“Glass as a structural material kind of breaks people’s brains a little bit,” said researcher Michael Stern in a statement. Stern is founder and director of Evenline, the MIT spinoff that developed the custom 3D printing technology that was used to make the bricks.

Inspired by the sustainable possibilities of circular construction, MIT engineers are creating a new type of reconfigurable masonry using 3D-printed, recycled glass. Leveraging a custom 3D glass printing technology from MIT spinoff Evenline,