MIT researchers design Heirloom House concrete components to last 1,000 years

Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have unveiled the Heirloom House project, a series of nine structural-concrete components that can be manually rearranged and that are intended to last for 1,000 years.

As part of its ongoing partnership with the R&D department of Mexican building materials company Cemex, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) research studio Matter Design used kinetics and physics to engineer the modular elements.

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