We cordially invite you to our midreview on the 21st of November with our guest critic Maria Langarita, who will also hold a guest lecture at AUT at 19:00.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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