BIODESIGNER, RESEARCHER, COMPUTATIONAL DESIGNER

Natalie Walter is an architectural researcher, acoustician, and computational designer. She currently holds a Master of Science in Architecture (Design Computing), Bachelor of Architecture, and minor in Geography from Penn State. Her research focuses on biomaterials, digital fabrication, and architectural acoustics. Her work has been supported by the American Institute of Architects Upjohn Research Initiative Grant in 2022 and 2023, and in 2022 she was awarded the ARCC King Medal for her master’s work: “Mycelium-Based Composites as Acoustic Architectural Components.”

Natalie is currently an acoustic engineer at WSP USA, where she works to enhance acoustic performance in interior environments. She is also a current member of ForMat Lab, where she investigates the creative processes of making and how fabrication processes are guided by material interactions.

*CV & references available upon request.

Journal Articles

Mohseni, A., Çapunaman, Ö. B., Zamani, A., Walter, N., & Gürsoy, B. (2025). Advanced Sustainable Architectural Acoustics Through Robotic Extrusion-Based Additive Manufacturing (EAM) of Fungal Biomaterials. Applied Sciences, 15(10), 5587. https://doi.org/10.3390/app15105587

Walter, N., Ligler, H., & Gürsoy, B. (2024). The Truchet Tile Grammar: A Generative System for Versatile Tile and Pattern Design. Nexus Network Journal, doi: 10.1007/s00004-024-00779-8

Walter, N. & Gürsoy, B. (2022). A Study on the Sound Absorption Properties of Mycelium-Based Composites Cultivated on Waste Paper-Based Substrates. Biomimetics, 7(3), 100. doi: 10.3390/biomimetics7030100

Conference Proceedings [Refereed]

Çapunaman,O.B., Mohseni, A., Zamani, A., Walter, N., & Gürsoy, B. (2024) Conformal Robotic 3D Printing and Post-fabrication Analysis of Mycelium-based Composites. In Robotic Fabrication in Architecture, Art and Design: Beyond Optimization – Proceedings of the 2024 ROB|ARCH Conference, May 24-25, 2024

Walter, N., Ligler, H., & Gürsoy, B. (2023). From Graphical Treatment of Combinatorics to Tiling Grammars. Nexus Network Journal, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00004-023-00715-2

Walter, N. & Gürsoy, B. (2023). Simulating Acoustic Performance of Mycelium-Based Sound Absorption Panels. In Digital Design Reconsidered - Proceedings of the 41st Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe 2023) - Volume 1, Graz, 20-23 September