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Exposed facades have many benefits: they reduce costs as lesser material is used and lead to the visibility of art. In a similar fashion, a plaster cover on the ceiling can also be avoided if the raw ceiling finish is executed well using good quality formwork. Additionally, the arrangement of bricks in a manner can welcome natural light and ventilation inside the building.
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6 Breathtaking Brick Façades To Take Inspiration From https://arkihive.com/
"Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.” Mies van der Rohe’s words imply the raw, fundamental qualities of masonry that have made brick the epitome of building materials. From Louis Khan to Sanjay Puri, some of the greatest architects have captured the true sense of architecture with their remarkable uses of brick. It's common, ordinary yet says something, is sufficiently brazen to pull off both the straight and dazzling apparel, and has been the epitome for over a centuries. Bricks fit all the conditions, the developed and the developing. Despite the distress in the advancement business and markets flooding with more current construction materials, the old square will for the most part be of high notoriety to architects and designers. Brick is one of the most prepared known building materials that continues to revamp its attributes to remain huge even today.
Architect Laurie Baker was a keen proponent of exposed brickwork. His quote on bricks reads: “Such unique and characterful creations should not be covered with plaster.” Exposed facades have many benefits: they reduce costs as lesser material is used and lead to the visibility of art. In a similar fashion, a plaster cover on the ceiling can also be avoided if the raw ceiling finish is executed well using good quality form work. Additionally, the arrangement of bricks in a manner can welcome natural light and ventilation inside the building. Here, we have discussed 6 buildings with breathtaking brick façade. • The Twisting Veil Harnessing the flexibility of bricks as rotatable modules, Anagram Architects conceived an elevation that allows for ample natural ventilation while reducing noise and providing shade from the intense heat of the Indian sun.
Designed for clients with limited resources, the use of brick was ideal for the creation of a highly complex façade at reasonably low cost. • The Rippled Skin Located on a street corner in Manhattan’s stylish NoLita neighborhood, SHoP Architect’s black bricks illustrate how a subtle articulation of this material can channel light and shade for a striking architectural aesthetic. The faceted panels are not load-bearing, instead wrapping the building as a contemporary skin that pays tribute to the historic brick façades of the area. • The Singular Chasm This olive oil factory in Northern Spain illustrates how brick can also be used to create distinctive architecture via simple massing and a strong silhouette: the two primary functions of the building are housed within two homogenous volumes split by a single void.
These windowless brick façades look solid and smooth from afar but possess a subtle textured quality that provides an added element of richness when viewed up close. • The Perforated Grid WISE Architecture’s office building in Seoul, South Korea, combines the homogenous, sculptural qualities of Pabellón Agrícola Almazara Santurde with the permeable nature of the South Asian Human Rights Documentation Centre. Bricks were laid with slight gaps for certain parts of the façade, allowing light and air to filter through to walkways hidden behind layers of black brick. • The Lattice Layer The simple form of House 712, a private residence in Barcelona, Spain, belies the unusual nature of the building envelope.
With the construction budget reduced by 65 percent, perforated bricks were chosen for their combination of low cost and functionality. The bricks neatly overlap at each corner of the building, expressing the distinctive triangular layout of the dwelling. • The Pixelated Pod Slade Architecture’s Korean home for a young family reveals the versatility of brick as a modular element, speaking to the fluid complexity of architecture in the digital era. As the firm describes, “The bricks provide a very tangible sense of scale and of the making, the process of turning the abstract into the real … the number of pixels determines the smoothness of a digital image; the smoothness of this house is determined by the brick module — the result is a 9,675-pixel house, where 1 Pixel = 1 Brick.”
