Prototyping Vienna
Loam plasters and acoustic panels, made from the clay a city digs up and throws away.
Vienna's metro expansion brings thousands of tonnes of clay-rich Wiener Tegel to the surface every day, and almost all of it is treated as waste. We used it as a raw material instead, making loam plasters and sound-absorbing panels, developed through more than twenty recipes with additives sourced inside the city, from Japanese knotweed to crushed brick. The result was built at full scale and exhibited.



All photographs by Paul Sebesta.
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