Anti-Ruin, Phase 2
A 2.4 m column of four printed blocks, built to stand alone and later to join the Venice structure as a new slab.
Four blocks, one column, 2.4 metres tall on a footprint of 40 by 60 centimetres. The second phase of Anti-Ruin was shown in London, at the World Design Congress at the Barbican in September 2025 and at the Royal Academy of Arts.
Anti-Ruin was designed by OZRUH as a structure that grows in stages and can be taken apart and recombined. The first phase, the gate shown in Venice, is the base; this column is the first addition. It stands independently, but its blocks are shaped so that they can be turned on their side and attached to the Venice structure as a further slab. For the first time, the printed stone is fibre-reinforced: fibres mixed into the sand let a slender element take the bending that a column this narrow, and later a slab, has to resist. A third phase will bring both parts together in a single configuration.
