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REX | LAB  REX｜LAB
is a space for realizing ideas. The tools are robotic actuators and the
language is CAD programs and code. Going from idea to tangible object
is always a form of translation, and interpretation. With robotics and
software these processes are very flexible and subject to exploration.
As a medium they both claim universality. Six-axis industrial robots are
universal manipulators. Code is universal expression of everything
calculatable (turing-complete). This paired with their novel nature leaves much to be found, discovered, and realized.
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A post-digital installation within the 'Show Garden' silver medal winner GARDENING WILL SAVE THE WORLD - IKEA & TOM DIXON pavilion* at the 2019 RHS Royal Chelsea Flower Show .
'Terrestrial Reef' is a large, biodegradable 3D print hybridizing natural and synthetic elements such as soil, agar, Reishi mushrooms and robots. Conceived as a fictional 21st century techno-organic garden, it reflects on the often troubled, incompatible, even oppressive binary relationship of the built environment with the natural environment. Terrestrial Reef depicts nature as complex multi-domain ecology, challenging the common cultural association of gardens and parks as mere ‘greenery’. It examines the implications and opportunities in decision-making in a scenario where landscapes would be designed and shaped by artificial intelligence and robots. What aesthetic paradigms would learning machines develop for a hybrid ecosystem of natural and artificial symbionts?
Terrestrial Reef is the second installment of the conceptual ‘anti-garden’ framework of ‘Pahoehoe Beauty’, developed for the 2018 Ars Electronica Festival in Linz.
Credits:
Design: Prof. Dr. Marjan Colletti (UCL, UIBK) and Tiziano Derme (UIBK, MAEID)
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Letzte Aktualisierung ( Samstag, 25. Mai 2019 )
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FrAgile 6 – Pahoehoe Beauty
Marjan Colletti (IT, AT, GB), Daniela Mitterberger (AT), Tiziano Derme (IT, AT), Georg Grasser (AT)
#arselectronica
The trans-disciplinary and post-digital series entitled FrAgility
addresses the fragility/agility of design, technology, materiality,
environment, nature and architecture in the 21st century, and results
from the collaboration of a plethora of disciplines (industry,
craftsmen, material scientists, biologists, couturiers, artists,
engineers…).
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Letzte Aktualisierung ( Mittwoch, 24. Oktober 2018 )
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Vernissage Pics
LIQUID ROCK
PROF. MARJAN COLLETTI, EFTIHIS EFTHIMIOU, GEORG GRASSER,
ALEXANDER KARAIVANOV, JAVIER RUIZ
INSTITUT FÜR EXPERIMENTELLE ARCHITEKTUR, REX/LAB, UNIVERSITÄT INNSBRUCK
THE BARTLETT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, UCL
BAUMIT GMBH
am Samstag, den 20. Jänner 2018
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Wir leben in einer Zeit der Digitalisierung, der Automatisierung, der
künstlichen Intelligenz - der vierten industriellen Revolution. Noch
können wir die Reichweite ihrer Auswirkungen nicht ganz voraussehen;
aber sie wird jeden Bereich des Lebens in einem Tempo, wie es keine
Epoche zuvor vermochte, grundlegend verändern. Diese Entwicklung macht
auch vor Kunst, Architektur und Design nicht halt. Die Ausstellung
Liquid Rock zeigt große Betonelemente, die mit Industrierobotern in
einem innovativen 3D Druckverfahren angefertigt wurden und soll nicht
nur einen Blick in eine spekulative Zukunft skizzieren, sondern zur
Diskussion stellen.
Dauer der Ausstellung: 24. Jänner - 3. März 2018
GALERIE GÖTTLICHER
Steiner Landstr. 88
3500 Krems-Stein
Tel/Fax +43 2732 82962
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http://galerie.goettlicher.at
Öffnungszeiten: Mi - Fr 15 - 18 Uhr, Sa 11 - 13 Uhr (ausgenommen Feiertage) sowie nach Vereinbarung.
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Letzte Aktualisierung ( Freitag, 13. April 2018 )
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FrAgile
3 - Coralloid Cocoons
The installation is part of a series of prototypical ...
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Letzte Aktualisierung ( Montag, 10. Oktober 2016 )
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**NOW** REX|Lab at the Tallin Architecture Biennale TAB main exhibition !
Research Project by
Prof. Marjan Colletti, Kadri Tamre
Cooperation partners:
UIBK , REX|LAB , Exp.Arch,
The Bartlett School of Architecture UCL , Grassmayr
Collaborators:
Lukas Jonathan, Pedja Gavrilovic, Anna Aschberger, Chris Mell, Peter Griebel,
Georg Grasser, Anne Steinkogler, Julia Fleckenstein,
Maryna Shovkoplia
 TAB main exhibition Body Building, curated by Sille Pihlak
and Siim Tuksam, presents an impressive line-up of internationally
renowned architects and researchers, experimenting on the borderline of
architecture, using new materials, cutting edge technology (robotic
fabrication, multi material 3d printing, real time data analyses) and
reaching out to new disciplines (fashion, engineering). The main exhibition is open from 11th September to 11th October
2015 in the Museum of Estonian Architecture, Ahtri 2, Tallinn. Find out
more about the participants and take a peak at the gallery here.
Photo: TonuTunnel
FrAgile 2: Porous Cast
The
installation is part of a series of prototypical (and theoretical) investigations into FrAgility (fragile
+ agile), which explore the synthesis of agile robotic fabrication methods with
fragile materiality. The series includes tests with polyurethane foam, hot melt
glue-gun adhesive, plaster, polyactic lacid PLA, acrylonitrile butadiene
styrene ABS, polycaprolactone PCL, concrete, Stewalin, gel pellets, clay, sand
etc.
FrAgility is a key aspect characterizing all of them -
an implication for openness, dynamism, hybridity, agility and fragility. In
this case a simple technique
of form-carving and casting was combined with gel inlays creating “self-organized” porosity. Porosity adds
additional properties to the resulting prototype, for example thermal
absorption, lightness or allowing environment for other (natural) organisms -
as a synergy between the natural and the artificial.
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Letzte Aktualisierung ( Donnerstag, 15. Oktober 2015 )
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REX|Lab at work
Quaquaversal - Iris van Herpen Spring Collection Show, Paris
Iris van Herpen Paris ss 2016 show, featuring actress Gwendoline Christie, Jolan van der Wiel, Rex|Lab and Marjan Colletti
Collaborators @ REX|LAB:
Pedja Gavrilovic, Pavlos Fereos, Lukas Härtenberger
Full Credits: read more
SS16
QUAQUAVERSAL
For Spring/Summer 2016
Iris Van Herpen explores the powerful confluence of nature and
architecture. Inspired by the living tree bridges in India, the
designer executes a new approach to garment construction, mixing the
techniques of cutting, weaving, folding and growing into a process that
transcends the boundaries of traditional clothes-making.[...]
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Letzte Aktualisierung ( Donnerstag, 15. Oktober 2015 )
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Programme Directors
Pavlos Fereos
Georg Grasser
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Letzte Aktualisierung ( Dienstag, 20. Oktober 2015 )
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REX | LAB 
projekt research report 2017-19 
