ClayPonic is a working practice: equal parts ceramics, architecture, and quiet agriculture. We make towers slowly, in small editions.
Independent · By commission
ClayPonic configures itself as an alternative verticulture system: plants housed in ceramic 3D-printed multilevel towers, nourished by recirculating mist instead of soil.
Our material offers slow water absorption and release, superior root oxygenation, enhanced nutrient uptake, and biofilm-friendly surfaces, creating optimal growing conditions while integrating gracefully into architectural space.
They guide what we make, how we make it, and which projects we say yes to.
Every decision starts with what we don’t use: water, soil, miles, plastic, pesticide.
Functional objects should be beautiful. Each tower is hand-tuned, printed with care, and meant to outlast trends.
Our systems are tuned to plant biology and ambient environments, working with the room, not against it.
Designed to inhabit lobbies, kitchens, courtyards, enhancing the spaces they occupy, not interrupting them.
We work in close collaboration with our advisors, our printers, and our clients.
Architect and ceramic researcher exploring how additive manufacturing in clay can serve soilless agriculture and the architecture it lives inside.
Architecture professor and a pioneer of 3D-printed earth and ceramic construction. An advisor on materials and process.