About Us
PROTOTYPING REVOLUTION
ONEOFF is the prototype of a new generation of modeling labs and expresses the potential of digital technology applied to rapid manufacturing.
ONE OFF was first established in Milan in 2003, within the context of the "Fabbrica del Vapore" project, as a rapid prototyping service specialized in the manufacture of models, functional prototypes and architectural models geared primarily for the design and architectural sectors.
For ONEOFF the true raw material is a 3D file from which every technology, material and result is possible.
ONEOFF, through the available technologies in house, combines innovative techniques (rapid prototyping , CNC milling, laser cutting, photoengraving, etc..) with traditional techniques.
Rapid Prototyping (RP) allows production of objects with a complex geometry, in a short time and without the need for tools, directly from the mathematical model of the object created using a three-dimensional CAD system.
Traditional technologies such as milling machines or numerical control machines allow us to create objects in all kinds of materials.
The combination of the various techniques available in house, means we are able to choose the best solution to satisfy the client’s requirements in terms of deadlines, cost and quality.
The company staff, that works very much as a team, is made up of young designers, engineers and architects with a high level of training and an excellent understanding of CAD 3D systems, as well as working experience in craft and artisan workshops.
Founding members: Arch Maurizio Meroni and Ing. Costanza Calvetti.
Awards and Prizes
ONEOFF is the new generation FABLAB that expresses the potential of digital technology applied to rapid manufacturing.
The innovation process ONEOFF applies throughout the operational flow is the result of analysis and strategic choices that have received the following awards:
2009_ Rosa Camuna Award_Lombardia Region_Costanza Calvetti
The "Rosa Camuna Award" was established in 1996 to recognize the commitment and hard work of Lombard women who have contributed significantly to the economic and social development of the region or who have distinguished themselves in the field of culture, civil and social commitment and creativity.
The Rosa Camuna Prize was awarded to Costanza Calvetti for the entrepreneurial and innovative spirit that has contributed to the founding and development of the modelling laboratory ONEOFF, which operates in the field of design and architecture.
For the commitment to technological experimentation applied to production, through the foundation of the brand Industreal, creating a link between the processes of cultural production and creative innovation interpreted by new generations.
For the work in promoting culture and the visual arts in support of young creativity, with particular attention to women, carried out by the cultural association FDVLAB - Laboratories of the Fabbrica del Vapore.
2009_Winner of the Gabriele Lanfredini Award _Chamber of Commerce - V Edition
The fifth edition of the Lanfredini Award confirms the purpose of enhancing craft, directing attention to the promotion of innovative small artisanal businesses, focusing on those with a high technological level.
ONEOFF receives the Gabriele Lanfredini Award of the Chamber of Commerce of Milan (in collaboration with the Gabriele Lanfredini Foundation for Crafts), in recognition of an artisanal Lombard firm that has demonstrated the ability to make – of the activity - an example of a marriage between tradition and innovation.
2009_ADI Design Index
ONEOFF/INDUSTREAL is invited by ADI to participate in the selection for the ADI Design Index with some manufactured products.
2009_ WALLPAPER * Design Awards 2009
ONEOFF/INDUSTREAL receives the International Award BEST VASES 2009 in Paris.
2009_ADI Design Index
ONEOFF/INDUSTREAL is invited by ADI to participate in the selection for the ADI Design Index with some manufactured products.
2008_ International Ceramics Competition, Mino_Japan
ONEOFF/INDUSTREAL received an Honourable Mention at the 8th edition of the International Ceramics Competition in Mino, Japan, for the development through methods of prototyping the Falling product, designed by Doodle, as a product that shapes the future of ceramics.
2008_ADI Design Index
ONEOFF/INDUSTREAL is invited by ADI to participate in the selection for the ADI Design Index with some manufactured products.
2008_ I.D. New + Notable Award
ONEOFF/INDUSTREAL with the project MOJO realized with laser cutting technology, designed by Emmanuel Gallina and Clara Giardina, was selected by American magazine I.D. as one of the 200 most ingenious objects, in the issue - NEW + NOTABLE Edition 2008, THE YEAR'S SMARTEST PRODUCTS.
2008_Creative and Innovative Businesses_Milan Province, Chamber of Commerce of Milan, Monza and Brianza
Industreal receives in Milan the CreatiCityGate_Creative and Innovative Businesses Award 2008.
2008_Winner of Design Management Europe Award_PRO-INNO Europe initiative
ONEOFF/INDUSTREAL is the winner of the 2008 DME Award hosted by the University of Wales Institute of Cardiff, United Kingdom, in recognition of its effective strategy targeted to outstanding quality and design. The recognition by the Grand Jury shows leadership in innovation and strategic excellence.
2007_ADI Design Index
ONEOFF/INDUSTREAL is invited by ADI to participate in the selection for the ADI Design Index with some manufactured products.
2007_ I.D. Design Concept Award
ONEOFF/INDUSTREAL received an Honourable Mention for the product SMOKES LIKE A CHIMNEY, designed by Frida Andressonn e James Steiner, by the American magazine I.D.
2007_Gioia Casa Best Design Award
ONEOFF/INDUSTREAL with the product FACCETTE, designed by Alessandro Mendini, was awarded the Best Design Award from the magazine Gioia Casa in Milan.
2007_ I.D. New + Notable Award
ONEOFF/INDUSTREAL with the products VASES TEXTURES, designed by Ionna Vautrin and Guillaume Delvigne, was selected by the American magazine I.D. as one of the 200 most ingenious objects, in the issue - NEW + NOTABLE 2007 Edition, THE YEAR'S MOST INGENIOUS PRODUCTS.
2007_ WALLPAPER * Design Awards 2007
ONEOFF/INDUSTREAL receives the International Award BEST CERAMIC COLLECTION 2007 in London.
2005_Winner of the call for Innovation_Chamber of Commerce of Milan
ONEOFF is awarded as an enterprise that applies the innovation of Products / Services / Process, Management and Organization with grant assistance (DG 180, 06/20/2005).
The Chamber of Commerce of Milan as part of its institutional initiatives - identifying innovation as an engine for development and growth of the local economy - supports the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises of the Province of Milan initiating investment projects with innovative features.
2004_Winner of Piazza Mercanti Award_Chamber of Commerce of Milan
ONEOFF receives the Piazza Mercanti Award of the Chamber of Commerce of Milan for Women Entrepreneurs. The award is given to entrepreneurs in the Milan economical system especially distinguished in the performance of their business.
This business excellence is evaluated based on seven parameters which correspond to the categories: New business, Internationalization, Innovation, Quality of work, Patronage and Spatial Development, Women Entrepreneurs and Environment Protection.
The selection and appointment of the winners have been made by a jury composed of representatives from the world of economy, labour, academic research and communication.
2004_Winner of the L.R. 35/96 Call_Lombardia Region
ONEOFF recieves the award for the design and manufacture of innovative products and/or services L.R. 16/12/1996 n.35, art6 lett. A - d.c.r. VI/697 - Misura D1), with the project "From the design to the object using rapid prototyping methods”.
2002_Winner of the Make your project call_Milan city council - FABBRICA DEL VAPORE
ONEOFF is the winner of the public call "Make your project" organized by the Milan city council and is selected by an international commission for the allocation of production space in the Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, distinguished for the technical innovation of processes applied to the design world.
The selection committee of the competition for the new centre of cultural youth La Fabbrica del Vapore, composed by Dr. Maria Grazia Mattei, Professor Claudio De Mattè, Professor Derrick De Kerckhove, Professor Aldo Giorgio Gargani, Dr. John Maeda and Dr. Sabine Schebrak, reviewed 302 projects.
Based on the criteria of adherence to the principles of the overall project of the La Fabbrica del Vapore, the professional and organizational capacity of the proponents, the coherence of the economic plan, the innovation and research contents shown by the described activity, the proposal of ONEOFF has been selected.
Electronic craftsmen have arrived in Milano
taken from IL PROGETTO, issue 21, Sept. 2004
George J. Sowden - Designer - Milano
"Electronic management of information by computers driven by 3D software has changed the world of design and architecture.
It seems a life time ago that people like me were running around making sure mistakes were kept to a minimum and that all the bits and pieces that went to make a product fitted. But it is, in fact, only ten years since the change started in the process, which began with the Industrial Revolution, where information created laboriously on paper, was passed from one desk to another or from one drawing board another, from drawing board to workshop and from workshop to factory.
Ten years ago we started to enter an amazing new world where detailed information is put together on a computer, where mathematical co-ordinates are created and used to construct things by numerically controlled machines. Tolerances have become a thing of the past.
The reality of rapid prototyping and digital manufacturing has arrived.
We make prototypes virtually and create the real pieces without tools, or at least without hard, steel, physical tools: we now use digital, invisible co-ordinates which enable us to put material exactly where we want it to be.
The advent of this electronic technology which has changed the way we designers work, has also changed the nature of the artisans and technicians who help us do our job. It has created a class of electronic craftsmen.
It seemed quite natural to me, when two years ago I received the first mailing-shot from ONEOFF, that a group of electronic artisans had finally arrived in Milano – capitale mondiale del design, where hundreds of professional studios, working with industries around the world that had, until then, been without this kind of service.
Of course previous generations of designers and architects, from the 1950s had been supremely served by craftsmen/modelmakers such as Giovanni Sacchi and Ovidio Rabolini without whom all the initial energy and creativity of Italian design could never have been the same.
In the same way I’m sure that without the availability of the services such as those now supplied by ONEOFF, the professionality of the present generation of industrial designers would be missing something.
One of the most important phases in the development of a project is the presentation of ideas and, as with any project, designers and architects always find themselves with the need to find communication tools to help them clarify their intentions.
A drawing is worth a thousand words, we used to say: we can now say a model is worth a thousand drawings. Anyone can understand a model: the scale, the shape, the feel, the intention. A model is not subject to interpretation. The reality is direct, the intention clear.
It is extraordinary this possibility of a direct link from thought, to sketch, to virtual computer model, to actual model and, when necessary, with time frames and costs that, even only five years ago, were totally unthinkable.
ONEOFF helps create this direct link between project, model and industry, and becomes a pivot point where we have the possibility to verify the electronic information we are using to manage the whole industrial process."
Fabbrica del Vapore
Via Luigi Nono 7 / Via Procaccini 4
20154 Milano
ONEOFF IS ONE OF THE FABBRICA DEL VAPORE (STEAM FACTORY) LABS
PROJECT
With the "LA FABBRICA DEL VAPORE" (THE STEAM FACTORY) project relative to the recovery of the abandoned industrial area in a central area of the city (between the streets of Procaccini, Luigi Nono, Messina and Cenisio) the City Government intends to create a youth centre where young people can test their ideas and abilities in direct contact with business operators and experts of the various categories of cultural production.
The overall surface area of the complex is about 30.000 sq. m while the gross surface area of the buildings is about 14.000 sq. m (7.000 sq. m has been set aside for businesses activities related to seven macro areas - music, design/graphics, visual arts/photography, new media, theatre/dance/cinema, writing, interdisciplinary area; 4.000 sq. m for exhibitions and shows; 3.000 sq. m for additional services and refreshments).
The intention is to bring to life a place where different artistic and cultural activities can be carried out directly by young people or by parties that intend to work with youths by sharing their skills and professionalism.
The project envisions the creation of a structured space where it is possible to link culture and production and bring to life actions that involve artistic expertise, business activities and distribution circuits, a world where it is also possible to create individually since it will be possible to form relationships with others for reciprocal betterment and to increase the effectiveness of new.
The choice made by the city government concerning the end use of the area in question was to define the project guidelines, the purposes and objectives of the operation, the theoretical general activities, the possible parties and management models, reserving the right to identify the specific contents of the operations and the legal arrangement of the management board on the basis of the projects that will be presented and the typology of the parties chosen.
La Fabbrica del Vapore (The Steam Factory) is designed to be a meeting point between capable business operators and young talented people, put in a position where they can learn, experiment and produce.
IDENTITY OF THE SITE
The purpose of the city government is to make "La Fabbrica del Vapore" (The Steam Factory):
- a youth centre of cultural production that is a reference centre to organise and gather together cultural, artistic and productive abilities;
- a large workshop of ideas and activities directed at experimenting, researching, developing and exploring new languages, new knowledge and new techniques;
- a place where young people are the protagonists of cultural production and beneficiaries of the business activities and events;
- a space that is open to the most innovative ideas in connection with the most vital worlds of the city and of the national and international scene;
- an active centre that can be visited year round and during the entire day.
PUBLIC NOTICE
Following the closure of the public notice for the presentation of the projects regarding artistic, cultural or service activities to implement in La Fabbrica del Vapore (The Steam Factory) it is possible to see an initial run-down of the projects presented.
302 proposals arrived; 267 of these were presented by parties that operate in the city of Milan.
A total of 118 associations, 66 individuals, 56 groups being set up, 58 companies and cooperatives and four single-person companies responded to the public notice for the presentation of the projects.
Most of the projects refer to cinema/theatre/dance, visual arts/photography, design/graphic design, new media, and music.
The selected projects are:
ONEOFF SRL,
Studio Azzurro s.r.l., CareOf – Viafarini, Show Biz s.r.l., Associazione Culturale Ariella Vidach – AiEP, Associazione Centro Studi Holden, Associazione Italiana Amici Cinema d'Essai – AIACE, Il Fischio, Laboratorio Dagad, Adriana Lohman, Macchinazioni Teatrali, Associazione Culturale Mascherenere, Associazione Culturale Neon, Associazione Culturale Polifemo, Process 4, RAM srl, Accademia del Gioco Dimenticato.
FDVLAB
Associazione Culturale FDV – Laboratori Fabbrica del Vapore
Via Luigi Nono, 7
20154 Milano
Founding members:
ONEOFF SRL,
Accademia del Gioco Dimenticato, Aiace Milano, Ariella Vidach-AiEP, Careof-Viafarini-DOCVA, Il Fischio, Laboratorio Dagad, MacchinazioniTeatrali, Mascherenere, Polifemo, Process 4, Show Biz, Studio Azzurro.
The FDVLAB association was founded in 2001 through the interaction of thirteen different institutions - winners of the international proclamation "Realizza il tuo progetto" announced by the City Hall of Milan, selected by an international commission for the allocation of production spaces at the Fabbrica del Vapore - active in the promotion of culture and contemporary art in all its forms.
FDVLAB is an association that is based on developing the cultural initiative particularly sensitive to the cultural and motivational emergence that is specific to the whole area of youth, but not only. It is believed that through its calling the Fabbrica del Vapore should contribute significantly to build opportunities for production, enhancement and promotion of cultural and artistic values; opportunities to meet and exchange between different parties and different attitudes with the goal to become a place which multiples expressive energy, reference and connecting point for traditional and innovative experiences, indirect training place via example and invitation undertaken through expression, confrontation and dialogue.
Through the research and the experimental activity of the laboratories, the Fabbrica del Vapore is increasingly becoming an open and active space, aimed at developing and exploring new languages, new knowledge and new technologies. Thus the association is composed of players ready to make available to students and the industry expertise and professionalism, to create a real link between the processes of cultural production and the capacity of innovation represented, in the first instance, by new generations.
In a time in which the characteristics of a real historic transition are recognizable, FDVLAB decided to move in the direction of promoting not only a cultural policy for youth, but also those experimentations addressed to the expressions "young" or "young art", those languages twisted and redefined by technological and behavioural conditions absolutely unknown.
In front of the explosive media and global presence FDVLAB hopes that the Fabbrica del Vapore becomes a factory of all possible worlds: a place of aggregation of diverse forces, a centre of resistance to marketization of thought and action, producing a centre of new ideas and new proposals.
The objective of FDVLAB is to transform the Fabbrica del Vapore into a great laboratory of ideas and creative experiences in the field of visual and performing arts, design, architecture, fashion, photography, new technologies and other cultures.
FDVLAB organizes exhibitions, competitions and research related to art in its various forms, as well as theatre and dance shows, concerts, seminars, workshops and training courses.
Deeply rooted in the city, FDVLAB is connected and interacts with the world. Since 2007 it is among the "friends" of Trans Europe Halles, an international network of over 45 independent cultural centres belonging to 25 European countries.
ONEOFF Team
Costanza Calvetti, engineer
Maurizio Meroni, architect
Maira Necchi, administration
Carlo Romagnolo, product designer
Giordano Redaelli, product designer
Monica Favara, product designer
Alessandro Moro, product designer
Tiziana Presciutti, interior designer
Lara Alexandre Da Silva, apprentice model-maker
Maria Chiara Di Berardo, product designer
Erick Familia De La Cruz, apprentice model-maker
Mattia Bianchi, set designer, model-maker
Martina Blanzieri, administration
Chiara Casati, interior designer
Giorgia Bellasio, administration
Luciano Catena, product designer
Domenico Ranieri, architect
Erica Cordoni, administration
Sergio Sciamanna, architect
Martina Tiburzi, designer
Maria Cristina Caputo, designer
Nicolo' Gazzola, architect
Nadia Biavaschi, communication designer
Chiara Ferranti, designer
Luna Spina, model-maker
Filippo Moroni, designer
Samuel Serrau, product designer
Linda Silvestre, administration
Ettore Contro, product designer
Anna Quattrone, product designer
Internship / Stage
Paolo Paciucci, product designer
Enrica Ranaldi, interior designer
Alessandra De Vito, communication designer
Giulia Lorini, communication
Silvia Moggia, product designer
Daniela Pedoni, product designer
Sara Balzanelli, communication designer
Francesca Romei, product designer
Irene Zanello, architect
Birgit Tempele, interior designer
Francesca Dori, interior designer
Paola Viola, designer
Oksana Luzika, interior designer
Aija Plance, interior designer
Sergejs Rodionovs, interior designer
Massimo Ungolo, product designer
Andrea Poggesi, product designer
Daniela Pecoraro, product designer
Enrico Conti, product designer
Maria Cristina Caputo, designer
Monica Verdi, designer
Andrea Viola, product designer
Lorenzo Zecchin, product designer
