COMPANY
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CONTACT
OBJECTS / PROJECTS
AGGREGATES / FIBERS
Architecture of Entropy,
3D-Printed in Stone
3D-Printed in Stone
Year
2025
Principal Design
OZRUH
Material Research & Fabrication
Dr. Pietro Odaglia / Senior Researcher at DBT, ETH Zurich
Christian Peterhans / Assistant - DBT, ETH Zurich
Prof. Benjamin Dillenburger / Chair - DBT, ETH Zurich
Structural Engineering
Danae Polyviou - formDP
Material & Technology
Binder jet 3D-printing with marble dust extracted from
Lasa Marmo Quarry
Documentary Film
Troy Edige & Beyza Mese
Photography
Lloyd Lee
Dimensions (Bounding Box)
Cluster 1 (White): 0.9m x 2.6m x 0.9m
Cluster 2 (Beige): 3m x 2.6m x 0.9M
Weight
1770 KG
Publications
Exhibited
Venice Biennale of Architecture 2025
2025
Principal Design
OZRUH
Material Research & Fabrication
Dr. Pietro Odaglia / Senior Researcher at DBT, ETH Zurich
Christian Peterhans / Assistant - DBT, ETH Zurich
Prof. Benjamin Dillenburger / Chair - DBT, ETH Zurich
Structural Engineering
Danae Polyviou - formDP
Material & Technology
Binder jet 3D-printing with marble dust extracted from
Lasa Marmo Quarry
Documentary Film
Troy Edige & Beyza Mese
Photography
Lloyd Lee
Dimensions (Bounding Box)
Cluster 1 (White): 0.9m x 2.6m x 0.9m
Cluster 2 (Beige): 3m x 2.6m x 0.9M
Weight
1770 KG
Publications
Exhibited
Venice Biennale of Architecture 2025
Anti-Ruin is a multi-phased architectural experiment inspired by Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s writings on randomness and disorder. It seeks to invert inherent fragilities in the built environment by embracing entropy, adaptation, and continuous reconfiguration through a combinatory system of aggregated, molecule-like blocks.
At its core, Anti-Ruin departs from architecture’s conventional fixation on completeness, where structures are either complete or incomplete. Within this binary logic, unfinished constructions and ruins lack incremental functionality. In contrast, Anti-Ruin merges top-down intention with bottom-up growth, ensuring that each phase remains meaningful, functional, and always complete.
Just as evolution strengthens through variation, Anti-Ruin replaces the rigid, idealized finality of an original state with evolving states. Each fragment—or its absence—creates an opportunity for reconfiguration, balancing intention with mutation and growth with pruning. This cultivates a divergently aggregated world of interwoven, ever-adaptive anti-ruins.
To mirror this aggregated nature, both the material system and fabrication process must enable reconfiguration at a granular scale. Binder-jetting emerges as the ideal method, offering precision at the microscopic level while ensuring materials can be reused and reshaped.
Anti-Ruin is manufactured at ETH Zurich’s Digital Building Technologies department, where its high-resolution binder-jetting process utilizes a geopolymer binder, providing a sustainable alternative to cement by reducing carbon emissions and eliminating volatile compounds. Equally critical is material circularity.
Anti-Ruin repurposes marble quarry dust—50% of a quarry’s waste—into customizable masonry, reinforcing adaptability in both form and resource use.
In an uncertain world, architecture must no longer be a fragile candle but become the fire that wishes for the wind.
At its core, Anti-Ruin departs from architecture’s conventional fixation on completeness, where structures are either complete or incomplete. Within this binary logic, unfinished constructions and ruins lack incremental functionality. In contrast, Anti-Ruin merges top-down intention with bottom-up growth, ensuring that each phase remains meaningful, functional, and always complete.
Just as evolution strengthens through variation, Anti-Ruin replaces the rigid, idealized finality of an original state with evolving states. Each fragment—or its absence—creates an opportunity for reconfiguration, balancing intention with mutation and growth with pruning. This cultivates a divergently aggregated world of interwoven, ever-adaptive anti-ruins.
To mirror this aggregated nature, both the material system and fabrication process must enable reconfiguration at a granular scale. Binder-jetting emerges as the ideal method, offering precision at the microscopic level while ensuring materials can be reused and reshaped.
Anti-Ruin is manufactured at ETH Zurich’s Digital Building Technologies department, where its high-resolution binder-jetting process utilizes a geopolymer binder, providing a sustainable alternative to cement by reducing carbon emissions and eliminating volatile compounds. Equally critical is material circularity.
Anti-Ruin repurposes marble quarry dust—50% of a quarry’s waste—into customizable masonry, reinforcing adaptability in both form and resource use.
In an uncertain world, architecture must no longer be a fragile candle but become the fire that wishes for the wind.
Marble Extraction at Lasa Marmo Quarry
Marble Extraction at Lasa Marmo Quarry
Marble Extraction at Lasa Marmo Quarry
3D-Printing at ETH Zurich
Assembly day at the Venice Biennale
Assembly day at the Venice Biennale
ANTI-RUIN Phase 1
ANTI-RUIN Phase 1
ANTI-RUIN Phase 1
ANTI-RUIN Phase 1
ANTI-RUIN Phase 1
ANTI-RUIN Phase 1