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Digital design
The form begins as geometry, but it is already being judged as clay: wall thickness, path logic, weight and buildability.
Studio
Architecture, computation and clay - kept in one room on purpose.
Deramic is an architectural ceramics studio in Ankara. Forms are developed through computational geometry, tested through simulation, then printed, trimmed, glazed and fired in the same studio.
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Architectural ceramics for walls, lighting and site-specific installations.
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Digital form-finding and ceramic fabrication developed side by side.
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Design, printing, finishing and firing decisions kept close until the work becomes ceramic.
Method
One piece, four decisions.
The Coirra 5 sequence shows the work moving from digital geometry to fired ceramic. Each stage changes what the object can become.
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Clay printing
Toolpath, speed and extrusion become part of the design. The printed line is structure, surface and texture at once.
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Drying and correction
Before firing, the piece is still vulnerable. This is where geometry, moisture and gravity make their final arguments.
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After firing
The finished ceramic carries every earlier decision: path, clay body, shrinkage, light, handwork and heat.
From geometry to glaze, the work stays close.
A form is not finished when it leaves the screen. It changes through toolpaths, clay body, drying, firing and installation logic. Keeping these decisions in one studio lets us correct the work while it is still becoming ceramic.
Computation
Simulation-driven, but never screen-bound.
Computational design helps set the direction: rhythm, curvature, density and repetition. Clay decides what is possible. The studio moves between the two until the geometry can be printed, handled and fired.
Design system
Form-finding before fabrication
The digital model is used to test variations before material is committed: profile, rhythm, support and how the object will meet a room.
Fabrication logic
Toolpath as a design decision
Printing is not a neutral output step. The line, speed and order of deposition shape the final ceramic surface.
Material vocabulary
Not a catalogue. A vocabulary.
Texture studies are starting points for architectural ceramic work. They can become walls, lighting pieces, surfaces or site-specific components depending on the project.
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Layered relief
Texture 02
Directional ridges
Texture 03
Open shadow
Texture 04
Dense path
Texture 05
Soft aperture
Texture 06
Folded wall
Texture 07
Repeated cell
Texture 08
Light channel
Open to new projects