year
2018

location
Barcelona

Discovering Terrazzo 

Jesmonite experimentation

'Determination is key'

While working on a university project I found myself in need of creating ‘terrazzo’ like tables for a mockup. 

As I’ve always been interested in materials, colours and textures, I took this opportunity as a challenge to find a way to create exactly what I was thinking of. And this way I met ‘Jesmonite’.

Jesmonite is a synthetic material that allows you to give it the colour you want, that dries fast no matter the volume of the piece you’re creating and that is durable and strong.

The process was kind of hard to get used to at first, mostly because in order to get the different colours you had to mix acrylic paints with the material when it’s still liquid and that was difficult to get right. Also, when mixing it with the base jesmonite afterwards, the colours would fade and mix up if you didn’t do it fast enough.

In the end though, I managed to improve the technique and now I find it a very smooth and different way to represent my ideas, as much as I would like to create even more pieces and dig deeper in the sea of possibilities that this material offers.


 Images of the process


Final composition where the Jesmonite sample is placed next to the rest of the space textures and colour palette

To see how the Jesmonite tables were implemented check this other project out :)