Karen Antorveza

Geological Microbial Formations - Arsenale Exhibition-19th International Architecture Exhibition – @labiennale curated by @crassociati Operating continuously throughout the Biennale, this living installation functions as a microbial factory where a robotic arm incrementally builds an architectural structure by layering granulates and spraying biocement enriched with bacterial cultures. Through biomineralization, loose particles solidify into cohesive forms. Inspired by stromatolites, the system stages a site-specific performance shaped by material, machine, microbes, and time. - Participants: Karen Antorveza @kaphend Prof. Benjamin Dillenburger Robert Kindler @robert_schwindler Dr. Dimitrios Terzis @terzaros - Technical Support: Che-Wei Lin @t1g3r_l1n Kai Hsun Yeh @kyle.yeh Tobias Hartmann Fergal Coulter Video: @ramiro_iturrioz Co-curated by @ingridmariapaoletti @maba.research - Support: @ethzurich @arch.ethz @medusoil @universalrobots @eberhard_pioniere - Photography: Matteo Losurdo Open to the public: 10 May – 23 Nov 2025 @digitalbuildingtechnologies #biennalearchitectura2025 #intelligens

Closing the last days of this journey. If you are in Venice this weekend, see you around! Photo: Gerhard Bliedung @labiennale @crassociati

@dropcity_org presents a continuous program of workshops, live fabrication sessions and open studios. From April 20 to 26, all lab spaces are active daily from 11am to 7pm, with ongoing live working sessions offering continuous access to processes, experimentation and making. Opening on April 19, from 5pm to 9pm. All workshops are FREE and accessible upon registration, check link in bio. AIR LAB Air as Evidence - act I with: Andrea Anner & Thibault Brevet @aatb_ch © AATB & Daniel Morgan (Lead Designer, Innovation Apparel Product Design) Making the invisible visible. Engage directly with airflow systems to master foundational principles and explore air as an invisible, dynamic design element. Workshop
April 19, 5-7pm Air as Evidence – act II
with Andrea Anner & Thibault Brevet © AATB & Daniel Morgan (Lead Designer, Nike Innovation Apparel Product Design) Make heat visible. Use thermochromic paint to reveal hidden thermal flows and work with heat as a design material. Workshop
April 20, 5-7pm Air as Evidence – act III
with Karen Antorveza @kaphend (ETH Researcher) & Marya Chan (Director, Nike Sportswear Footwear Color & Materials Design) Reveal the unseen. Learn airbrushing by working directly with paint, pressure, and airflow as core design tools. Workshop
April 20, 5-7pm Check link in bio for registration!

A shiny little world in my samples.✨💎🤍 Tal vez, detrás de todo el ajetreo de ser investigadora, de justificar cada paso con datos, gráficos y razones, existe una parte intuitiva de mí que quiere solo ver lo bello sin tanta razón. Una parte que se emociona con pequeños momentos imposibles de clasificar en un excel. Estas fotos son de la primera vez que vi estos cristales que me han acompañado durante tres años de investigación. Ese día pasé horas frente al microscopio, acercándome, alejándome mirando cada rincón de un sample a primera vista no reflejaba tanta belleza. Ese día fue un recordatorio de lo lindo que es descubrir y asombrarnos de este mundo por mas de que a simple vista parezca ordinario. #biocement #calcite #microbes

Throwing oneself again and again into the river/lake/sea, chasing shapes of water. Trusting the currents...thinking about this quote lately that it feels like is talking to me directly. “Water is the consummate immigrant, trapped in transit, never able to settle” Elif Shakaf. Venice-Zurich-Ilha Grande/Brasil my 2025 waters. .

A precious animation made in collaboration with my genius friend @ramiro_iturrioz . This was a little attempt to visualise the micro world, where the tiniest architects (bacteria) grow unique and beautiful crystals structures. ⚡️💖 Made for @labiennale #biennalearchitettura2025

Geological Microbial Formations Arsenale Exhibition-19th International Architecture Exhibition – @labiennale curated by @crassociati Operating continuously throughout the Biennale, this living installation functions as a microbial factory. A robotic arm incrementally builds an architectural structure by layering granulates and spraying biocement enriched with bacterial cultures. Through biomineralization, loose particles solidify into cohesive forms. Inspired by stromatolites, the system stages a site-specific performance shaped by material, machine, microbes, and time. Open to the public: 10 May – 23 Nov 2025 - Participants: Karen Antorveza @kaphend Prof. Benjamin Dillenburger Robert Kindler @robert_schwindler Dr. Dimitrios Terzis @terzaros - Technical Support: Che-Wei Lin @t1g3r_l1n Kai Hsun Yeh @kyle.yeh Tobias Hartmann Fergal Coulter - Video: @ramiro_iturrioz - Co-curated by @ingridmariapaoletti @maba.research - Sponsors: @@ethzurich @arch.ethz @medusoil @universalrobots @eberhard_pioniere - Ph 1: @lloydleephotography Ph 2: Matteo Losurdo Ph 3: @robert_schwindler @kaphend - @digitalbuildingtechnologies

Geological Microbial Formations 19th International Architecture Exhibition – @labiennale curated by @crassociati Arsenale Exhibition Open to the public: 10 May – 23 Nov 2025 Operating continuously throughout the Biennale, this living installation functions as a microbial factory where a robotic arm incrementally builds an architectural structure by layering granulates and spraying biocement enriched with bacterial cultures. Through biomineralization, loose particles solidify into cohesive forms. Inspired by stromatolites, the system stages a site-specific performance shaped by material, machine, microbes, and time. - Participants: Karen Antorveza @kaphend Prof. Benjamin Dillenburger Robert Kindler @robert_schwindler Dr. Dimitrios Terzis @terzaros - Technical Support: Che-Wei Lin @t1g3r_l1n Kai Hsun Yeh @kyle.yeh Tobias Hartmann Fergal Coulter Video: @ramiro_iturrioz - Co-curated by @ingridmariapaoletti @maba.research Sponsors: @ethzurich @arch.ethz @medusoil @universalrobots @eberhard_pioniere - Photography: @lloydlees @digitalbuildingtechnologies #biennalearchitectura2025 #intelligens

Happy to have been invited to contribute to the Biennale Architettura 2025 @labiennale curated by @crassociati with our project “Geological Microbial Formations’. ✨ We will be part of the Arsenale Exhibition: Matter Makes Sense co-curated by @ingridmariapaoletti . Looking forward to see you all in the opening days next week! @kaphend Benjamin Dillenburger @robert_schwindler Dimitrios Terzis @terzaros - @digitalbuildingtechnologies _ Technical support: @t1g3r_l1n @kyle.yeh Tobias Hartmann Fergal Coulter @ramiro_iturrioz _ Sponsoring and support: @ethzurich @arch.ethz @medusoil @universalrobots @eberhard_pioniere #BiennaleArchitettura2025 #IntelliGens

Random selection of travel diary -October 2024- 1. of course a stone texture. I love them. 2. a beautiful bird that didn’t move for 3 hours 3. dramatic island sky (really really impressive) 4. the teletubbies door but also an arch master piece 5. best bath “I♥︎湯” 6. selfiando with wood reflections 7. definitely the grass is greener on the other side 8. everything converged at the same point, no matter all the possibilities 9. random public kitchen facilities 10. us pretending 11. stones pretending 12. typical evening, comics situation 13. Maribel bonita going to the space in Kyoto 14. videogame feeling, and the future in the 80s - Osaka 15. let’s just have more entangled connections-Tokyo 16. convenience store, probably my most visited place and the best invent ever-Tokyo

Kyotango is a parallel world, where rocks emerge from the sea in all kinds of shapes. Some are softer and more colorful, others are full of sharp angles and dark corners. You can go up a bit and see it all different, expansive, with many other rocks emerging along the other beaches. Then go down and get up close to all the beauty of the micro world. Next to it, the magic village, with old wooden houses, tatamis, paper doors, and earthen walls; so simple and harmonious where symmetry is not a quality. Family, childhood, water, light food, and sun, there are not many more questions to ask after all.

“Enter the void” feeling. Tokyo’s rainy nights, are almost like an endless feeling of high, with their intense colors, smells, sounds and neon lights. Moved with the reflection of a city in its raindrops, and its thousands of little cozy places. We had too many highballs with Sakura, the happiest bartender. 🤍