Silesia university's radio and tv department in Katowice / BAAS arquitectura / Grupa 5 Architekci / Maleccy Biuro Projektowe

If you take a look on the project De Cammeleur in Dongen, The Netherlands, created in a collaboration between KdV architectuur and Vandersanden, you are going to find the point where do the bricks and architects imagination contributes into the expressive and unusual building.

„The curved façade marks a technical masterpiece of prefabricated building elements. The façade is composed of one story high elements, made up of a self-supporting acoustic inner wall and a thermal, outer brick wall part that carefully form the rounded curves of the ‘Pavilion’. Even the ‘freestone’ windowsills are an integral part of these façade elements."

"Brick provides a sustainable and natural material. The surrounding built environment of the Cammeleur exists of stately villas of former factory owners in Dongen (shoe- and leather industry). These villas are built up of a rich combination of brickwork, alternated with freestone facade tapes. In an entirely new way our curved brick wall connects with these traditions. In this way the Cammeleur, very naturally blends in with its surroundings.”

Read a full article on the following link:
https://brickarchitecture.com/projects/de-cammeleur-kdv-architectuur-eindhoven

Fologram developed a new system that helps to avoid the errors and eliminate complicated drawings. This is a step-by-step guide that provides bricklayers with digital instructions with visualisation superimposed to the workspace.

There has been a workshop in the University of Tasmania, where the students and staff have been working in teams to build a full scale dry stacked brick wall.

„The University of Tasmania, Architecture and Design is rapidly becoming a national leader in the field of mixed reality design, construction and education. Unlike virtual reality, mixed reality overlays the real world with digital information, in place and at full scale. This allows a wearer to interact with people, machines, tools and materials all around them. Mixed reality has the potential to revolutionise how we design and build, and the University of Tasmania has recognised this potential with the acquisition of several Microsoft Hololens headsets.”

„All of these headsets are equipped with Fologram, a mixed reality software platform for experiencing digital models in the real world as holograms. By using Fologram to share holograms with multiple headsets, students and tutors can have conversations about design proposals within mixed reality or teams can work in parallel to construct complex structures from holographic instructions.”

Fologram Talks: Holographic Brickwork from Fologram on Vimeo.

Another collaboration of All Brick and the University of Tasmania has demonstraded an amazing rezult „how augmented reality can be used in the architectural and construction industry”.

„All Brick have collaborated with faculty from the University of Tasmania to design and construct a section of brick wall using Fologram. The wall was completed by two bricklayers working from the same holographic model and saved weeks of construction time. String lines and plumb bobs were replaced with a holographic guide that allowed the brick layers to accurately position each brick in the design. Without needing to leave the construction site, the bricklayers could interact with the holographic model to change the course of bricks being displayed resulting in the project being completed in only 7 hours of bricklaying.”

Sources:
www.utas.edu.au
fologram.com

Letovo, the dream came true

Why Brick?

Landscape-inspired design, shape and brickworks Located in Novaya Moskva, southwest of Moscow, the campus sits atop a beautiful plot of land that slopes down to a forest-lined river. Distinctive level variations were applied in and around the school to integrate the architecture into the landscape.

The shape of the large complex brings it down to a human scale for the children: the building appears to dance across the landscape due to its dynamic design. Due to the perspective effect one only ever sees part of the building's full size when walking around, which gives the impression of a refined scale. The building’s contours and flowing curves create surprising indoor and outdoor spaces as well.

To accentuate this curved shapes and to have the building blend into the landscape brick seemed a rather obvious choice. The natural ingredients of brick such as clay, sand water, air and fire gives the school building a natural setting as if the building has been there endlessly. Brick with its solid and sturdy exposure. We choose a sandy light colored brick so in all wheather circumstances it will have a warm glance.  

Drawings

Letovo School Moscow, level 0 garden level

Letovo School Moscow, level 1 entrance level

Letovo School Moscow, level 2

Letovo School Moscow. Section A

The heart of the school: the central hub

The central hub is the place where day-to-day life at the school unfolds. This flexible, transformable space will be used throughout the day as an informal meeting place. The dance studio on the ground floor can be transformed through a few simple adjustments into a theatre with a stage, a cosy living room or an auditorium that can accommodate 1,000 people for special events such as graduation ceremonies and large celebrations, as seen at the grand opening. This central hub connects the building’s three wings: the art wing, the south wing with science- and general-use rooms and the sports wing.

Learning environment with a diversity in working spaces

Sports programme

Ambitous learning environment

Award

Thousands of art projects have been made out of common industrial materials, but we choose the most expressive ones assembled using bircks. Here we represented a few of our favoutire art-brickworks.

The shortlist begins with an artwork Equivalent VIII made by Carl Andre in 1966.