Synthetic Geologies
Synthetic Geologies: On the Becoming Process of Cement explores cement as a material shaped by the compression of geological and industrial time. Formed through the extraction, calcination, and recombination of limestone and clay, cement occupies an ambiguous space between the natural and the synthetic. The project repositions this often-overlooked material as a site of transformation, memory, and human geological agency.
Incurved Terrains
Incurved Terrains explores discarded quarry silt through hybrid casting techniques combining sand and slip casting. Fine silt, poured into sand molds, reacts to slow drying by forming natural incurved shapes. These warped forms, preserved through firing, reveal how residual materials can self-organize into structure—shaped not by design, but by the material’s own internal tensions and drying behavior.
Tectonic Dusts
Tectonic Dusts is an exploration into the residual by-products resulting from stone quarrying and processing in Vals, Switzerland, with a particular focus on quartzite. In this initiative, an approach to repurpose stone processing waste into building materials, ranging from bricks to tiles, is proposed.
Dripped Dreams
Dripped Dreams is a site-specific ephemeral installation which draws its conceptual and methodological inspiration from the natural phenomena of stalagmite formations. The project reinterprets traditional sand-casting method through a process of deliberate, contemplative dripping. It was shown in Alcova space as part of Milan Design Week 2024.
Liminal Sediments
Liminal Sediments explores the characteristics of gravel quarry waste, examining its potential uses and applications through the process of crafting bricks. Celebrating the transitional and in-between stages in the material development process, the project aims to challenge the conventional notion of what constitutes a valuable resource. Project exhibited as part of the Design Biennale Zürich 2023.
Karshif Chronicles
Born from our research trip in Siwa-Egypt, Karshif Chronicles unfolds as an investigation of materiality and the intimate relationship between land, culture, and human endeavours. As we immersed ourselves into the salty oasis, we embarked on an exploration of karshif—a naturally grown conglomerate intricately woven into the very essence of Siwa's landscape.
Fluid Residuum
Fluid Residuum is a site-specific material investigation into the overlooked and so-called “waste” materials produced in large volumes by the construction industry. In collaboration with the local gravel company in Rabius-Switzerland, we have been exploring alternative uses for gravel quarry waste which is usually discarded as landfill.
Ocean Articulated
Ocean Articulated explores the geological deep-time of salt and sand in Northern Switzerland, rethinking these materials as cyclical rather than consumable. Using local resources, the project develops a recyclable, load-bearing material shaped through sand casting. Designed to decompose and return to its raw state, the work proposes a model of material ethics that resists permanence and reframes extraction as temporal borrowing.
Gypsum Act
Gypsum Act is a process oriented material investigation into material properties and fabrication process of gypsum. An experimental way of shaping the material has been studied and as a result, empty space of the moving liquid gypsum is revealed. The form evolves out of the specific conditions and capabilities of gypsum, with contributions from the law of chance.