The project
For Mozz, one of Europe's most acclaimed pizza restaurants, Deramic designed and produced a modular ceramic wall: 173 interlocking bricks, 3D printed in stoneware, each shaped to let light through and hold the wind back.
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The brief
Mozz needed one surface to do three jobs: let daylight pass through, soften the wind at the entrance, and stay modular enough to change with the room.
That pushed the answer away from a flat divider and toward a brick system with depth, tolerance and assembly logic.
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Let light enter the room without turning the wall into a flat screen.
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Hold back the wind from the entrance while keeping visual depth.
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Make the modules interlock, so assembly could become part of the design.
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Design
We worked for months, testing countless joints. Clay is unpredictable — tolerances shift with distortion during drying and firing, and for a wall of 173 interlocking pieces, fractions of a millimeter compound across the whole composition. Through many prototypes and adjustments, we learned to control that distortion through customized print paths.
Along the way, two ideas reshaped the project.
First: the wall shouldn't be a surface. It needed depth, so light could enter not only across it but inside it — casting shadow within the wall itself.
Second: the joints weren't something to hide. They had to become the design — the main driver of the geometry, not an afterthought.
That's how the final brick took shape. Indirect light passes through. Wind doesn't. Each module interlocks in three dimensions with the next.
Form-finding the brick geometry through computational design.
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Making it in clay
Each of the 173 bricks was 3D printed in laguna granite stoneware. The printing alone takes consistency — the same toolpath, the same speed, the same hand on the material every time.
After printing, each brick was trimmed by hand to clean up the joint surfaces — the geometry that would later carry the entire wall — and fired at 1280 °C.
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Assembly
The wall came together piece by piece, on site. Because each brick interlocks in three dimensions with its neighbors, the geometry holds itself together — the system is its own structure.
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In place
Light enters through the wall and lands in two places — once on the surface, and once inside the wall itself. The shadow has depth.
At that point the wall stops behaving like a partition. It starts behaving like part of the room.
Project details
The technical record.
Project
Ceramic wall
Location
Ankara, Turkey
Status
Completed, August 2025
Components
173 interlocking bricks
Material
Laguna granite stoneware
Technique
3D clay printing
Firing
1280 °C
Studio
Deramic
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Mozz, Ankara
Year
2025
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