How do you transform clay and aggregate materials into architectural forms?

The Playscape Project Space allows you to get hands-on, experiment and discover the ideas behind building with rammed earth. Rammed earth is an environmentally sustainable building practice which creates strong forms for construction from highly compressed clay and aggregates.

In the Playscape Project Space the techniques for this process have been scaled down to make them more accessible and enable participants to create their own miniature rammed earth forms.

We have provided simple instructions and all the equipment needed. The space is designed so you can work independently or seek assistance from a member of the British Ceramics Biennial team. Participants are invited to add their forms to a landscape, where a new collaboratively built environment will emerge throughout the Biennial.

Play, explore and create with a range of activities that are suitable for all ages and abilities.

Support

The Playscape Project Space has been developed in collaboration with Partners in Creative Learning (PiCL), BCB Associate Artists and Year 10 students from Thistley Hough Academy. Funded by UK Government via the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, which is managed by Stoke-on-Trent City Council.

Clay for Playscape Project Space is partially sourced from the HS2 Old Oak Common station site and was made available with the support of High Speed 2 Ltd and Balfour Beatty VINCI SYSTRA Joint Venture.