (2018)
- Date: 01.06.2018
- Authors: Prof. Christophe Girot, Ilmar Hurkxkens
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Robotic Landscapes. Developing Computational Design Tools towards Autonomous Terrain Modeling (2017)
- Date: 01.01.2017
- Authors: Ilmar Hurkxkens, Prof. Christophe Girot, Prof. Dr. Marco Hutter
- Event: 37th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA)