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Clay Tile: Projects, Journals & Ideas

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Clay tile serves as both a structural and aesthetic foundation in residential projects, from load-bearing walls to decorative surface treatments. Designers use the material to connect contemporary homes to regional building traditions and climates.

The community explores clay tile through projects that emphasize material authenticity, climate responsiveness, and cultural heritage. Work ranges from homes built with clay tile as primary structure to interiors organized around tile installations as focal points.

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Reza and 2 others

Flower of the Desert

Choosing arid climate and Following Biomimetic design, we came to across a plant that lives in the Namibia desert, Welwitschia which is extremely sustainable in Arid areas and lives about 1000 to 1500 years. The unusual form of this plant keeps the soil under the plant cool and moist. The thick leaves lay on the sand surface and prevent wind erosion aswell.

Nilashri and 3 others

CULTURAL GETAWAY TO INSPIRE

The cultural venue designed in the context of 2020 envisions the ever changing trends of multi-cultural needs of the Indian society. Bharat Bhavan 2020 is imagined to be an exhilarating cultural hub where people from all parts of the society come together, reconnect and help each other grow culturally on a global level.

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Chromatic House

Arrayed in red cast concrete, the Chromatic House creates spatial opportunities that scale from the individual to the familial through a composition of tapering, prismatic voids and volumes, and an expansive embrace of a large private garden.

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UNI Editorial

publishedBlog1 week ago

Quaterna Arquitectos Lays a Clay-Tiled House Along a Valle de Bravo Hillside Above a Stream

In Valle de Bravo, Mexico, Casa Limoneros pairs pitched clay-tile roofs with board-formed concrete, timber ceilings and courtyards cut into pine forest.

Residential Building

Installations

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog2 months ago

Atelier Glushkó Builds an Entire Copacabana Apartment Around a Wall of Portuguese Tiles

In a 36-square-metre Rio de Janeiro flat, structural columns discovered during demolition become the project's organizing logic.

Clay Tile

Architecture

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog4 months ago

Norenaarquitectos Builds a House from Clay and Bamboo on a Colombian Hillside

Casa Barro occupies just five percent of its one-hectare site, preserving tropical dry forest while reviving artisanal earth construction.

Clay Tile

Residential Building

UNI Editorial

publishedStory1 year ago

Tile Nest House by H&P Architects – A Contemporary Home Rooted in Vietnamese Tradition

Tile Nest House by H&P Architects blends traditional Vietnamese tiles, green balconies, and sustainable design, creating a porous, nature-immersed living space.

Clay Tile

Housing