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9 Installations at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale Built from Materials That Breathe, Erode, Grow, and Even Think
Yagmur Baydır
June 24, 2025
The installations at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale go beyond form; they grow, erode, and even talk back to their environment. We rounded up 9 of our favorites using wild materials and unexpected methods!
🔁 Recycled & Circular Materials
OZRUH’s Anti-Ruin: Marble-dust waste becomes a 3D-printed, eroding monument to reuse.
Gateway by Foster + Porsche: A modular aluminum portal explores the future of adaptive, mobile infrastructure.
🌱 Bio-Integrated & Living Installations
Picoplanktonics (Canada Pavilion): A 3D-printed structure laced with living cyanobacteria that respond to light and air.
Ecologically Active Structure: 3D-printed soil seeded with plants creates self-sustaining architecture.
FundamentAI: AI-generated columns respond to Venice's lagoon chemistry using bio-reactive materials.
🌀 Craft-Technology Hybrids
MAD’s Chinese Paper Umbrella: Xuan paper meets tung oil in a poetic canopy that ages, breathes, and glows.
BIG’s Ancient Future: Bhutanese hand-carving meets robotic milling in an immersive timber installation.
⚙️ Digital Fabrication & Modularity
Duality of Skin and Core: A 3D-printed modular system that exposes its inner logic—skin, structure, and all.
DIAMANTI: A lightweight canopy combining post-tensioned 3D-printed concrete and CLT, exploring sustainable form through digital geometry.
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Parametric Architecture
MAD’s “Chinese Paper Umbrella” at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale
OZRUH’s Anti-Ruin Installation at Venice Biennale Embraces Entropy with Material Reuse
3D-Printed Soil Wall Sprout Greenery at Venice Biennale 2025
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Duality of Skin and Core: Striking 3D Printed Modular Column in Venice Biennale 2025
Picoplanktonics Turns the Canada Pavilion into a Living Laboratory at Venice Biennale 2025
Gateway to Venice’s Waterway by Porsche and Norman Foster Foundation
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FundamentAI Lets Venice’s Lagoon Design the City
BIG’s Ancient Future Brings Together Bhutanese Artisanship and Robotics at Venice Biennale
DIAMANTI Canopy Debuts in Venice with Sustainable 3D-Printing
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