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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

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

Teaching

Postdigital Nature 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

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