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Soft Tile and Brick

Opening context:
Good Materials, Floor Surface, Sitting Wall, Paving with Cracks between the Stones, Connection to the Earth

Conflict

How can a person feel the earth, or time, or any connection with his surroundings, when he is walking on the hard mechanical wash-easy surfaces of concrete, asphalt, hard-fired architectural paving bricks, or artificially concocted mixes like terrazzo.

Resolution

Use bricks and tiles which are soft baked, low fired — so that they will war with time, and show the marks of use.

You can make them in a simple mould from local clay right on the sight.

Closing context:
Warm Colors, Ornament