Under Construction: Clay Plastering Workshop

Help us complete our riverside Sauna!

MA Architecture students from the Department of Architecture and Landscape at Kingston School of Art invite all to join them for a special clay plastering workshop in which participants will learn how to prepare and clad recycled clay to the natural fibres covering their hand-built sauna, and add flourishes with individual designs. No prior experience is required.

Clay-plastering is practical activity using a tactile and occasionally messy material. We can provide gloves to those who prefer clean fingers, but please dress in suitable clothing. Other craft activities will be offered alongside, and refreshments provided.

The riverside Sauna was designed and built using locally sourced material as part of recent exhibition, Under Construction by Takeshi Hayatsu & Collaborators and listed as one of the Guardian’s top 10 Design Highlights of the year 2024.

Participants will also have the opportunity to be among the first to visit our new exhibition, Ilona Sagar Other Actors, which launches the evening before.

Book your free ticket here.

Event poster

For further information, email Natalie Kay.

Biography

Takeshi Hayatsu is a Japanese architect based in London. He studied architecture at Musashino Art University, Tokyo and Architectural Association, London. He worked for David Chipperfield Architects, Haworth Tompkins and 6a architects before establishing Hayatsu Architects in 2017. Alongside his practice, he teaches a MArch unit at Kingston School of Art. He also conducts annual summer school in Japan with Grizedale Arts. He is a member of the Design Review Panel at Harrow Council.

Department of Architecture and Landscape, Kingston University. Architecture and Landscape are richly interconnected. The large workshops and the ethos of thinking through making speak of the inherent dynamic of how we see knowledge generated in the productive tension between tectonics and representation. This is a fundamental part of how the department seeks to enable its students through a direct and immediate connection with how things are made, and the nature of the spaces that result.