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Master in Robotics & Advanced Construction

The Master in Robotics and Advanced Construction (MRAC) seeks to train a new generation of interdisciplinary professionals who are capable of facing our growing need for a more sustainable and optimised construction ecosystem. The Master is focused on the emerging design and market opportunities arising from novel robotic and advanced manufacturing systems.

Through a mixture of seminars, workshops, and studio projects, the master programme challenges the traditional processes in the Construction Sector. It investigates how advances in robotics and digital fabrication tools change the way we build and develop processes and design tools for such new production methods.


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WOVEN EARTH: FROM CRAFT TO INTELLIGENT ARCHITECTURE


MRAC-01 2025-2026 by
MRAC-01 2025-2026

A Hybrid Robotic-Human System for Adaptive Woven-Earthen Construction Abstract Woven Earth reinterprets traditional willow weaving and earth construction as a digitally informed architectural system. Drawing from vernacular techniques such as wattle and daub, the project develops a hybrid construction method combining woven willow, variable-thickness cavities, and robotic fabrication. Infill strategies layer light earth and straw … Read more

Material Logic over Machine Efficiency: A Conversation with Manja van de Worp


MRAC-01 2025-2026 by
MRAC-01 2025-2026
Manja van de worp

Manja van de Worp Director, YIP Structural Engineering | Faculty: MAA, MaCAD, MRAC Manja van de Worp is a prominent structural engineer and the Director of YIP Structural Engineering London. With over 15 years of professional experience in the global construction industry, her work specializes in the synergy between structural geometry, advanced fabrication, and emergent … Read more

Software III: Structural Testing with Karamba. Optimizing Our Adaptive Willow Wall System


MRAC-01 2025-2026 by
MRAC-01 2025-2026

As part of our Software III course at IAAC, our team conducted a comprehensive structural analysis on our Willow Protocols system using Karamba, a parametric structural analysis plugin for Grasshopper. The Challenge: Beyond Aesthetics Our Adaptive Willow Wall is designed as a collaborative human-robot woven structure with variable thickness, integrated furniture, and thermal performance. While … Read more

ReWeave_3.0


MRAC-01 2023-2024 by
MRAC-01 2023-2024

Abstract: The ReWeave project develops a robotic system to repurpose construction and demolition (C&D) waste into functional, attractive walls, enhancing human-robot collaboration. We created a database by scanning broken tiles to extract shape, size, and color information, then developed custom nesting algorithms to optimize tile arrangement. The workflow includes scanning tiles, exporting outlines via ROS, … Read more

Discrete Assemblies


MRAC 2022-2023 by
MRAC 2022-2023

Parts that Precede Buildings This course helped us to gain a comprehensive understanding of discrete building systems with the use of prefabrication and automation. During this one week workshop, discussed topics such as timber prefabrication, robotics and discrete computation for later on participating with a hands-on approach to build several structures using timber boxes and … Read more