“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.

Could buildings one day be made from materials that are as easy to take apart as LEGO bricks? A team of engineers at MIT believes so, and they are developing a new kind of reconfigurable masonry made from 3D-printed,

Using a 3D printer that works with molten glass, researchers forged LEGO-like glass bricks with a strength comparable to concrete. The bricks could have a role in circular construction in which materials are used over and over again.

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,