3.010 Process

Migrating Matter

Clay is an integral part of soil composition - alongside its other constituent parts of sand, silt, and organic material. London rests on ancient seabed clay, deposited 56-34 million years ago through glacial movements during the Eocene epoch.

If the built environment creates continual networks of material migration of earth and stone - the importation and exportation of building materials - how can we intervene to divert excavated matter back to site as usable material? This exploration outlines our initial investigations into developing a scalable process of harvesting clay out of site excavated soil.

The River Brent

Brent Park's soil sample collection

Separation of sand, silt, and clay in water

Filtering clay out of water

3.012 Process
Stockpile Garden

3.011 Process
Fire and Earth

3.009 Process
Form on form on form

3.008 Process
Imperial Measurements

3.007 Process
Mycelia Inter Alia

3.006 Process
Walls that let the wind blow through

3.005 Process
Sticks and Stones

3.001 Process
Concrete Aggregates

3.005 Process
Kinetic Sand

3.003 Process
Moving Rivers

3.002 Process
Jesmonite Casting