Rammed Earth
Joseph Crickett from WoodCast Designs is a South African based in the Netherlands who is passionate about making and creating things, beautiful things that celebrate both craft and design.
Starting out in South Africa he taught himself woodworking and spent some years learning the craft from experienced artisans with a focus on bespoke furniture making. Over the years, his creativity and imagination drove him learn and master working with different mediums with which he could bring his ideas to life. Today these are concrete and rammed earth and yes of course wood.
Joseph Crickett
As part of his creative process, he often challenges himself to ‘break the rules’ in order to find new and unexpected ways of using mediums, while this is not always successful, he believes the lessons learnt far outweigh the failure.
Techniques
Concrete
Rammed Earth construction
Mold making
Carbon fiber
Woodwork furniture
Resin
Acryllic
In the media
Joseph has a strong belief in sharing knowledge and has spent time doing so by teaching the craft of concrete furniture making jointly with his peers at the Concrete Design School in Arkansas USA.
His most rewarding project to date has been working on the build of a rammed earth house from foundation to completion, while it required hard work it was the most rewarding project he has worked on to date.
Joseph Crickett
Fata Morgana installation for Dubai Design Week -
Another highlight of Woodcast Designs was the realisation of the Fata Morgana installation during Dubai Design Week. This project was a collaboration between Generous.studio, Hozan Zangana and Woodcast Designs.
The installation is build by using the technique “rammed earth” in which the layers of all provinces are represented. Each structure represents a province and is build from the (earth) layers of the province. By re-using the landscape a sustainable structure is presented.
Objects are available via https://generous.studio/fatamorgana/