Ceramic Tile System
One square metre of wall covered with 180 clay tiles, each one a different shape, printed on a self‑built clay printer. The size of the opening in each tile sets how much light passes through.
- Where
- TAB‑LAB, Kultuurikatel, Tallinn, September 2015
- Studio UnSeen
- Madis Kaasik, Tiia Vahula, Ljudmilla Georgijeva
- Photography
- Studio UnSeen / Sirp
Ceramic tiles are usually identical; even expensive systems offer four shapes. A 3D printer produces a different shape at no extra cost, so the project asked what a tile system looks like when every piece is unique. The team refused to make a scale model: only real, usable objects give honest feedback about the material. Clay’s fluidity forced the edge angles; the printer’s bed set the module size; small sharp pieces cracked while drying and were redesigned.
Shown in the TAB‑LAB research exhibition at Kultuurikatel, on what the next industrial revolution means for building. Written up in Sirp by Ljudmilla Georgijeva.