The ceramic experience is an award-winning visitor attraction and ceramic painting studio

In 1984 Khalili, who had moved to California by that time, proposed to NASA that ceramic houses be built on the moon. Experiments were conducted by Khalili at McDonnell Douglas Space Systems laboratories to show how harnessing the sun could melt and fuse lunar soil into shapes and forms for building applications. A full scale model of the proposed colony was intended to be built in the desert outside of Hesperia, CA, where Khalili established his training school: the Cal-Earth Institute. The research received mixed reactions. Khalili was known as “quite a visionary” and thought of as “before his time” by, among others, the mayor of Hesperia, Jim Lindley.^[2] Only a few prototypes were built. In 1986 the Geltaftan Foundation was established by Khalili in California for further research into earth architecture. Each of his projects achieved moderate publicity, but Khalili’s geltaftan technology has seen little use since the 1980s. This is in part because of the pollution involved in oil firing. The Geltaftan Foundation, and Cal-Earth has since carried on experiments with ceramic housing, but Nader Khalili is most noted today for his work developing Super Adobe: an earth building technique using earth-filled bags as structural elements.

The ceramic experience is an award-winning visitor attraction and ceramic painting studio, on the outskirts of the picturesque town of Crieff, close to the A9,and halfway between Stirling and Perth. Providing childrens activities, birthday parties, hen nights and office get togethers, you will have lots of fun with us – whatever the occasion. Bring your own wine, we can supply food and have an enjoyable, fun evening.