Terrazzo

Contemporary terrazzo offers a much broader design vocabulary. Changes in aggregate, scale, colour and finish can completely alter its character. New manufacturing technologies have expanded those possibilities further, allowing terrazzo to move between large surfaces, modular formats and precisely cut geometric elements. This is where I find the material particularly interesting.

Rather than treating terrazzo simply as a surface finish, I often explore it as a component within a larger composition. Waterjet cutting allows familiar slabs to become circles, arcs, triangles and more complex geometric forms. Those elements can then repeat, rotate and connect, creating patterns that reference decorative flooring traditions without reproducing them.

Terrazzo also rewards close observation. Aggregate creates movement that no drawing can fully control. Small variations interrupt precise geometry and prevent repetition from becoming mechanical. This tension between designed order and material irregularity gives terrazzo much of its character.

Perhaps that explains its remarkable longevity. Terrazzo belongs to architectural history, yet it has never remained fixed within it. Each generation has found another way to work with its simple underlying principle.

My interest lies in continuing that conversation. Not recreating historic terrazzo, but understanding its visual language and considering where contemporary design and manufacturing might take it next.