Levent Ozruh
Levent Ozruh is an architect and designer, and the founder and director of OZRUH, a London-based architectural studio working across research-led, material-driven practice. His work explores adaptive design systems that challenge architectural permanence, bridging advanced manufacturing, elemental material cycles and open-ended spatial strategies. Ozruh is a Design Expert at the UK Design Council and has contributed to the European Space Agency’s lunar architecture research as part of Hassell’s Space Architecture team. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Barbican Centre, Royal Academy of Arts and the London Design Festival.
Anti-Ruin
3D printed stone dust installation
For this exhibition, Ozruh presents an iteration of Anti-Ruin, a multi-phased architectural experiment which was recently exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Through a system of aggregated, molecule-like blocks, the installation rejects architecture’s fixation on completion. While its monumental structure evokes ancient classical architecture, Anti-Ruin is not destined to become a crumbling artefact. Instead, it allows for addition, removal, and reconfiguration, proposing a built environment open to being shaped by inevitable change rather than defined in opposition to it.
3D-printed from low-carbon granular aggregates such as marble stone dust, the installation’s recyclable materiality supports an architecture that evolves through care, adaptation, and the acceptance of entropy. Embracing change as an integral part of its life and meaning, the work employs a material as novel as dust to construct an architectural artefact of the future, where material circularity meets digital innovation.
Design + Concept: OZRUH: Levent Ozruh (Director)
Material Research + Fabrication: Dr. Pietro Odaglia, DBT, ETH Zurich
Prototype Models: 3DMZ
Structural Engineering (Assembly): Danae Polyviou, formDP