This project explores how the use of clay transitions into contemporary construction methods. Through augmenting traditional brick extrusion techniques and adopting emerging processes of additive manufacturing technology with clay, a series of proposals aim to heighten the sensuous and tactile relationship between the body and the materials of our built environment.

Further, the project aims to critique the flow of London Clay out of the city into landfill, as a waste product of civil engineering tunnelling, and super basement excavations. Instead, the The Earthen Land Registry uses this waste clay to develop a new build house typology and a retrofit strategy for the existing London brick housing stock. Embedded within a circular resource system, the project promotes the use of clay in construction and includes the proposal for a new fabrication facility and public monument in the heart of the city.