Material Architecture Lab

Material Architecture Lab (M-A-L) is a design and research laboratory based at The Bartlett School of Architecture (B-Pro), University College London. The collaborative describes itself as curious, playful and inquisitive, engineering imagined opportunities and, in its own words, constructing solids out of liquids.

M-A-L works between designing and making, seeking to transform the everyday and the ordinary. Its practice rests on experimental fabrication and purposeful trial and error, with a stated concern for the environmental impact of material extraction and a belief in producing less to do more. The lab treats failure and the unfamiliar as part of its research method, stretching the bounds of material experimentation in architecture rather than chasing finished objects.