Klei Soul Clinic by Rhisdiah Van Wyk is a clay art and wellness centre where making, movement and reflection are treated as one architectural journey.
The project uses clay as both a real material and a metaphor. Visitors move from heavier, active studio spaces into quieter upper areas for yoga, pilates and contemplative therapies.
Project gallery
The gallery shows how the project develops clay, craft, section and atmosphere into a wellbeing-focused architectural proposal.
Project overview
Rhisdiah graduated from the University of the West of England with First Class Honours in Architecture and Planning. The original profile also notes planning-sector experience and a semi-finalist placing in a national competition.
The strongest part of the project is the connection between material and programme. Clay is not just a texture. It explains the building’s idea of transformation, from raw and messy making to more reflective forms of wellbeing.
How the spatial journey works
- Ground-floor pottery studios create a robust, social and hands-on start to the building.
- Brick and heavier materials give the lower spaces a grounded, tactile character.
- Upper levels become lighter, with timber, softer finishes and calmer wellbeing spaces.
- Movement through the building mirrors the process of shaping clay into something more refined.
Why the project feels credible
Wellbeing projects can become vague if they rely only on soft language. Klei Soul Clinic works better because the programme is specific: pottery, making, therapy, yoga, pilates and spaces for pause.
That gives the reader something to test. The project is not simply saying that architecture can heal. It shows how creative activity, material contact and quieter movement might support people in different ways.
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- Explain the user journey in plain language.
- Show how material choices support the programme.
- Make care specific, not just atmospheric.
- Use sections and images that reveal how people move through the project.
Architecture Social view
Stephen’s recruiter view is that a material concept has to earn its place. If clay shapes the whole building, the reader should see it in the programme, section, atmosphere and user journey.
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