"Brick" is one of the oldest building materials, giving people a stiff, cold look. You may never have thought that bricks can also be warm, dreamy, poetic...
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Warm bricks - glowing glass tiles
Van tetterode Glass Studio and Philips Lighting developed together with the "Luminous Glass Brick", through texture and light sense, the ancient material of brick has given new life, so that the "brick" has become light and jumpy from the thickness and solidity of the original material. Moreover, the light color and intensity of the luminous glass tiles can be automatically adjusted with weather conditions and pedestrian flow.
The use of luminous bricks makes this passage have a temperature, the narrow cramped space becomes breathable, bringing a different freshness to the city at night, making the underground space more innovative and interesting, and its dynamic lighting also ensures safety to a certain extent.
▲Daytime and night effect comparison
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Rigorous bricks - parametric cement bricks
When traditional building materials meet digitalization, a collision of "high and low" brings different spatial emotions. The façade of the coblogó office building in Brazil combines the local material of brick with the parametric high-tech imported from abroad to create a digital aesthetic with different textures.
The use of parametric programs allows the bricks to generate a rich rotational arc of subtle variations, giving the façade different size openings and different angles of reflective surfaces.
These optimal combinations of shadows and lighting, calculated through digital environmental simulations, give people a sense of science and modernity.
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Melted bricks – salt bricks
When the properties and texture of materials change in the same dimension, how will people's emotional perception and spatial emotions change accordingly? The test temperature device called dissolving arch "salt bricks" from the vault to the ground changes the shape of the bricks as heat waves or heavy rains invade.
▲Dissolving arch device
During the three-month exhibition, jeju's rain and moisture dissolved the saltstone bricks, leaving only the cement skeleton.
▲The "salt brick" gradually dissolves
As the bricks gradually dissolve, the remaining mortar forms a porous skeleton and allows light to pass through a series of changes, reflecting the change of the connection between man and nature, where the brick is no longer a simple masonry material, but a tool that can be used to measure time, a vessel used to witness the change of time.
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Rock's bricks – aluminum bricks
How does it feel to us when a building is a whole brick? The Rock museum "Golden Bricks" from Roskilde, Denmark, total 3,100 square meters, has a huge cantilever structure that mainly carries the function of the museum, but also accommodates an auditorium, administrative facilities, and a bar.
One of the most striking is, of course, its gold-like diamond-set appearance, "the shiny, angular surface is similar to the rock-and-roll rivet jacket."
The exquisite material combination creates a rocky atmosphere, and the gold alumina-encrusted façade pays homage to the predecessors of rock and roll history.
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A brick that breathes – a grass brick
India's nudes Architects conceived a conceptual design for a secondary school in Malawi, Africa, featuring modular timber structures and curved walls stacked with haystacks.
The use of grass bricks not only encourages the use of local materials and community participation, but also gives the space users a familiar, natural psychological perception atmosphere, and the lighting holes and vents implanted on the epidermis provide the building with a breathable epidermis.
The stacking of geometric shapes reveals the beauty of the building. At the same time, the school structure system is also built of local clay and terracotta clay, which promotes local construction practices on the basis of reducing the difficulty of maintenance, showing a specific regional cultural atmosphere.
Although the project was not the final winning bid, it was felt to be of great significance to the development of the environment. The architect will continue to study the use and promotion of straw bricks and explore 'off-the-classroom' learning environments in the form of amphitheaters. ”