Month: September 2024

In progress Teaching

SE Weathering Surrogates

Course No.: 848181
Teaching: Andreas Körner

In this technical seminar, students will explore the relationships between digital environmental simulations, digital fabrication, material properties, and weathering as a design factor. The focus lies on the interplay between colour, shape, and thermodynamic parameters. The course aims to develop and apply advanced digital design and fabrication methods that link, program, synchronise, and orchestrate those relationships. The results will be interactive prototypes that act as interfaces between the built and the natural environment and … more

In progress Teaching

E1 Hothouse: Layering Thresholds and Prolonging Seasons

Course No.: 848106 – Group 0
Teaching: Andreas Körner & Jade Bailey

In ‘Hothouse’ (1962), British science fiction author Brian Aldiss envisioned a future Earth as a veritable hothouse where plants filled almost all ecological niches. Inspired by this utopia (!), the studio will investigate architectural notions of greenhouses and conservatories. Rather than conceiving them as functional spaces, we will see them as architectural thresholds between the inside and the outside. In Innsbruck, such extensions on building facades often act … more

Featured In progress Studio Colletti Teaching

E3 Materia Chimera: Smudge and blend – A transcycling studio

Course No.: 848136

Team: Prof. Marjan Colletti | Catalina Tripolt | Peter Massin | Oliver Hamedinger

“The most environmentally benign building is the one that need not be built because it already exists” (Grammenos and Russel, 1997)

“The greenest building… is the one that is already built.” (Elefante, 2007)

Retrofitting, renovation, conversion, modification, alteration, reorganization, upgrading and enhancement of existing buildings are crucial strategies to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in architecture and building construction. However, there are … more

In progress Studio Colletti Teaching

EM1 SILENT STRUCTURES

Course No.: 848155
Teaching: Marjan Colletti, Mümün Keser,

„Silent Structures“ untersucht die Umwandlung von “verlassenen Räumen”, die oft aufgrund veränderter sozialer, wirtschaftlicher oder technologischer Bedingungen ungenutzt geblieben sind. Diese Räume, wie z. B. Lagerhäuser, historische Ruinen und andere vergessene Orte, werden oft als Relikte der Vergangenheit betrachtet. Durch ihre Aufgabe oder Nichtnutzung haben sie ihre ursprüngliche „Identität“, ihren Zweck, ihren Sinn und ihre kulturelle Bedeutung „verloren“.

Das Ziel des „Reviving“-Prozesses ist es, diesen Strukturen neues Leben einzuhauchen und sie in lebendige, neu gestaltete Umgebungen zu … more

Newsflash Postdigital Neobaroque Publication Research REX|LAB

Postdigital Textrin @ eCAADe 2024

Morphology and Ornamentation: Robotic fabrication of a biocomposite relief

Authors: Peter Massin, Kilian Bauer

Acknowledgements:
The design-build case study Postdigital Textrin has been conducted as part of the research project Fragmente postdigitaler Ornamentik, funded by Early-Stage Funding 2022. With support of the Department of Experimental Architecture and the Architekturwerkstatt, Universität Innsbruck. The project’s principal investigators were Peter Massin and Kilian Bauer. The affiliated student workers are Theresa Biesalski, Amy Ehinger, Simon Hildebrand, Christopher Walch, and Lukas Wolf. … more

Postdigital Neobaroque Projects 1:1 Research REX|LAB Studio Colletti

HOPE: Hybrid, Organic, Postplastic Environments

A holistic, ethical, and sustainable approach to home design and living environments

REX|LAB @ Ars Electronica Festival 2024

Team: Marjan Colletti, Kilian Bauer, Catalina Tripolt, Daria Smakhtina, Peter Massin, Andreas Körner, Georg Grasser

Student workers: Simon Hildebrand, Theresa Biesalski, Tobias Niederholzer, Christopher Walch, Anna D´Eredità

‘Postplasticism’ departs from the rigid geometries of Neoplasticism: the austere, geometrical, abstract style labelled by Mondrian one century ago, which focused on strict, geometric forms and primary, applied colours. Postplasticism embraces a more ornate, organic, … more

Publication Research REX|LAB

Surface Articulation as Structural Leverage in Large Scale 3D Printing @ eCAADe 2024

The Additive Hyper-Ornamental Prototypes Trilogy

Authors: Pavlos Fereos, Kilian Bauer, Eftychios-Nicolaos Efthimiou

Acknowledgements: The Additive Hyper-Ornamental Prototypes Trilogy was developed within cooperative computational design and digital fabrication courses at the Universität Innsbruck and the University of Nicosia from the year 2021 to 2024 and received funding from both institutions. The research was conducted with great infrastructural and personnel support of the Robotic Experimentation Lab (REX|LAB), led by Prof. Marjan Colletti at the Universität Innsbruck. Student research assistant … more

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