Grond Studio - We Work With Earth

We work
with earth.

Grond Studio
Fabrieksstraat 15,
1930 Zaventem,
Belgium

eb.oi1713449601duts-1713449601dnorg1713449601@ofni1713449601

AHED

Meet Ahed, she is as you all know extremly strong and does not back off. A sweet fighter is embedded in her genes.
Embodying strength and determination. It’s admirable to see someone who combines both strength and sweetness in their character.

✊🫶✊

@baranzate_ateliers
@fuorisalone

2024

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

4 years of Grond, 4 years of digging, experimenting, creating, building, learning, laughing and crying 🤤😜😋🤧😍

Did you know we started in an old warehouse in Brussels just before the pandemic hit? 😱

We slowly took off and worked on plenty of amazing earth projects. We met so many people along the way and built up great collaborations with them: our strong King Kong craftsmen, the extraordinary ZA family, the wide network of earth-loving people with vision, guts and a true ecological mindset.

Thanks to every GROND gorilla 🖤🦍
Be real, be true 🫶

HANA

Meet Hana, a flower in the eyes of many.
The hope for others, having made many mistakes but fighting for the rights of the oppressed. Her curiosity & Joy sets things in motion.

Lime, gypsum, marble chips

Part of the series ‘ Colonial Warriors ‘ being presented @baranzate_ateliers @fuorisalone
2024

BAPTIST

Baptist entices you to sit down for a short moment. It pushes for a brief moment of reflection and a stolen daydream. Baptist invites you to take a seat, low and grounded, to find a different perspective.

Lime, gypsum, marble chips
Height: 20 cm
Diameter: 23 cm
Date: 2024

@unique_design_x_group @zaventemateliers
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@pierrecoddens @atelier_lioneljadot @dimatelier @krjststudio @pascalerisbourg @serbanserban @studioelementaires
🫶

Snapshot of CATENA

4 geometrical structures in rammed earth
Made by extreme compressing of sand, clay and gravel. 
Catena structures can be shaped and reshaped into an endless variety of objects.
Dimensions: 240mm x 140mm

@zaventemateliers
@openstructures
@bcmaterials_org
@natartribe

We ram, we grind, we bake 🔨 🚚 🔥

For Lisbon’s first passive-hotel designed by @atelier_lioneljadot GROND handled earth in many different ways. We designed and manufactured earth bricks with added cork and wood shaving for a more lightweight texture. We also installed benches with a mineral finishing in hacienda style and an eye-catcher of a terracotta tiled wall for which we created 5 different tile structures in an intriguing pattern.

🐞🐞🐞

Big shout out to the terracotta wall in the hotel lobby. 5 different tile structures create an intriguing pattern. Hand-made / hand placed by Pieter Van Bruyssel & Thomas Eggermont

@jam_hotel_lisboa
@atelier_lioneljadot
@deconinckpierrot
@mircea__anghel
@zaventemateliers
@huus.be
@eggermont.thomas
@marny.dipietrantonio
@cattaneolore
@natartribe

#lisboa #architecturalfinishes #terracotta #cork #ceramics #claytopia #canyougigit

Let’s talk tiles 🗿🐢🧨🔥
❤️‍🔥
Hand-crafted in terracotta clay - 5 patterns

After the pattern design, we crafted our tiles with an industrial clay extruder - which pushes the soft clay through holes in metal plates. Once the extrusion was done, the tiles were cut, dried and fired up to 1100°C. We let them slowly cool down.

4000 kg of clay == 80 m² of hotel lobby & rooftop decoration.

A collaboration with @eggermont.thomas ✨

Big up for the eternal patience of @deconinckpierrot 🐞 ,
Under the wings of the master @atelier_lioneljadot 🐓🙌

#JAMLisbon #playdoh #orangeisthenewblack #extrudedclay #hacienda #experimentation #pushitrealhard #canyoudigit #architecturalfinishes

@jamhotel
@marny.dipietrantonio
@mircea__anghel
@openstructures
@moncolonelspit

So here is our summer tip for you: get to Brussels and spend the day // preferably also the night at MIX hotel 🦇

Set at the former La Royale Belge, an iconic cruciform office building from 1969, MIX does it all: hotel, restaurants, offices, sports venue,... But most of all, @mix.brussels takes you on a design adventure, shaped by the designers, artists and craftsmen of @zaventemateliers ✨ (and many more).

GROND created two immense 3D-volumes at the lounge of MIX hotel. We developed a specific texture (a mix of smoked cork, clay, sand, gravel) to decorate the two volumes intuitively. The door knob comes from La fonderie woit and gives some robustness to our playful volumes. Designed by atelier lionet jadot, featuring the reflection of La royale Belge. Cherry on the (earth) cake are the soothing projections of @krjststudio ✨✨✨

Big shout out to Lionel Jadot and his team for taking the entire Zaventem family on this experience. Don’t know what business schools would think of Zaventem’s organic way of working, of complete trust as our collaboration basis, of working around values of re-use and circularity but in the case of MIX it did result in a distinct melting-pot of creativity and imagination.
⚡️⚡️⚡️

@atelier_lioneljadot 🔥🔥🔥
@zaventemateliers
@krjststudio
@juliettemyrs
@deconinckpierrot

And the great GRONDI team 🫶
@migue_muelas, @carlos_sedenyo , leszek, radek, @robertagalbiati

Those 3 golden shots on the end are from @ambervanbossel ✨✨

Gotta love working with rebellious rammed earth 🐞

Every single time we finish a rammed earth floor we’re mesmerized by how the raw and heavy earth transforms into a warm, tactile surface.

#architecture by @ledroitpierretpolet guided by @sajouae ✨🙌✨

#rammedearthfloor #rebellious #sensual #humble #nature #master #hypocritical #reuse above all 🤌

Earthmix with @bcmaterials_org

Thanks to the team ❣️
@migue_muelas
@davidpresleymoritz
And the great and powerfull Leszek ⚡️🙌

FONTANELLA

The real ‘earth’ deal 💥💥

When a project is soo real and hard core it gives us shivres. The personal project of architect/builder Hanno Burtscher @earthman.at .at is from another world. So honored GROND was a little part of this project.❣️
Magic days working with @c.arlos.c who was “the always on site man” 💪🏻

#rammedearth #voralberg #nogreanwashing #therealdeal #clayplaster
#love #hannoburtscher & @c.arlos.c ❣️💥❣️

Perfect shots 📸 by @lukas_gaechter_photography

KOEKELBERG

250 m2 of perfect red ❣️

It was a blast, from rough to perfect.

Architecture: @bcarchitectsandstudies ❣️

Pictures: @jaspervdl

Perfect red clayplaster provided by @bcmaterials_org

🏠
@jochemdaelman &
@sabine_tonet

#clayplaster #250m2 #roughseas #dirty #architecturalsurfaces #notsolongago

NIEUWPOORT

Clayplaster & crushed pearls 🐚🐚🐚

architecture by @bcarchitectsandstudies

photography by @cafeine

#bcmaterials #clayplaster #pearls #nieuwpoort #highinthesky #bespokearchitecture

In collaboration with @bcmaterials_org , @stijlprojecten

BARANZATE 💥

#oscilator project

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#serendipity ❤️

2022

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@baranzate_ateliers
#baranzateateliers
#zaventemateliers
#collectibledesign
#milanoboom
#designboom
#milandesignweek
#mdw
#milandesigncity
#milandesignweek2022
#mdw2022
#belgium
#baranzate
#design
#belgiumdesign
#belgiumisdesign

@baranzate_ateliers was FUCKING amazing ❤️

BARANZATE 💥

OSCILATOR PROJECT

OSCILATOR is a spatial intervention between sculpture and utility object. It is comprised of stackable elements made of rammed earth, designed to create your own utility sculpture: a stool, a bench, a table, a village, a universe …

The practice of GROND revolves around revaluing earth as a material par excellence in contemporary architecture & design. A mixture of earth, stone, water make a solid mass with which objects, structures and homes can be build. OSCILATOR was designed with circularity in mind on all levels

@baranzate_ateliers
@fuorisalone
@zaventemateliers

🙏🙏 thanks soo much for the perfect shots 📸 @elinewillaert

THE MOHSEM TREE

#sunnyday #loveislife #baranzate #salonedelmobile

#baranzateateliers
#zaventemateliers
#collectibledesign
#milanoboom
#designboom
#milandesignweek
#mdw
#milandesigncity
#milandesignweek2022
#mdw2022
#belgium
#baranzate
#design
#belgiumdesign
#belgiumisdesign

OSCILATOR PROJECT #preview @zaventemateliers

OSCILATOR is a spatial intervention between sculpture and utility object. It is comprised of stackable elements made of rebelious rammed earth.

The practice of GROND revolves around revaluing earth as a material par excellence in contemporary architecture & design. A mixture of earth, stone, water make a solid mass with which objects, structures and homes can be build. OSCILATOR was designed with circularity in mind on all levels

-ready for shipment, @baranzate_ateliers -

#rammedearth #oscilator #17kg #modular #hypocritical #machinebuilding #milandesignweek2022 #collectibledesign @zaventemateliers #speeltijdinmeulebeke #bcmaterials

#Berserker finish 💘🦾🦄

It was a crazy sunny blast this 62 ton earth project for the belgian pavilion @floriadeexpo2022

Big up to @nicolasgodelet for being the best architect & welder on the planet 🤩

#earthbricks #rammedearth #clayplaster #6200kg #belgium🇧🇪

A project in collaboration with @migue_muelas

Step 1 #earthbricks

#nicolasgodelet
#earthbricks #4652 #7kg #compressedearthbricks #belgianpavilion #floriade2022 #canyoudigit

The regenerative garden
By @nicolasgodelet

Thanks migue_muelas & Leszek 😎 for the great 🦾🦾🦾

Like Andy Warhol said;
“land really is the best art”

#landart #eendenkooi #berlart #erosioncontrol #canyoudigit #foreverthere #3ton #rammedearth
#rewilding

#collaboration 💥💥 artwork of @eggermont.thomas

Windows are the future

@baranzate_ateliers

Just fucking #BLUE

#rammedearth #blue #solid
#collectibledesign #rough #hipocritical #canyoudigit #bereal
#300kg참치공장

@zaventemateliers

Ready for 2022 ♻️

#bereal #begreen #reorganizing
#collaborations
@grond_studio @zaventemateliers

MUSEUM CLOSING

This Saturday we will open the doors to the closing of the Musee studios.

With residents:
Polina Akhmetzyanova
Naim Bytyqi
Camila Castaneda
GROND STUDIO
Nicolas Lamas
Rokko Miyoshi
Yuichiro Onuma
Luna Ota
Hans Peter Ploner
Chantal van Rijt
Leander Schönweger
Nina Vandeweghe

We look forward to seeing you from 14h. Drinks, food and music by The Camps will be served in the afternoon, until late.
It will be a special occasion to see everyone post-confinement.

Boulevard Leopold II, 51
1080 Brussels
Saturday 14h-24h
Sunday 14h-18h

🐣+🐣

#firststeps
#newplace
#family
#humble

@zaventemateliers

We hate greenwashing & racists 🦾

#hammertime🔨 #canyoudigit

#before#grond#started
#realshit #bigproject #hanno #carlito

#clayplaster #rammedearth #kalkglätte
#badass #winter #bigmountain
#trowback #biglove

A few years ago Hanno Burtscher & Tobias Fritz organised a workshop "earthworks" in Voralberg (Austria), home of lehm ton erde @erden.at
A great introduction to rammed earth construction techniques by the masters themselves digging deep in the R&D of rammed earth and staying true to our mission.
Congrats to @erden.at , winners of the @neweuropeanbauhaus awards!

A few years ago Hanno Burtscher & Tobias Fritz organised a workshop "earthworks" in Voralberg (Austria), home of @lehmtonerde.
A great introduction to rammed earth construction techniques by the masters themselves digging deep in the R&D of rammed earth and staying true to our mission.
Congrats to Lehmtonerde, winners of the @neweuropeanbauhaus awards!

Pebble 01

#pebble #notsmall #kei #perfectshape #clayplaster #diksmude #collaborations

@eggermont.thomas ✨💥✨

The show is finally on 😷
‘Variations on earth’

Until 17.07.2021 @valerie_traan_gallery

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With:
Assemble
Case design + Aardig Gedacht
Destroyers/builders
Elise Eeraerts + Grond studio
Sarah El Yousefy, David Hoppenbrouwers, Elise Laurent, Kenneth Smet and Anna Zan + BC materials
OS_studio + Het leemniscaat
Thomas noceto + Cinzia Romanin
Unfold

The show was delayed 1 year, but its finally on 🙌
Big up for @bcarchitectsandstudies & @valerie_traan_gallery

A project in collaboration with @elise.eeraerts

For some of us its the normal floor 🐾

Gudrun (founder of @tcoolhof) was all in for this earthfloor from the start. #2yearsold #quickdecisions

#Experimental #rammedearth #earthfloor #roughtextures #diy #collaboration #sisterofmybestfriend

SAMPLE 04 #perfection

#perfection #clayplaster #rammedearth #collorado #architecturaltextures #funky #experimental #bigformat #showroom

#happyeaster

#brusseleir

@bcmaterials_org

🐣

Our terracotta tiles soon online 👋

And YES we will update our website 🤌

#earthtiles #terracotta #colaborations #experimental #terracottaboer

The show must go on 🙌
#sneakpeak👀 #comingsoon

Last year we produced this work of Elise Eeraerts (left) that would have been shown @valerie_traan_gallery
Part of a group show @bcarchitectsandstudies

#rammedearth #bigwork #kastar #throwback #sleepinggiant #eliseeeraerts #fuckcovid

- Textures love this weather -

#Sun #samples
#clayplaster #rammedearth

#hipocritical

#copper #oxidised #clayplaster #raw #texture #recycled #electric #cables
#canyoudigit

#walkonthewildside #bcmaterials #bcarchitects #terracotta #clayplaster #architecturalwallfinish #circulareconomy #11tons

Architects @bcarchitectsandstudies
Clients @sabine_tonet
@jochemdaelman

#berserker

Our favorite texture we found during the first lockdown 👀

#clayplaster #lockdown1 #brusseleir #architecturalfinishes #berserker #vibrant

#PIG-mentation X #clayplaster
🐖🐖🐖
Pull them , Dye them , Plant them

#pigteeth #pigmentation #sample #clayplaster #circulareconomy #texture #wallfinishes #hipocritical #showroom

SAMPLE 03 #braille

“ How you like this clayplaster “

Playing with marbles and braille 👀

#clayplaster #braille #marbles #karaktiles #texture #greyday #nobullshit

Grond Studio
Fabrieksstraat 15,
1930 Zaventem,
Belgium

eb.oi1713449601duts-1713449601dnorg1713449601@ofni1713449601

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