I designed this wall for Mozz, one of the best pizza restaurants in Europe. From the very beginning, the idea was that it should feel like it truly belongs to the space.

The design inputs were clear: it had to let light pass through, block the wind, and stay modular so it could be reconfigured.

I worked for months, testing countless joints. Clay is unpredictable, and tolerances shift with distortion during drying and firing. Through many prototypes and endless adjustments, I learned how to control the distortion with customized print paths.

Along the way I had two big realizations:

• First, the wall shouldn’t just exist as a surface. It needed depth, so light could enter and shadows could fall not only on the surface but also inside the wall, making it feel like it truly belongs to the space.
  
• Second, the joints weren’t something to hide inside the bricks. They had to become the main driver of the design.
  

That’s how the final bricks took shape. They allow indirect light to pass through while blocking the wind, and they interlock in 3D.

173 interlocking bricks, 3D printed in stoneware, laguna granite clay and fired at 1280°C.