Name for block matrices where matrix has same structure as blocks

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I have stumbled upon the following matrix

\begin{align} M = \begin{pmatrix} I& A&A\\ A& I &A\\ A&A&I \end{pmatrix}\,, \end{align}

where $I$ is the identity matrix and $A$ is defined as,

\begin{align} A = \begin{pmatrix} 1& a&a\\ a& 1 &a\\ a&a&1 \end{pmatrix}\,, \end{align}

with $a$ being a scalar. The structure of the block matrix $M$ mimics the structure of its blocks $A - I$ was wondering if matrices likes these have a particular name?