MELTING PORCELAIN

European Ceramic Work Centre, the Netherlands, 2018

This project consists as true material research. Beginning from a digitally-generated double-curved NURBS mold, this experiment aimed to find formal and expressive possibilities within a certain state of the ceramic material. The geometry of the mold presented the unusual opportunity to produce stable objects during the firing process. In addition, an individualized ‘bone china’ porcelain recipe was developed: this special mixture allowed the manipulation of relatively thin hulls throughout the ‘leather stage’.   

Thanks to the material qualities of the porcelain composite, new outcomes emerged on every iteration of the same procedure. 

The result is a family of objects, similarly produced, but presenting subtle variations; haptic properties and the aesthetics of fluffiness are developed from the composite’s unconventional characteristics.