Ceramic wall tile is a material that conveys solidity. It has the capacity to uniquely characterize residential surfaces and volumes in ways other materials cannot. Ceramic tiles are linked to the spirit of craftsmanship and expertise: tile production is traditionally artisanal, a process of kneading and molding by hand, drying naturally, and firing via kiln, as well as linked to the land, with natural colors corresponding to the regional clays from which they were extracted. Ceramics have thus historically yielded a wide variety of tile types.
Using today’s innovative production technologies this variety has seemingly become infinite. Ceramic tiles can be purchased in many tones, shines, flatnesses, transparencies, colors, and surface textures. Glass enamel is often applied to the surfaces of raw tiles to create pearlescent, metallic, volcanic, or opaque finishes. Ceramic tiles can be silky or matt, decorated with metallic lusters, elegant textures, detailed micropatterns, or large-scale graphics. Three-dimensional tiles are also made possible using specific formworks, material mixes, and firing strategies.
Tiles are modular in nature. When combined on larger surfaces, tiles can be used to communicate consistent and simple or highly complex patterning. They are available in a wide range of dimensional formats and thicknesses, traditionally rectangular but also produced in shapes that range from diamond to curvilinear. While some products are specifically manufactured for indoor and outdoor use on walls, many can also be applied to floors, facades, and terraces.
The ceramic tile products listed below stand out among those currently on the market:
New opportunities for obsolete spaces: OOIIO Architecture completes the transformation of a former Shop into an Apartment in Madrid. In just 55 m2 this colorful home concentrates what is necessary for a contem...
With views out over Port Phillip Bay and the city this house is a family home during the week and a beach house by weekend. Mt Eliza House is three hundred metres from the beach and an hour from Melbourne city...
This project has completely modified the look and use of this two story penthouse through a limited amount of changes.
A central-plan bright apartment in a historic condominium of Milan, with high ceilings and large arched windows on all sides. The boiserie of the windows define the classic style to which we add a modern touch. The ce...
This project involves (for leisure use) the extension of an existing house, located in a quiet and surrounded by trees neighborhood in Brasilia-DF. The family (composed of a couple, three children and two dogs) loves...
Project Alma, published by Mosa. Location: Stockholm, Sweden Category: Workshops...
The apartment, located on the top floor of a building on the border between the Prati and Balduina districts, has one of its strengths in the brightness of the rooms. The project reflects the will of the customers, a...
Form and materials expressiveness in domestic residential architecture.A family decided to contact the OOIIO architecture studio for the design and execution of their home on a beautiful plot in...
Set of villas located next to a pine forest. The volumes develop perpendicularly to the road, facing south. They land along the natural slope of the land, the garage, with only one floor, fini...
Unmistakably 1980’s from the outside, this three storey end of terrace town house is quirky and bold in form and detail. Part of a unique wider typology in the immediate area, on the edge of the River Thames, wh...
