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Completed REX|LAB Studio Colletti Teaching

UE Prototyping / Design Build

Circular Innovations: Designing 3D Printable Sustainable Modular Exhibition Systems

848109 UE Prototyping / Design Build – Bachelor Elective Course – Summer Semester 2025

Teaching: Kilian Bauer w/ REX|LAB & Prof. Marjan Colletti & Tom Kovac

Short Brief: This course challenged students to design and prototype an innovative modular exhibition system that integrates 3D-printed components with upcycled timber. Inspired by the legacy of experimental architectural pavilions, the projects emphasize sustainable design strategies, circular economy principles, and advanced digital fabrication techniques. The … more

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

Completed REX|LAB Studio Colletti Teaching

SE NEW TECHNOLOGIES

Multimateriality in Additive Fabrication – Sustainable 4D Multimaterial Prototypes

848181 SE New Technologies – Master Elective Course – Summer Semester 2024

Teaching: Kilian Bauer w/ REX|LAB

Short Brief: As an important contribution to a sustainable reorientation of the construction industry, additive manufacturing is open to a wide variety of materials and material combinations in order to address aspects of ecological impact in a world of increasing resource shortages. Nevertheless, research
into sustainable materials in large-scale 3D printing is still in … more

Featured REX|LAB Studio Colletti

Quadrifoglio: Gradual Furniture

REX|LAB, 2024

Physical launch 15.04.2024 at the Milan Design Week, Milan 2024


Virtual launch 16.04.2024 of the CityX MVP (Milan Virtual Pavilion) 2024



Introducing the Quadrifoglio collection: a suite of robotically 3D printed stools at the intersection of digital design experimentation, cyclical material innovation, and robotic fabrication. Named after the Italian term for the four-leaf clover, a symbol traditionally associated with good fortune and luck, the Quadrifoglio collection embodies the spirit of innovation and creativity that defines … more

Featured Research REX|LAB Studio Colletti

Postdigital Natures of Planet B

Postdigital Natures of Planet B is a large-scale, robotically 3D-printed 1:1 installation made of recycled plastic and other bespoke biodegradable materials. It proposes artificial-natural, physical-virtual, technological-botanical hybridity as metaphor for a future vision of a more intricate rapport between architecture and nature I the Anthropocene. It does this by exploring ambiguous overlaps and interfaces between the natural, the virtual, and the built environments. The installation was developed for and exhibited at the ARS Electronica Festival 2022 by the PDNB research … more

Research REX|LAB Studio Colletti

Additive Thrones

REX|LAB 2022

“The aim of this seminar was to design and fabricate an intricate and highly ornamental 3d printable throne prototype which is not just pure decor, but also a usable object. The project aligns itself in an ongoing research of robotic 3d printing using thermoplastics as a material system. “

Credits

Teaching: Pavlos Fereos, Eftihis Efthimiou

Fabrication: Kilian Bauer, Julian Edelmann

Design: Julian Edelmann, Charlotte Thorn, Lara Penz

Research REX|LAB Studio Colletti

CoConch • Seamless Digital Materiality

Beitrag zur Ausstellung “Potenziale 3”

REX|LAB, 2021/22

CoConch – Seamless Digital Materiality

CoConch – Seamless Digital Materiality continues the series of robotic experiments started in 2012 focusing on additive processes and the exploration of digital materiality at the REX|LAB of the University of Innsbruck. The installation was 3D-printed on-site in a scale of 1 : 1 during the exhibition period of the Potenzial 3 at the aut in Innsbruck from October 2021 to February 2022. The robot was put into

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Research REX|LAB Studio Colletti

DifferentialGrowthColumn

REX|LAB 2021

UIBK SPRING 2021 Robotic Fabrication Workshop. The workshop focused in computationally designing and digitally fabricating a large-scale prototype structure utilizing robotic 3D printing at REX-LAB facility at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. The participants had the opportunity to engage with robotic fabrication and experiment with computational techniques to produce complex and elaborated results.

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