Modulo , a design project by Olivetti Studio

Modulo, teal and orange modules stacked, seen from below Modulo, teal module stacked on an orange one Modulo, printed grid detail of the two modules Modulo, teal and orange modules stacked into a column Modulo, teal module holding books, magazines and rolls of paper Modulo, teal module seen from the front Modulo, teal module holding books beside an orange one Modulo, orange module seen from the front

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Modulo

PERSONAL PROJECTPRODUCT DESIGN3D PRINTING

Modulo is a personal project, designed and produced inside the studio: no client, no brief, only a question we couldn’t put down. We were obsessed with the grid, and with what happens when you extrude one.

The answer is an object that refuses to be one thing. A simple open grid, pulled into a volume: stood one way it shelves books; turned, it holds magazines, bottles, tools; stacked, it starts to build. The logic is the toy brick’s, one shape and endless configurations, carried into a piece of furniture with a symbolic presence of its own.

Modulo is printed in PLA through granule extrusion, the machine drawing the section layer by layer. The process agrees with the form: an extrusion printing an extrusion, structure and surface decided in the same gesture. It was produced as a short series, every piece one of a kind.

With no brief to answer, the project answers the studio instead. One shape, every function: the idea we bring to every client, printed at its smallest scale.