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Clay plasters

An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about clay plasters

Product • By ClayworksClayworks Undulating Finish

Clayworks Undulating Finish

This bespoke finish echoes our dedication to craft and material innovation. Gentle multidirectional indentations create moments of light and shade on the surface, highlighting the beauty of clay's inherent texture. More

Product • By ClayworksClayworks Arakabe Finish

Clayworks Arakabe Finish

Our Arakabe style finishes pay thoughtful tribute to the traditional Japanese plastering technique of the same name, where straw is integrated into the clay for greater flexibility, strength and moisture resistance. Bespoke variations include Long Straw, Short Straw and Heavy Straw. More

Product • By ClayworksClayworks Rammed Earth Finish

Clayworks Rammed Earth Finish

Clayworks’ Rammed Earth finishes have been developed as an answer to the complex and technical challenges of building with monolithic mass, an ancient, natural construction method. Traditional rammed earth architecture requires many tonnes of compressed earth (normally at a width of 800mm) to create buildings with structural integrity, prohibiting its use and viability in most urban and retrofit contexts. As an alternative to monolithic mass rammed earth walls, Clayworks Rammed Earth finishes can be applied as an entirely customisable 7-10mm thick wall build up, suitable for all wall and construction types. This innovation entirely revolutionises the way this natural building technique can be applied in contemporary buildings, delive... More

Product • By ClayworksClayworks Rustic Finish

Clayworks Rustic Finish

Clayworks Rustic Finish embraces the full richness of clay, with a robust, earthy quality that carries natural depth and variation. Its coarser texture brings raw materiality to interiors, offering an elemental and enduring character.  Made from natural clay, this finish is breathable, non-toxic, and contributes to healthier indoor environments. Its ability to regulate humidity and soften acoustics complements its visual strength, ensuring that its striking presence also enhances comfort and wellbeing within a space. More

Product • By ClayworksClayworks Smooth Finish

Clayworks Smooth Finish

Clayworks Smooth Finish is a natural clay plaster, offering a refined, quietly textured surface with a soft sheen and subtle tonal variation. The natural qualities of clay bring warmth and tactility, with a quiet depth that enhances interior space. Calm and understated, the finish can serve as a minimalist backdrop or a defining surface in its own right. This finish is breathable, non-toxic, and contributes to healthier indoor environments. Its ability to regulate humidity and soften acoustics complements its aesthetic qualities, making it both a practical and beautiful choice for interior surfaces. More

Project • By Black RabbitPrivate Houses

Friar Tuck Residence

In this reimagined mid-century home, we embrace sustainability through authentic living design principles. By preserving the original single-story form, we create a sunlit courtyard using passive solar techniques. Prioritizing old-world natural materials and processes, we craft a healthy interior environment, devoid of artificial dyes, paints, and stains. Experience the luxury of simplicity, where the past converges with the present in perfect harmony with nature. Leonid Furmansky Leonid Furmansky Leonid Furmansky The home is designed to maximize its wooded surroundings by merging indoor and outdoor spaces. The front courtyard is encased in a Texas limestone privacy wall. It is seamlessly connected to the rear pool, deck, an... More

Project • By MR StudioApartments

Estoril Bay Apartment

Located along Estoril Bay, facing the Atlantic Ocean, the beachfront apartment was designed as a place for entertaining, in which all aspects of the apartment are intended to act as an extension of the surrounding environment. Michelle Reis Studio Through the removal of the original linear elements that divided the plan, the space was reunified, and into this, a curved elemental form was placed. Michelle Reis Studio   The design response is simple, refined and calming, allowing the clients to rest and recharge. Michelle Reis Studio More

Project • By Coburg University - Faculty DesignStudent Housing

Circular Tiny House CTH*1

Circular Tiny House - CTH*1 - Straw.Clay.Timber.Light How to build sustainable? A very current question - that moves a lot of people, as well Master students of the course „DESIGN and MAKE sustainably“ guided by Prof. Dr. Rainer Hirth at Coburg University of Applied Sciences and Arts. The project started with a number of seminars about problems coming from the building sector. According to an UN report from 2020 [1], the construction sector is responsible for 38 % of all CO2 emissions globally; for an immense and constantly growing consumption of resources and, for example, in Germany for around 55 % of all waste[2]. The constantly increasing demand for living space per capita - the average is currently 48 qm in German... More

Project • By BÜRO KLKRestaurants

Mraz & Sohn

„Très chic, very raw and pure, a little punk yet cosy“  is how one of Austria’s most-read newspapers recently described the result of the renovation process that took place at Mraz & Sohn. The renowned Viennese fine dining restaurant, celebrated for its unconventional approach to haute cuisine, has received an interior update by BÜRO KLK. David Schreyer   “Family restaurant with no borders” is the self-proclaimed company slogan, and by all means – they mean it. Kitchen, service and atmosphere is out of the ordinary. Located in an unpretentious corner building in Vienna Brigittenau, guests have to ring the bell before entering, just like when visiting friends for dinner. On... More

Product • By ClayworksClayworks Demi-Rustic Finish

Clayworks Demi-Rustic Finish

Clayworks Demi-Rustic Finish reveals the richer, more pronounced texture of clay, bringing depth and character to interior surfaces. Its tactile quality creates a sense of weight and grounding, while natural tonal variation enhances the surface with warmth and presence. Expressive yet balanced, Demi-Rustic celebrates the raw beauty of clay in a finish that feels timeless and elemental. Made from natural clay, this finish is breathable, non-toxic, and contributes to healthier indoor environments. Its ability to regulate humidity and soften acoustics complements its aesthetic qualities, ensuring that its visual richness is matched by comfort and wellbeing in the spaces it defines. More

Product • By ClayworksClayworks Tonal Finish

Clayworks Tonal Finish

The Clayworks Tonal finish produces interiors that seem to breathe. Walls are left silky, with rich tonal variations that catch the light and imbue a feeling of motion. The effect can be cloud-like, loaded with subtle sensory interest.Our Tonal finish is often specified as a sustainable, versatile alternative to polished cement, polished plaster, Venetian Plaster and Marmorino. More

Project • By McLean QuinlanPrivate Houses

Devon Passivhaus

Jim Stephenson Jim Stephenson   Planning for this project was won under Paragraph 79, the Country House Clause, with a design taking inspiration from the surroundings.   The overall design is simple and clean. An elegant brick front complements the brickwork of the of garden wall and a discrete front door opening references the gate in the garden wall.   Further down, an oriel window breaks through, hinting at what is behind. Elsewhere, external surfaces are dark render, designed to recede visually in deference to the surrounding garden. Jim Stephenson Jim Stephenson Jim Stephenson   Tucked within, the house has a glass roofed courtyard at its center, a winter garden flooding light into th... More

Project • By kurosawa kawara-tenBars

Failover

We planed the bar in the small building near Gotanda station. The client, their business is installing the network system for offices, needed an interior suited for face to face communication with liquor instead of the online’s one through the display.We had been planning the counter made by wild woods from the forest behind the house originally the owner of this project from. Soon after the project started, the huge typhoon came and destroyed Chiba area. Then countless of fallen woods prevented roads and cut the lines of electricity.We suggested using those woods for the counter of the bar, paying the money to the engineer of forestry for cutting them and the lumberer for making the lumbers.On the other hand, we chose “Ootsu mi... More
Organicly shaper villa

Project • By StudioARCHotels

Organic villa family house and resort el Palol

Design of hotel complex. One villa is currently done, other parts of resort are waiting to be build. More

Project • By StudioARCResidential Landscape

Atrium familly house

Design of bigger atrium, organic shaped house. Construction is made of wood, natural insulation. Green extensive roof covered by grass and small plants. More