UE Vertiefung Hochbau: Prototypenbau
Course No.: 848458
Teaching: Lukas Allner, Karolin Schmidbaur, Gonzalo Vaillo
Bucky Flower
(DE) In diesem Seminar knüpfen wir an einen Workshop im Juni 2026 mit der École Nationale Supérieure d‘Architecture Versailles (ENSA) in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Ingenieurbüro Bollinger + Grohmann (Wien / Paris) und unserem Forschungsprojekt Hallforms – Material Agency in Spatial Formations an.
In einem freien Spiel soll in diesem Seminar zwischen der Sicht eines Ingenieurs und eines Architekten eine Neuversion der “Bucky-Domes” von Buckminster Fuller entstehen. Wir fragen … more
REXLAB @ LNF
REXLAB exhibition contribution to the Long Night of Science 2026 (Lange Nacht der Forschung, LNF)
Event Team: Kilian Bauer, Christopher Walch, Samuel Rimml & Lilly Krüger
The exhibited research was supported by the Vice Rectorate for Research (Early Stage Funding, project database number 415733) of the University of Innsbruck. Research Team: Kilian Bauer & Jasmin Zangerle
Photos Credits: Christopher Walch & Kilian Bauer
HALFFORMS HALFWAY
Halfforms — Halfways is a publication documenting the architectural research project Halfforms developed between 2023 and 2025, marking the midpoint of the funded research period. The book brings together the project’s main architectural works, material studies, experimental methods, and theoretical concepts, alongside related teaching formats and pedagogical experiments. Rather than presenting finalized results, the publication reflects the research as an ongoing process, tracing how questions of material agency, design, and construction have evolved through practice-based investigation. By assembling projects, protocols, … more
HALFFORMS HALFWAY
research project, 2023 – 2027
research abstract
The growing scarcity of fossil resources and the global threat of climate change are
putting considerable pressure on architecture, demanding new concepts that go be-
yond the range of established building materials, systems and processes.
Additionally, advanced algorithmic tools in architectural design and fabrication, such
as simulation, machine learning and machine vision, allow designers to cope with
complex materials and geometry, and enable the use of non-standard, transformable
building parts with a complex … more
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
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
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
