The HARD and SOFT Experimental Units support the strategic research lines of the Department by providing expertise and equipment for the innovation and digitisation of architectural, technological and performance design in their different dimensions and scales.
The Experimental Units are able to support the construction, testing, maintenance, recovery, energy-environmental upgrading, consolidation, conservation and decommissioning phases of architectural organisms and/or their parts during the whole life cycle of buildings/structures.
Hard Experimental Units
MaBa.SAPERLab
The Lab operates within a multidisciplinary vision of design and construction, carrying out research into the development of innovative technologies, computational design systems...
TAN
The Lab carries out research and development in the field of textile and polymeric materials, exploring their innovative use in architecture and construction...
3DSurvey Group
The Lab operates in the field of Geomatics (topography, photogrammetry and laser scanning). The research activities are focused on surveying and measurement in the field...
GIcarus Lab
Consisting of the sections 'Surveying and Modelling' and 'Surveying and Monitoring', the Lab deals with the surveying and management of multi-scale three-dimensional data...
Energy Lab
The Lab promotes and supports scientific research into innovative energy technologies for buildings. In this field it engages in the development of technological components...
Eidolon
The purpose of the Eidolon Experimental Unit is to identify the most efficient and effective criteria and processes in order to document and investigate ...
Soft Experimental Units
LSPA
The Architectural Design Support Laboratory is primarily a service structure, addressing the needs for IT and tooling support for architectural design activities, research and for all related scientific fields...
L@rs
The great challenge facing Italy is about reducing the negative effects produced by climate change, such as rise of desertification...
PaRID
Since 2006, PaRID has been carrying out research and documentation activities on landscape, in application of the UNESCO Convention...
Indoor Quality Lab
The Lab collects, elaborates and disseminates environmental culture, with regard to issues of well-being, hygiene, health, safety and sustainability in the building sector...
SEED[Lab]
The Lab assesses the performance of building envelope materials and components, mainly dealing with their ability to control...
St.An.Group
The group is made up of professors and researchers from the structural engineering macro sector (Geotechnics, Construction Science and Construction Technique)...
BIMGroup
It is dedicated to the implementation of the BIM methodology in the phases of the building process, with particular reference to the planning and tendering phases...
CON.SI.LAB
It proposes the diffusion of the design culture of the building-civil construction site based upon “on site” applied research, made then available to the scientific, productive and professional community...
Digital@ Construct Lab
The Lab collects and processes data at the service of the construction sector, through the use of digital platforms for transversal and interoperable collaboration between operators in the construction process...
LifeCycleTEAM
The team develops studies and research in relation to the design and management of the built environment, aiming to achieve a unitary vision of the phases of the building process...
REC
The REC is the result of a twenty-year tradition in continuity with the Gesti.Tec. Laboratory, carrying out research, training and consultancy activities within the context of the processes...
Mobile Testing Unit
It is responsible for carrying out supporting diagnostic analysis on existing buildings (historical or contemporary), evaluating material degradation (identification of causes or processes...
Design & Health Lab
The ongoing, and increasingly developing, scientific and technological progress in the health and social care sector (genetic research, predictive medicine, research
Velux Lab
VeluxLab, the first Italian Active House, is a building test facility equipped with experimental sensors, where innovation on sustainability, light and natural ventilation can be taught and easily experienced...
HOME_Lab
HOME_Lab_Innovative Solutions for Student Residences promotes an innovative vision of university accommodation, the services and equipment connected to it...
i-MAS
i-MaS (Innovative MAterials and Systems) offers consultancy activities for the development, experimentation and modeling aimed at the certification of innovative materials...
LIV-EST
The Evaluation and Estimate Laboratory is aimed at research, consultancy and training in the context of characteristic processes of the real estate cycle...
SPORT.SPAZIO.SOCIETÀ
The SPORT.SPAZIO.SOCIETÀ Laboratory is set up as a cell for experimentation and scientific research, in the field of architectural culture, technological design and architectural technology...
STARLAB
STARLAB laboratory will focus on the study of problems dealing with building, architectural and environmental acoustics, with the aim of testing the properties of innovative materials...