14/06/2013

    De Praatstoel

    18/12/2015

    Parklife wint Cultuurprijs

    28/06/2017

    Gestampte aardewand

    05/07/2017

    Kunstzinnig Vogelhotel

    08/07/2017

    Powers of Ten

    09/07/2017

    Master QEP S.Massart

    13/07/2017

    2de laureaat Destelheide

    04/08/2017

    ART77 - Lieve Ophalvens

    10/09/2017

    Open Monumentendag

    10/09/2017

    Festival v.d. Architectuur

    23+24/09/2017

    Mijn Huis Mijn Architect

    10/10/2017

    1e Laureaat Stationsplein

    10/11/2017

    Architectuurprijs VL-Br.

    14/11/2017

    Narrative Architecture

    02/12/2017

    Publicatie - HLN

    05/02/2018

    Stagiaire Antje

    09/02/2018

    Atelier X

    28/02/2018

    Lokaal Cultuurbeleid

    05/03/2018

    Exchange student - Vahid

    17/03/2018

    Biënnale Venetië

    27/05/2018

    VL. Renovatiedag 2018

    04/07/2018

    Zomerstage - Nicky

    06/07/2018

    Time Space Existence

    06/07/2018

    Act of Building

    30/10/2018

    Ontwerpend Onderzoek

    22/11/2019

    Dag van de ondernemer

    03/02/2020

    Building of the year 2020

    03/08/2020

    Nationale Staalprijs 2020

    27/09/2020

    Mijn thuis op maat 2020

    06/06/2021

    Trade house

    06/06/2021

    Tiny house

    06/06/2021

    Penthouse

    03/05/2021

    Architectura - Praatstoel

    28/07/2021

    Kringwinkel PLUS

    22/02/2022

    Terra Fibra Award 2021

    15/04/2022

    Renovatiedag 2022

    03/06/2022

    Circubuild artikel

    16/06/2022

    Tendens Wonen

    16/06/2022

    Kunstoproep Vierkappes

    28/09/2022

    Plan magazine

    17/10/2022

    Webinar Architectura

    27/10/2022

    Voeding Verbindt

    08/11/2022

    Green Deal

    15/12/2023

    Vacature

Interantionale publicatie privéwoning Landen

The Oldest Man-Made Building Material
Chris van Uffelen – Braun Publishing 2019
“Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.” Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Buildings made of brick are found in very different epochs and cultures all over the world. Always astonishing, the qualities of brickwork continue to be explored by the world’s best architects until today. A key characteristic of the material’s success since time immemorial has always been the ease of planning due to its standardized production and the resulting harmonized building processes. In addition to longevity, amazing constructive possibilities as well as inexpensive and at the same time environmentally friendly production are among the qualities that are particularly valued today. Using computer software solutions, and even robots in some cases, today’s architects are deploying brick in inventive ways: perforated, pixelated, undulating and more.

The featured works from the past and present are a demonstration of how the use and popularity of bricks has not diminished one bit over the millennia, and is even gaining popularity today.

Brutalistic concrete house with softly bent brick cores
The house has been realized in between front gardens and a public park. It complements the two houses behind but also functions perfectly on its own. The specific implantation of the volumes preserves a maximum of openness between the public domain (park, street) and the various private gardens. The typology of a single floor pavilion was obtained by realizing part of the program underground. The open living space at garden level is the heart of the house and has an outside view in four directions. The basement floor has a completely different, more intimate organization and gets light from a sheltered patio that is excavated along the front side. The house is built with atypical building materials. The highly reflective windows and the (prefabricated) concrete elements give the project a brutalist look towards the public domain. On the north and garden side, the two closed brick cores give a rather soft and tactile impression. One of the most striking features of this project is perhaps the ad random use of different brick surpluses. They offer the house a unique striped look and texture.
  • © AST77 | Architecten- en ingenieursbureau | BE 0889.549.188. | Volg ons op