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Strata-banded in-situ rammed earth garden walls with date palms, a visitor walking the shaded route between them
EARTH LAYERS Send your finishes schedule

We supply and hand-apply rammed earth, clay plaster and lime plaster

Wellness, in Every Surface

Earth Layers is a specialist natural-finishes contractor in the United Arab Emirates. We are the exclusive Middle East distributor for the materials we install, and the artisans who install them are on our own payroll.

In-situ rammed earth garden walls

Rammed Earth Clay Plaster Lime Plaster & Tadelakt All 67 finishes → Projects →

Most finishes packages have a seam running through them.

The world's finest material houses sell you the plaster, and then point you toward the right applicator. From that moment the brand that made your sample and the hands that build your wall answer to different companies — two contracts, two warranties, and a gap between them exactly where defects live.

We do not work that way. We are the exclusive Middle East distributor for the materials we install, and the artisans who install them are on our own payroll. One party. One warranty. No seam to point across.

How we are structured →

Seven material families. Sixty-seven finishes.

Every one of them supplied and applied by us.

Rammed earth finish texture showing horizontal strata banding in warm earth tones Rammed Earth In-situ walls rammed in lifts on site — or the same strata as a plaster finish. Demi Rustic clay plaster sample swatch in a soft nude tone Clay Plaster Breathes, buffers humidity, holds its colour through the body. Tadelakt sample swatch in terracotta, burnished to a soft sheen Lime Plaster & Tadelakt Hardens by absorbing carbon dioxide; resists mould by its own chemistry. Polished Microtadelakt lime plaster surface with soft tonal movement Polished Plaster Marmorino, burnished stone, high sheen. Depth you cannot get from paint. Curved microcement pool surround at The OQ Hotel, Doha Microcement Seamless floors and walls in millimetres, over what is already there. Projected cork being spray-applied to a facade Projected Cork Sprayed cork for roofs, facades and envelopes. Insulation, acoustics and finish in one pass. Clay wash eco paint on a bedroom feature wall in a soft olive tone Eco Paints & Clay Washes Clay-based paint with a brushed, cloudy matte. Breathes where conventional paint seals. Sixty-seven finishes Colours, textures and sheens across all seven families. Explore all materials →

Work you can walk into.

Delivered by our own artisans, across the Gulf, Saudi Arabia, Europe and the United States.

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Our work — every picture opens the project Scroll inside — the projects stack over one another. See all projects →
In-situ rammed earth walls at the UAE Pavilion, Expo 2023 Doha, built by Earth Layers crews
UAE Pavilion — in-situ rammed earth In-situ rammed earth walls Architect: BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group 01 / 05
Intersecting polished sand tadelakt arches with warm reflected light at the Calligraphy Museum, Madinah
Calligraphy Museum — Al Madinah Cemher Microtadelakt polished lime plaster 02 / 05
Monumental hall at King Fahad Cultural Centre, Riyadh, with dusty-rose leaf inlays sweeping across cream Microdur Plus microcement flooring around massive columns.
King Fahad Cultural Centre — Riyadh Cemher Microdur Plus microcement, 9,000 m² Architect: WHY Architecture 03 / 05
Rammed earth mosque at Al Kaaban Resort, Qatar, its layered conical minaret glowing from warm interior lighting at dusk above a low rammed earth boundary wall.
Al Kaaban Resort — Qatar In-situ rammed earth Photography: Conmarble 04 / 05
In-situ rammed earth brand wall at the Conmarble showroom in Riyadh, carrying the hexagon lockup and the slogan in relief above the sample arches.
Natural Finishes Showroom — Riyadh In-situ rammed earth, the brand wall Photography: Conmarble 05 / 05
Our work — internationally Scroll inside — the projects stack over one another. See all projects →
Clay plaster against timber and stone at Massara, New York
Massara — New York Smooth and Rustic clay plaster in Brown BRO-03 Design: Sarah Carpenter & Studio 01 / 05
Dining room at Fireplace by Bedrock, Singapore, with rammed earth plaster walls and an open wood fire
Fireplace by Bedrock — Singapore Custom Rammed Earth Finish in Quebracho red-brown Design: Hot Design Folks 02 / 05
Stratified rammed earth plaster wall above the dining tables at Fireplace by Bedrock, Singapore
Fireplace by Bedrock — the strata wall Rammed Earth Finish, laid to read as strata Design: Hot Design Folks 03 / 05
Menu board mounted on the Rammed Earth finish bar at MUD\WTR Gather, Santa Monica, beside plywood shelving
MUD\WTR Gather — Santa Monica Rammed Earth Finish to the bar, in soft cacao bands 04 / 05
Demi Rustic clay plaster in Custom Yellow by at Villa 515, Dubai - restaurant interior.
Villa 515 — Dubai Demi Rustic, Custom Yellow YEL-01 Design: NŌN Design Studio 05 / 05
Rammed earth — United Arab Emirates

Earth, compacted in lifts, until it becomes a wall.

Very few contractors in this region can deliver complete rammed earth projects. We are one of them, and we built the UAE Pavilion at Expo 2023 Doha in it — which took the Gold Award for Best Self-Built Pavilion.

Every wall begins with the soil: tested, trial-mixed, and the final mix design signed personally before anything is built. Architects need the geometry at concept stage, not after the wall is drawn.

640 mm

minimum stabilised wall at a 300 mm column — 170 mm ramming clearance each side

8 MPa

28-day unconfined compressive strength, tested on the governing mock-up

Unlimited

trial panels before the permanent works — with rammed earth, the sample is the specification

In-situ rammed earth — structural walls, rammed in lifts
In-situ rammed earth walls at the UAE Pavilion, Expo 2023 Doha, built by Earth Layers crews
In-situ rammed earth garden walls
Completed in-situ rammed earth guest building at Al Kaaban Resort, Qatar, layered strata walls at dusk beside a bamboo pergola with draped shade cloth.
Al Kaaban Resort, Qatar — guest building, rammed in lifts on site. Photography: Conmarble
Rammed earth plaster — Clayworks Rammed Earth Finish, 7–10 mm
Rammed earth wall showing horizontal strata banding in warm earth tones.
The strata, read as a hand-applied plaster.
Rammed earth surface with open grain and graded aggregate.
Open grain and graded aggregate, trowelled in layers.
Rammed earth showing full strata banding from cream through ochre to terracotta.
Cream to terracotta — every project developed bespoke.
Pavilion photography to follow
UAE Pavilion, Expo 2023 Doha In-situ rammed earth · Gold Award — Best Self-Built Pavilion
See the rammed earth cluster →

Delivery is a numbers game. Here are ours.

~200

artisanal applicators on our own payroll — sponsored, trained, never labour brokers

67

finishes in the catalogue, across clay, lime, microcement, earth, cork and eco paint

48 hours

from bill of quantities to engineered pricing

10 years

of warranty covering material and workmanship together

This is capacity you can programme against, not a promise.

Clayworks, in particular

Clayworks Sole authorised distributor and approved applicator — Middle East

Cornwall, United Kingdom — exclusive to us in this region

Unfired clay plasters, holder of the King's Award for Enterprise 2023, behind interiors that are photographed and referenced worldwide. In the Middle East, it has one home.

Smooth clay plaster in White WHI-03 at Villa 515, Dubai.
Villa 515, Dubai — Smooth WHI-03
Demi Rustic clay plaster in WHI-01 at Toplum, Riyadh.
Toplum, Riyadh — Demi Rustic WHI-01
Tonal clay plaster in a custom green at Aesop, Bordeaux.
Aesop, Bordeaux — Tonal, custom green
Framed Clayworks Rammed Earth Finish sample panels on plaster shelves at the Earth Layers showroom in Riyadh
Our showroom, Riyadh — Rammed Earth Finish samples
The clay plaster page →

The four families

Clayworks group the range four ways. Every one of them is stocked and applied here.

Demi Rustic clay plaster on the spiral stair at Villa 515, Dubai
Interior Smooth, Demi Rustic and Rustic for walls and ceilings.
Curved white exterior clay plaster facade at the Canvas Events Pavilion, Dubai
Exterior A three-coat mineral facade system, vapour permeable.
Burnished green Clayworks Tadelakt at the Penhaligon's boutique, London
Tadelakt Burnished lime, soaped to repel water. For humid rooms.
Rammed earth finish clay plaster showing horizontal strata in warm earth tones
Rammed earth Strata laid by hand, 7 to 10 mm, on a normal substrate.

Textures, running

Twenty-one named effects are worked into the plaster by hand while it is still green. Hover to hold the strip, or see all of them.

Thatched Clayworks clay plaster sample swatch
Thatched
Hand carved Clayworks clay plaster sample swatch
Hand carved
Arakabe Clayworks clay plaster sample swatch
Arakabe
Gold fleck Clayworks clay plaster sample swatch
Gold fleck
Heavy skip Clayworks clay plaster sample swatch
Heavy skip
Pressed linen Clayworks clay plaster sample swatch
Pressed linen
Undulating Clayworks clay plaster sample swatch
Undulating
Raked Clayworks clay plaster sample swatch
Raked
Ombre Clayworks clay plaster sample swatch
Ombre
Travertine effect Clayworks clay plaster sample swatch
Travertine effect
Corduroy Clayworks clay plaster sample swatch
Corduroy
Fluted Clayworks clay plaster sample swatch
Fluted
Moonscape Clayworks clay plaster sample swatch
Moonscape
Clay on brick Clayworks clay plaster sample swatch
Clay on brick
Pitted Clayworks clay plaster sample swatch
Pitted

We are Clayworks’ sole authorised distributor and approved applicator across the Middle East.

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Where would you like to start?

I'm an architect or designer Bring us the finishes schedule. Or start with the sample box and specification kit. For architects → I'm a main contractor Send the bill of quantities and start the clock. Engineered pricing in 48 hours. For contractors → I'm developing an asset Half the WELL scorecard runs through the finishes. Let us show you which points the walls can carry. For developers → It's my home Walls that hold a room between 40 and 60% humidity, with nothing to off-gas into your children's rooms. For private clients →
Demi Rustic clay plaster in Custom Yellow by at Villa 515, Dubai - restaurant interior.

Send us the schedule.

Or the bill of quantities, or a photograph of a wall you liked. Every project we have built started as one of those three.

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Villa 515, Dubai — Demi Rustic, Custom Yellow YEL-01.