{"id":65707,"date":"2025-07-28T18:00:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T16:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/?p=65707"},"modified":"2025-07-28T17:32:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T15:32:03","slug":"3d-printing-used-in-redesign-of-terrazza-aperol-in-milan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/3d-printing-used-in-redesign-of-terrazza-aperol-in-milan\/","title":{"rendered":"3D Printing Used in Redesign of Terrazza Aperol in Milan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"469\">One of Milan\u2019s iconic nightlife spots has been redesigned thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/what-is-additive-manufacturing\/\">additive manufacturing<\/a>. This is Terrazza Aperol, overlooking Piazza Duomo, which serves as the setting for an interior design project that blends aesthetics, sustainability, and technological innovation. Behind the project is eXgineering, an Italian startup specializing in 3D printing, which created the key design elements using recycled polycarbonate and RAM technology (Robotic Additive Moulding).<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"471\" data-end=\"774\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The intervention, led by the architectural firm Vudafieri-Saverino Partners, stands out for its design language featuring vibrant colors, sustainable materials, and fluid shapes. All of this expresses the Aperol brand\u2019s values of togetherness and sharing, conveyed through an immersive visual narrative.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"471\" data-end=\"774\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-65708 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/Aperol1-600x343.jpg\" alt=\"Aperol Spritz Bar Milan\" width=\"600\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/Aperol1-600x343.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/Aperol1-160x91.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/Aperol1.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"523\">Within this concept, eXgineering created the most exclusive components of the bar: the entrance wall and the lamp screens. These structures share a three-dimensional texture inspired by wave-like movement, made from recycled polycarbonate and 3D printed. The RAM technology used by eXgineering, with controlled melting and cooling processes, allows for shaping complex, multilayered, and non-coplanar geometries. This helps preserve the material\u2019s mechanical properties, including strength, transparency, and crystallinity.<\/p><div class=\"dnati-inside-article-leaderboard\" style=\"text-align: center;\" id=\"dnati-3555091431\"><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/eu.snapmaker.com\/products\/snapmaker-u1-3d-printer?utm_source=3dnatives&#038;utm_medium=pr&#038;utm_campaign=u1launch2025&#038;utm_content=u1preorder\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"850 x 150px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/850-x-150px-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/850-x-150px-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/850-x-150px-600x106.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/850-x-150px-1200x212.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/850-x-150px-768x136.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/850-x-150px-1536x271.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/850-x-150px-2048x361.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/850-x-150px-160x28.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" width=\"850\" height=\"150\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p data-start=\"525\" data-end=\"1231\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The choice of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/polycarbonate-pc-for-3d-printing-110220204\/\">polycarbonate<\/a> is no coincidence. \u201c<em>This isn\u2019t your typical cheap plastic, but a material that offers lightness and transparency, safety, and mechanical strength. It holds great potential both in terms of creative freedom during the design and development phase and in terms of safety and environmental sustainability,<\/em>\u201d explains Simone Maccagnan, Business Development Director at eXgineering. In fact, polycarbonate can be recycled multiple times, as long as it is properly treated and collected. \u201c<em>This project demonstrates how 3D printing, combined with the characteristics of polycarbonate, is redefining the limits of contemporary design, offering new creative and productive opportunities.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"525\" data-end=\"1231\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-65709 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/TerrazzaAperol1-600x343.jpg\" alt=\"Aperol Spritz Bar Terrace\" width=\"600\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/TerrazzaAperol1-600x343.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/TerrazzaAperol1-160x91.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/TerrazzaAperol1.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Large-scale 3D printing, applied here to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/the-role-of-3d-printing-in-interior-design-010920234\/\">interior design<\/a>, allows for a seamless blend of craftsmanship and industrial production. It creates unique formats that are difficult to achieve through traditional methods, bringing them to life through computational architecture and the morphological freedom of additive manufacturing. The result is a distinctive, customizable, scalable, and sustainable design, perfectly integrated into Milan\u2019s urban identity and the Aperol brand\u2019s aesthetic.<\/p>\n<p>With previous projects also completed in Venice, eXgineering confirms its innovative capabilities. Furthermore, it opens new possibilities for using 3D printing in the food design and interior decoration sectors.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think about the use of 3D printing in Terrazza Aperol? 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Behind the project&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6118,"featured_media":65710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-and-design","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65711,"href":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65707\/revisions\/65711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}