Kits · a draft
One result, in one box.
A kit holds what one result needs and is named for it. A builder adds it to a project; a tradesman takes it with him.
01 · Stone and plaster
Marble, lime, white cement, brass: each kit is one finish, start to seal.
A wall like the inside of a shell.
Holds Tadelakt · Marble flour · Lime putty · Black soap · Wax
With A steel trowel and a polishing stone.
Care Lime burns skin and eyes: gloves and glasses.
A cast face as smooth as a river stone, in a white that stays white.
Holds White portland cement · Marble flour · Metakaolin · Superplasticizer
With A scale, a mixing paddle.
Care Fine dust: a mask when the bags are open.
A wall that ages like an old mission.
Holds Limewash · Lime putty · Natural earth pigments
With A wide brush.
Care Lime burns skin and eyes: gloves and glasses.
Stone showing through like a creek bed.
Holds Surface retarder · River pebble · Marble and limestone chips · Silane/siloxane repellent
With A sprayer and a stiff brush.
Care Wash-off water is alkaline: keep it out of beds and drains.
Colour that goes all the way through.
Holds Iron oxide pigments · Natural earth pigments · White portland cement
With A gram scale and sample moulds.
Care Fine dust: a mask.
A floor that shines without a coating.
Holds Lithium silicate densifier · Diamond tooling · Guard and burnish
With A grinder or a burnisher, hired by the day.
Care Grind wet or with a vacuum: the dust is silica.
A gold line in the stone.
Holds Brass inlay · Divider strips · Diamond tooling
With A level line and patience.
Care Grind wet or with a vacuum.
A basin that holds water without a liner.
Holds Crystalline waterproofer · Silica fume · Fish-safe coating
With A week of water standing in it before anything lives there.
Care Silica fume is a very fine dust: a fitted mask.
A bowl two people can lift.
Holds AR glass fibre · Acrylic polymer · Silica sand · White portland cement
With A mould and a spray or a hand-pack.
Care Glass fibre itches and silica sand dusts: sleeves, gloves, a mask.
Green on the spout, as if it had always run.
Holds Copper spouts · Patinas · Wax
With A cloth and a brush.
Care Patina solutions are acids and salts: gloves and glasses.
02 · The garden
Start with what is wrong in the bed; the kit is what answers it.
Fire ants colonizing planted beds.
Holds Beneficial nematodes · Spinosad
Transplants failing to establish.
Holds Mycorrhizal inoculant · Worm castings
Yellowing leaves despite fertilizing.
Holds Kelp meal · Fish hydrolysate · Compost tea
Caliche so hard you can't plant.
Caterpillars chewing cabbage and tomato.
Holds Bt-kurstaki · Trichogramma wasps
Aphid and whitefly explosion.
Holds Insecticidal soap · Neem oil
Mosquito larvae in standing water.
Holds Bt-israelensis
Damping-off killing seedlings.
Holds Trichoderma · LABs
03 · The crew
Dressed for the pour, in one colour.
Holds A riding shirt · a short-sleeve shirt · a vest · shorts or trousers patched at the knee · an apron
A draft of October 13, 2026. The pictures show what a kit would hold. No kit has been put together or priced, and none is for sale yet. The stone and plaster materials are used at their makers’ rates and tried on a sample panel first; each comes in its maker’s own pack.
- Prepared by
- NOONDesign ☉ Build ☉ Systems
- Issue
- 09.2026
- Studio
- San AntonioAustin · By commission anywhere
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