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OPENCALL | Greenfield Residency 2026

Vertico is excited to announce the third edition of the Greenfield Residency, our annual Open Call for academic institutions looking to bring innovative research and design projects into physical reality.

The residency was created to provide students with access to technologies they may not normally have the opportunity to use. Selected teams will spend a week at our facility in Eindhoven, working directly with industrial robotic systems and gaining hands-on experience in advanced manufacturing.

While many projects make use of our 3D concrete printing technology, the residency is not limited to concrete. We welcome proposals that explore robotic fabrication in a broader sense. If your project requires robotics, we would love to hear about it.

Previous winners include the Responsive Ground Research Lab from Gebze Teknik Topluluğu Gebze Technical University and Işık Üniversitesi Isik University. The quality of submissions has been so high that two additional teams from German International University - giuberlin in Berlin and Woodbury University Woodbury University also went on to complete smaller residencies with Vertico.

Our goal remains simple: to open our workshop to ambitious students, researchers, and educators, creating opportunities for innovation, learning, experimentation, and collaboration.

Registration deadline: July 26th, 2026 (max 500 word statement)
Production week: First week of November 2026 (flexible)
Detailed information is available via the link in the profile description

Septa Chair | Up Close

A closer look at the Septa Chair, designed by Etcetera and exhibited at Milan Design week 2026.

With its flowing geometry and layered color transitions, the Septa Chair is a reminder that concrete doesn’t always have to look like concrete.

What makes the piece particularly interesting is the way the printing process becomes part of the design itself. The toolpaths remain visible, revealing how the geometry was built layer by layer and giving the surface a distinct character that would be difficult to achieve through traditional manufacturing.

A project where furniture design, material experimentation, and robotic fabrication come together.

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Ancient Forms Through Robotic Printing | Paris Exhibition

The exhibition “Digital Memories – Transformations” by artist remains open in Paris until July 27 as part of the cultural program of Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the EU 2026.

Installed in the Faubourg Saint Honoré district, directly in front of Notre Dame de l’Assomption, the sculptures bring together references to ancient Greek sculpture with contemporary digital fabrication.

At Vertico, we produced the pieces in concrete using robotic 3D printing. Watching the sculptures slowly appear layer by layer was unlike any print we had done before. The faces gradually emerged through smooth curves and soft transitions, while the printed layers created a texture that feels both ancient and digital at the same time.

The exhibition explores how memory and historical imagery can be transformed through modern technologies, placing classical forms into a completely new material and visual context.

📍 Notre Dame de l’Assomption, Paris
📅 Open until July 27

Integrated Cladding | Featured at

Earlier this year, we welcomed students from German International University and Prof. Giovanni Betti to Eindhoven to explore a new approach to integrated cladding in 3D concrete printing.

Together, we developed and fabricated a full-scale prototype that combines 3D printed concrete with aluminum shingles embedded directly during the printing process. The project investigates how cladding, weather protection, and structure can become part of a single fabrication workflow.

We’re excited to see the project now featured at BERLIN DESIGN WEEK, where visitors can explore the research, development process, clay prototypes, and fabrication journey behind the pavilion.

A great example of how collaboration between academia and industry can turn experimental ideas into full-scale prototypes.

📍 7th floor
📅 Berlin Design Week | May 28–31, 2026

Shaping Structure | Prototyping Through Printing

Prototyping for a larger design in collaboration with &
Originally developed through HKS | LINE research at the intersection of regenerative and computational design, and a Biodigital Making course taught by at Woodbury University, the project explores how 3D printing can enable biointegrative, interconnected geometries and bioreceptive textures that support a variety of plant species within the built environment.

Evoking three-dimensional textile articulations such as smocking and pleating, the living wall folds inward to create pods of varying scales, vertically connected through recessed channels designed to transport water and nutrients. From the front, the wall reads as a rhythmic, almost symmetrical composition, while the side profile becomes more expressive, revealing the depth and variation of the organic geometries. The layering of the living wall creates natural shadow lines between elements, emphasizing the stratified printing texture and introducing a sense of movement across the surface.

This prototype focuses on testing and refining the geometry through printing to better understand how tangent folds can provide structural support and rigidity, enabling shallow overhangs without additional reinforcement.

Do you recognise famous ancient Greek sculptures?

We are proud to be part of the exhibition “Digital Memories – Transformations” in Paris, presented as part of the cultural program of Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the EU 2026, by artist .

Exhibited in the Faubourg Saint Honoré district, the sculptures are placed in dialogue with a historically layered environment, right in front of the Polish church Notre Dame de l’Assomption. The exhibition explores the relationship between memory, time, and image, bringing together physical material and digital processes.

At Vertico, we supported the project as sponsors and produced the sculptures in concrete using robotic 3D printing.

For us, this was a very unusual and exciting print. We had never printed sculptures like this before, and it was surprisingly fascinating to watch the faces slowly emerge layer by layer. The smooth transitions, subtle curves, and gradual shaping of the forms made the process feel almost meditative at times.

The layered texture adds another dimension to the sculptures, somewhere between archaeological artifact and digital object, which fits beautifully with the concept of the exhibition itself.

📍 Notre Dame de l’Assomption
📅 April 28 – July 27

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