Grond Studio - We Work With Earth

We work
with earth.

Grond Studio
Fabrieksstraat 15,
1930 Zaventem,
Belgium

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Catena block by Grond studioRaw black soil
Linseed oil@openstructures

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HannaLime gypsum / castPart of the baptist series
42 colours available 🌈

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Forged from the ashes, this table is a bold act of regeneration. Burned furniture, once destined for oblivion, is stripped of its past and reborn with a raw earth tabletop—formed from the local soil itself. In this collaboration between Grond Studio and Brak Brussels, destruction becomes creation. Each piece is a living protest against waste, a tactile memory of fire and resilience, and a celebration of radical renewal through material honesty.@brak.brussels X @grond_studio
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Baptist footstools 🫶 only available @agoprojects 🌈Baptist is a series of stools that probes the legacy of colonialism and the complexities of ownership. By recreating seats once exchanged in African markets, the project invites reflection on how objects carry stories of power, trade, and cultural inheritance—challenging us to reconsider what it means to possess and value the things around us.42 colours available 🌈

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The Catena rammed earth blocks are inspired by the playful blocks you often find at a doctor’s office, where children play while they wait. By using that familiar, recognizable shape, they create an atmosphere of calm and security. This doesn’t just help in constructing a physical structure, but also contributes to mental well-being, as people feel more comfortable and safe in such a space. The playful nature of the blocks encourages interaction, collaboration, and creativity, which has a positive effect on the well-being of the users. In this way, building with earth is not only sustainable and circular, but also healing and supportive for the mind@tempo_gallery
@zaventemateliers
@bc_asm
@stan.huaux 📸

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The Catena rammed earth blocks are inspired by the playful blocks you often find at a doctor’s office, where children play while they wait. By using that familiar, recognizable shape, they create an atmosphere of calm and security. This doesn’t just help in constructing a physical structure, but also contributes to mental well-being, as people feel more comfortable and safe in such a space. The playful nature of the blocks encourages interaction, collaboration, and creativity, which has a positive effect on the well-being of the users. In this way, building with earth is not only sustainable and circular, but also healing and supportive for the mind.@tempo_gallery
@zaventemateliers
@stan.huaux 📸

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#It’s time for change in the construction sector. Companies like Blaton and B6 repeatedly cross the line, yet they keep getting away with it. Enough of this exploitation of undocumented workers. No more empty words. No more workshops or PR stunts. Big names preaching social justice while trampling on people. This has to stop. They live in luxury while we do the dirty work. We must stop shielding those companies from accountability. No double agendas. This isn’t about shouting ‘Free Palestine’ to distract. It’s time for real action. We demand fair wages, safe working conditions, and respect for everyone. Let the voices of the workers be heard, not the big players. It’s time to wake up and act. Together for a fair future.”🫶

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Love is life🦍

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Ou children subtly and profoundly change their parents’ behavior as a form of unconscious reaction, often serving as a critique of parental and societal patterns rooted in deeper realities. This dynamic reflects a sensitive reality grounded in emotional and psychological exchanges, where children absorb not just parental words but the unspoken fears, struggles, and unresolved complexities carried by their parents. Unlike our ancestors who lived in more grounded, tribal environments intimately connected with realness and tangible nature, contemporary parents and children navigate a world layered with psychological and cultural burdens that influence their interactions in complex ways.
Our ancestors’ tribal life was embedded in a shared reality where values and behaviors were directly tied to survival, community cohesion, and tangible experiences. Parenting then was less about managing unconscious emotional legacies and more about collective living and immediacy with the natural world. Today, children reflect and respond to the hidden emotional struggles and societal conditioning their parents carry, often as a critique manifested through behavioral reactions that compel parents to confront parts of themselves otherwise unacknowledged. This exchange reveals a fragile reality that acknowledges how parenting is not just about nurturing but negotiating inherited psychic imprints and cultural dissonances—an evolution far from the groundedness of tribal roots, but rooted in the realness of human psychological development and societal complexity.
Thus, children act as mirrors and catalysts of change, unconsciously challenging parents to either face or reinforce the emotional legacies bequeathed by their own upbringing, society, and historical shifts away from the primal tribal essence. This sensitive reality underscores the tension between ancestral groundedness and modern psychological complexities in shaping parenting and family dynamics🫶

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Catena block By Grond StudioRammed earth
24 x 14 cm“ Anthropocene Adhocsism “Lionel Jadot’s exhibition at Maison et Objet was more than a showcase. it was a conversation. A raw exploration of materials often overlooked: asphalt, salt, papier-mâché, and eggplant leather—each telling its own story of reuse, resilience, and transformation.Together with Grond Studio’s brute honesty and uncompromising approach to craft, this collaboration becomes a statement on the possibilities of design rooted in sustainability and local production. It’s not about polished perfection but about the truth found in texture, imperfection, and time.In a world eager for the new and shiny, this project asks us to reconsider value—where it comes from, and what it means to give something a second life. Lionel Jadot and Grond Studio don’t just make objects; they build narratives, connecting the past with a future that feels urgent, fragile, and hopeful all at once.This is design that respects materials, embraces process, and invites us to slow down, look closer, and engage differently.@atelier_lioneljadot
@zaventemateliers
@maisonetobjet
@tempo_gallery
@openstructures

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Rough brown rammed earth patina with @brak.brussels 🥔#sneakpeak@brak.brussels

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CATENACatena block by Grond StudioRammed earth,
24 x 14 cm2025@tempo_gallery@zaventemateliers@openstructures@bcmaterials_org

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Saint Anthony Parish in Wavre, Belgium just got a jolt.A curved rammed earth wall 11.5 meters long, 5 meters high and 45 cm thick now sits wrapped in plastic like a beast ready to break out.No frills just muscle anchored on a concrete base.Inside the wall an inox time capsule holds the secrets locked in for the next generation of rebels and dreamers. 🪐#grondstudio #rammedearth #architecture #construction #saintanthonywavre #50tons@bouwbedrijfkeulenh
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Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam commissioned OpenStructures for an adaptable interior design of their New Store initiative. Based on our design for the previous edition of New Store 1.0 the existing elements were reused and adapted to fit an experimental hairdresser’s saloon. In collaboration with Studio Jeroen Wand, the former shop elements were adapted and complemented with parts by Grond Studio and transformed into an illuminated mirror and several display cabinets.With the New Store 2.0, which was presented at Milan Design Week 2024, Nieuwe Instituut imagined a store where shopping helps the environment instead of harming it. In this second iteration of the experimental pop-up shop, located at socio-cultural centre Stecca 3, Nieuwe Instituut tested once again alternative forms of exchange. Can a store help our planet to sustain life, instead of just consuming natural resources? Can shopping ever contribute to the regeneration of the living world? Nieuwe Instituut’s New Store 2.0 investigates a new value economy, another step towards such a regenerative scenario. Later this year The New Store will find a permanent place at Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam.Shop interior by OS Studio and Jeroen Wand at stecca 3@nieuweinstituut
@steccatre@openstructures
@studiojeroenwandPictures: Cristiano cortes & Giulia Virgara
Graphic design: Cengiz Mengüç
Exhebition consultant: @frankverkade

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#blue#berserker#earth#cork#sampler#facade

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In Grond Studio, ethics and aesthetics are deeply interconnected, shaping both the creative process and the final output. Ethics influences the studio’s commitment to sustainable design practices, ensuring that every project respects environmental and social responsibilities. Aesthetics, on the other hand, guides the visual and sensory appeal of the work, striving for beauty, harmony, and innovation. Together, these principles create a balance where design is not only visually striking but also conscious of its impact on the world, promoting thoughtful, responsible creativity.🖤

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PLANET EARTH 🪐2024@ambervanbossel 📸

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PLANET EARTH 🪐2024@fuorisalone
@baranzate_ateliers@ambervanbossel 📸

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The Catena table pays homage to the natural essence of our local environment, intertwining soil from the region with rugged wooden slabs to unveil the beauty of raw earth and natural wood. Each piece reveres its original shape and grain, tenderly preserving its inherent character.These distinct tables, each unique in its own right, not only epitomize exceptional craftsmanship but also narrate the story of the land from which they emerge. They evoke a profound sense of connection and rootedness in any space they grace.Crafted from resources sourced in the vicinity of Brussels, including both wood and earth elements, the Catena table tops and legs are a testament to our commitment to sustainability. We meticulously select fallen beach trees, celebrated worldwide for their majestic stature, ensuring that our creations honor nature’s magnificence.Catena T 01 table (black)
Dimension: 425 cm x 20/63 cmRaw beech wood // Raw earth Catena
Protection: Linseed oilEach table is a one-of-a-kind creation.Pictures: @alexander_dhiet

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Pentagon shapes out of black rammed earth in the back, being accompanied by Hana & A rough beachwood treebase that will serve as a leg for a future Catena table.In the center you find a true masterpiece. A tabletop out of american wallnut where the small nut is filled with raw earth and being treated with natural linseed oil. Having a beautifull set of Catena legs made out of brussels raw earth underneath.Around you find 4 stools made out of rammed earth dug up & produced in Brussels together with our solid friend rikkert. Using doorframes as a formwork for these pieces, playing to find the right composition.Besides appreciating its solidity after slamming a door or marking your kids’ height evolution, a door frame doesn’t appear to be the most noteworthy of all materials.In collaboration with Rikkert Paauw, the formwork for the rammed earth blocks ‘Edition of 60’ was spiced up with discarded door frames. It adds movement and finesse to the heavy and solid earth.The first 4 pieces were presented @baranzate_ateliersIt just takes an open mind, a detailed eye and nifty hands.@rikkertpaauw 🧡🦧🧡

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A tribute to NICK ✨The orange hood of a 2002 BMW from the year 1974, we used as a topping for this 1.8 ton table out of red rammed earth. @baranzate_ateliers this was our center piece making a tribute to Nick who drove the car in his early days. Flying around with the beautifull sound of this orange creature. Nick who is fighting for his life at the moment …🫶 we send 🫶A true spirit
a gentle soul🖤🦍🖤

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OPAMeet OPA, always in for endless play. A kind soul walking this planet earth that loves life and searches for humanity. Lost on 3 legs in a world that has changed since a colonial button was pushed. Build in 1912 serving as a milk chair in the flemish ardennes. Searching love and spreading endless joy.Opa’s spirit shines bright ✨

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Planet earthUnder construction🖤🦍🖤Pictures by @ambervanbossel ✨✨🫶

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@baranzate_ateliers
@fuorisalone2024

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY4 years of Grond, 4 years of digging, experimenting, creating, building, learning, laughing and crying 🤤😜😋🤧😍Did you know we started in an old warehouse in Brussels just before the pandemic hit? 😱We slowly took off and worked on plenty of amazing earth projects. We met so many people along the way and built up great collaborations with them: our strong King Kong craftsmen, the extraordinary ZA family, the wide network of earth-loving people with vision, guts and a true ecological mindset.Thanks to every GROND gorilla 🖤🦍
Be real, be true 🫶

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HANAMeet Hana, a flower in the eyes of many.
The hope for others, having made many mistakes but fighting for the rights of the oppressed. Her curiosity & Joy sets things in motion.Lime, gypsum, marble chipsPart of the series ‘ Colonial Warriors ‘ being presented @baranzate_ateliers @fuorisalone
2024

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BAPTISTBaptist entices you to sit down for a short moment. It pushes for a brief moment of reflection and a stolen daydream. Baptist invites you to take a seat, low and grounded, to find a different perspective.Lime, gypsum, marble chips
Height: 20 cm
Diameter: 23 cm
Date: 2024@unique_design_x_group @zaventemateliers
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@pierrecoddens @atelier_lioneljadot @dimatelier @krjststudio @pascalerisbourg @serbanserban @studioelementaires
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Snapshot of CATENA4 geometrical structures in rammed earth
Made by extreme compressing of sand, clay and gravel. 
Catena structures can be shaped and reshaped into an endless variety of objects.
Dimensions: 240mm x 140mm@zaventemateliers
@openstructures
@bcmaterials_org
@natartribe

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We ram, we grind, we bake 🔨 🚚 🔥For Lisbon’s first passive-hotel designed by @atelier_lioneljadot GROND handled earth in many different ways. We designed and manufactured earth bricks with added cork and wood shaving for a more lightweight texture. We also installed benches with a mineral finishing in hacienda style and an eye-catcher of a terracotta tiled wall for which we created 5 different tile structures in an intriguing pattern.🐞🐞🐞Big shout out to the terracotta wall in the hotel lobby. 5 different tile structures create an intriguing pattern. Hand-made / hand placed by Pieter Van Bruyssel & Thomas Eggermont#lisboa #architecturalfinishes #terracotta #cork #ceramics #claytopia #canyougigit

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@openstructures

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Let’s talk tiles 🗿🐢🧨🔥
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Hand-crafted in terracotta clay - 5 patternsAfter the pattern design, we crafted our tiles with an industrial clay extruder - which pushes the soft clay through holes in metal plates. Once the extrusion was done, the tiles were cut, dried and fired up to 1100°C. We let them slowly cool down.4000 kg of clay == 80 m² of hotel lobby & rooftop decoration.A collaboration with @eggermont.thomas ✨Big up for the eternal patience of @deconinckpierrot 🐞 ,
Under the wings of the master @atelier_lioneljadot 🐓🙌#JAMLisbon #playdoh #orangeisthenewblack #extrudedclay #hacienda #experimentation #pushitrealhard #canyoudigit #architecturalfinishes@jamhotel
@marny.dipietrantonio
@mircea__anghel
@openstructures
@moncolonelspit

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So here is our summer tip for you: get to Brussels and spend the day // preferably also the night at MIX hotel 🦇Set at the former La Royale Belge, an iconic cruciform office building from 1969, MIX does it all: hotel, restaurants, offices, sports venue,... But most of all, @mix.brussels takes you on a design adventure, shaped by the designers, artists and craftsmen of @zaventemateliers ✨ (and many more).GROND created two immense 3D-volumes at the lounge of MIX hotel. We developed a specific texture (a mix of smoked cork, clay, sand, gravel) to decorate the two volumes intuitively. The door knob comes from La fonderie woit and gives some robustness to our playful volumes. Designed by atelier lionet jadot, featuring the reflection of La royale Belge. Cherry on the (earth) cake are the soothing projections of @krjststudio ✨✨✨Big shout out to Lionel Jadot and his team for taking the entire Zaventem family on this experience. Don’t know what business schools would think of Zaventem’s organic way of working, of complete trust as our collaboration basis, of working around values of re-use and circularity but in the case of MIX it did result in a distinct melting-pot of creativity and imagination.
⚡️⚡️⚡️@atelier_lioneljadot 🔥🔥🔥
@zaventemateliers
@krjststudio
@juliettemyrs
@deconinckpierrotAnd the great GRONDI team 🫶
@migue_muelas, @carlos_sedenyo , leszek, radek, @robertagalbiatiThose 3 golden shots on the end are from @ambervanbossel ✨✨

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Gotta love working with rebellious rammed earth 🐞Every single time we finish a rammed earth floor we’re mesmerized by how the raw and heavy earth transforms into a warm, tactile surface.#architecture by @ledroitpierretpolet guided by @sajouae ✨🙌✨#rammedearthfloor #rebellious #sensual #humble #nature #master #hypocritical #reuse above all 🤌Earthmix with @bcmaterials_orgThanks to the team ❣️
@migue_muelas
@davidpresleymoritz
And the great and powerfull Leszek ⚡️🙌

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FONTANELLAThe real ‘earth’ deal 💥💥When a project is soo real and hard core it gives us shivres. The personal project of architect/builder Hanno Burtscher founder of earthman is from another world. So honored GROND was a little part of this project.❣️
Magic days working with carlito who was “the always on site man” 💪🏻#rammedearth #voralberg #nogreanwashing #therealdeal #clayplaster
#love #hannoburtscher & @c.arlos.c ❣️💥❣️Perfect shots 📸 by @lukas_gaechter_photography

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KOEKELBERG250 m2 of perfect red ❣️It was a blast, from rough to perfect.Architecture: @bcarchitectsandstudies ❣️Pictures: @jaspervdlPerfect red clayplaster provided by @bcmaterials_org🏠
@jochemdaelman &
@sabine_tonet#clayplaster #250m2 #roughseas #dirty #architecturalsurfaces #notsolongago

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NIEUWPOORTClayplaster & crushed pearls 🐚🐚🐚architecture by @bcarchitectsandstudiesphotography by @cafeine#bcmaterials #clayplaster #pearls #nieuwpoort #highinthesky #bespokearchitectureIn collaboration with @bcmaterials_org , @stijlprojecten

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BARANZATE 💥#oscilator project…#serendipity ❤️2022…@baranzate_ateliers
#baranzateateliers
#zaventemateliers
#collectibledesign
#milanoboom
#designboom
#milandesignweek
#mdw
#milandesigncity
#milandesignweek2022
#mdw2022
#belgium
#baranzate
#design
#belgiumdesign
#belgiumisdesign

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BARANZATE 💥OSCILATOR PROJECTOSCILATOR is a spatial intervention between sculpture and utility object. It is comprised of stackable elements made of rammed earth, designed to create your own utility sculpture: a stool, a bench, a table, a village, a universe …The practice of GROND revolves around revaluing earth as a material par excellence in contemporary architecture & design. A mixture of earth, stone, water make a solid mass with which objects, structures and homes can be build. OSCILATOR was designed with circularity in mind on all levels@baranzate_ateliers
@fuorisalone
@zaventemateliers🙏🙏 thanks soo much for the perfect shots 📸 @elinewillaert

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THE MOHSEM TREE#sunnyday #loveislife #baranzate #salonedelmobile#baranzateateliers
#zaventemateliers
#collectibledesign
#milanoboom
#designboom
#milandesignweek
#mdw
#milandesigncity
#milandesignweek2022
#mdw2022
#belgium
#baranzate
#design
#belgiumdesign
#belgiumisdesign

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OSCILATOR PROJECT #preview @zaventemateliersOSCILATOR is a spatial intervention between sculpture and utility object. It is comprised of stackable elements made of rebelious rammed earth.The practice of GROND revolves around revaluing earth as a material par excellence in contemporary architecture & design. A mixture of earth, stone, water make a solid mass with which objects, structures and homes can be build. OSCILATOR was designed with circularity in mind on all levels-ready for shipment, @baranzate_ateliers -#rammedearth #oscilator #17kg #modular #hypocritical #machinebuilding #milandesignweek2022 #collectibledesign @zaventemateliers #speeltijdinmeulebeke #bcmaterials

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#Berserker finish 💘🦾🦄It was a crazy sunny blast this 62 ton earth project for the belgian pavilion @floriadeexpo2022Big up to @nicolasgodelet for being the best architect & welder on the planet 🤩#earthbricks #rammedearth #clayplaster #6200kg #belgium🇧🇪A project in collaboration with @migue_muelas

Grond Studio
Fabrieksstraat 15,
1930 Zaventem,
Belgium

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