Go BackThe Sullivan House: Blue and white terrazzo floor for the house terrace – Photographs of mock-up
01/01/1995Nine photographs giving a general overview of the floor tiles making sequence. This was the process followed for the production of the tiles by a group of students, under the tutelage of a project supervisor.
Photograph:
- 1) Troweling the blue-colored clay material in pre-made frames
- 2) Metal mold of the flower tile pattern, to be used as a cutter
- 3) Stamping and cutting off from the tile the flower-shape material
- 4) The material removed from the flower-shape pattern & the blue marble paste is now dry and hard
- 5) Troweling white marble paste for filling in the flower-shape voids
- 6) Cleaning off excess
- 7) Removing tiles from frames
- 8) Cleaning the tiles
- 9) The tile sample, after it has been ground. The tiles were ground on site, after they were all laid on the terrace
References
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The Sullivan House: Blue and white terrazzo floor; wooden and rubber molds
01/01/1995
Two wooden tile molds, one with a low relief pattern, another with a carved pattern, and a third silicon mold. All three were used for casting the 800 blue and white terrazzo tiles used for the terrace floor.
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The Sullivan House: Blue and white terrazzo floor; paper mockup
01/01/1995
A full-sale paper mockup of the terrazzo pattern, drawn free-hand in black-ink, on tracing paper .
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The Sullivan House: Blue and white terrazzo floor; tile mockup
01/01/1995
A final-stage test of one terrazzo tile, used as a sample for the final reproduction of 800 more tiles, which composed the terrace terrazzo floor.