Mission
The LaborA - physical and virtual modelling laboratory is a university structure that promotes and supports university training and scientific research in project development, representation and communication through physical and virtual models.
LaborA is based on the principle that in university design training, creating physical scale models and experimentation with virtual models is a fundamental cognitive and constructive experience, which supports the design and is preparatory to real construction.
Activity
The laboratory activity consists in educational support to Master programme students and PhD students of the AUIC School.
LaborA provides didactic support in order to create physical and virtual models under the guidance of laboratory tutors, who advise students in the choice of materials and the best construction techniques, also agreeing on the use of laboratory equipment.
- Download and fill in: application form
- Professor signature: ask your teacher to digitally sign the form and send it to labora@polimi.it
- Receive: by e-mail within 24 hours a date for an appointment where you can check your needs and, if necessary, receive advice from tutors
- Access LaborA: the date of the beginning of the work in laboratory and the duration of permanence will be communicated to you during the review meeting
- Download and fill in: application form
- Professor signature: ask your teacher to digitally sign the form and send it to labora@polimi.it
- Receive: by e-mail within 24 hours a date for an appointment where you can check your needs and, if necessary, receive advice from tutors
- Access LaborA: the date of the beginning of the work in laboratory and the duration of permanence will be communicated to you during the review meeting
Spaces and equipment
32 workgroups, up to a maximum of 70 users can simultaneously access the laboratory.
Graduating students whose graduation is scheduled for the first exam date after the laboratory appointment have workstation priority.
If, at the time of the appointment, graduating students already occupied all workstations, the staff will schedule the assignment of the first free workstation according to the assignment calendar.
LaborA makes available for users:
- a classroom with workstations for manual cutting and assembly of physical models and profiled workstations for 3D modelling and processing of point clouds and virtual models.
Spaces accessible only after training:
- drilling lab with wood working machines for cutting and sanding solid wood and foamed plastic sheets;
- CNC lab for cutting: laser, blade and hot wire;
- 3D printing lab equipped with filament printers;
- painting lab
Spaces accessible only to technical staff:
- carpentry and metal lab;
- virtual theatre for the immersive project simulation at 360°;
- holograms lab for project virtual 3D simulation and 3D scanners;
Contacts
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e-mail: labora@polimi.it | telefono: 02 2399 5670
