Prototypes and Exhibit

Resulting from the recent integration of the services of the Prototypes Lab and the Exhibits Lab, it is an area dedicated to design, realisation and experimentation in the field of interior and industrial product design. The student in the Laboratory faces both the spatial context of domestic, commercial, exhibition, business and transport spaces, as well as the realisation of models and prototypes for design and industry, without forgetting the artistic sphere. The Laboratory, supporting students and didactic courses, combines traditional craftsmanship and the latest prototyping technologies.

Modelling and prototyping

  • Large area equipped with workstations, including professor and video projection stations
  • Space for full-scale reconstructions (10x10x7 m)
  • Overhead crane for lifting up to 2.5 T
  • Hand tools, power tools and woodworking machinery (disk and belt sanders, belt saws, drill press)

Digital equipment

  • Areas equipped with workstations, including professor and video projection stations
  • 3D printer area with 2 Formlabs (resin), 3 Deltawasp, 4 Ultimaker U3, 1 Ultimaker S5
Hand tools, power tools and machinery for wood and plastic processing, disk and belt sanders, band saws, drill presses
  • Metal cutting and welding room
  • Roland milling cutter with automatic tool change (30x40x30 cm)
  • Cobot UR Robots U10 - Anthropomorphic robotic arm 7 degrees of freedom
  • IdeA area for IOT prototyping
  • Laser machines for cutting and marking small and large formats
  • Blade cutting machines

Teaching and business services

  • Teaching support for students and professors
  • Supporting researchers, research fellows and PhD students in experimental research projects
  • Consulting activities for companies and external parties
  • Design and creation of architectural and urban planning models, models and prototypes
  • Design, consultancy, construction management and realisation of installations for exhibitions, organisations and conferences, works of art, sculptures and art installations.
  • Workshops and specialised courses

Access the lab

Access to the Laboratory is subject to passing the Safety Course for Access to the Department of Design's Laboratories available in the Online Services in the Data/Safety Courses section.

Video tutorial

Band Saw

Hot Wire

Fretsaw

Pedestral drill

Disc sander

Belt sander