
Early cavity walls
... considerably in width. Cavities can vary in width from 100mm wide to less than 50mm wide. In cheaper buildings two single skins of brickwork would often be separated by only a 50mm cavity but it was nevertheless recognised that the thicker the masonry and the wider the gap between the leaves the mor ...
... considerably in width. Cavities can vary in width from 100mm wide to less than 50mm wide. In cheaper buildings two single skins of brickwork would often be separated by only a 50mm cavity but it was nevertheless recognised that the thicker the masonry and the wider the gap between the leaves the mor ...
INFORMATION 83 - British Brick Society
... publication of the survey of 'Brick and its uses in the Twentieth Century'; the Editor having taken the opportunity to clear the longer items in his files prior to beginning this series. Perforce the series begins with Britain and obviously with Britain at the beginning of the twentieth century. The ...
... publication of the survey of 'Brick and its uses in the Twentieth Century'; the Editor having taken the opportunity to clear the longer items in his files prior to beginning this series. Perforce the series begins with Britain and obviously with Britain at the beginning of the twentieth century. The ...
Housing project for the elderly in Hanover Röben clinker brick
... Alfred Müller, is only to build high-quality buildings which will create lasting pleasure for the client. This is the reason why it was decided to use a highquality, durable and weatherresistant clinker brick façade. With its brick red colour and changing interplay of shades, the client selected Röb ...
... Alfred Müller, is only to build high-quality buildings which will create lasting pleasure for the client. This is the reason why it was decided to use a highquality, durable and weatherresistant clinker brick façade. With its brick red colour and changing interplay of shades, the client selected Röb ...
THE WALL DECORATION OF THE HIERON IN SAMOTHRACE
... prevalence of black dadoes in Hellenistic stuccoed walls7 and the fact that they constitute the second largest group of fragments. The painted dado, too, would then have echoed the form of the smoothly dressed marble orthostates. The preponderance of red fragments indicates that the walls were pre ...
... prevalence of black dadoes in Hellenistic stuccoed walls7 and the fact that they constitute the second largest group of fragments. The painted dado, too, would then have echoed the form of the smoothly dressed marble orthostates. The preponderance of red fragments indicates that the walls were pre ...
Masonry Construction in Olympia, Greece, during the Roman
... marble fragments. There is also a wall section consisting of highly irregular testaceum, distinguished by its broad joints and narrow bricks as well as mortar with a very high sand fraction. Bricks in modern research are an important tool in dating. Joints become increasingly thicker over the centur ...
... marble fragments. There is also a wall section consisting of highly irregular testaceum, distinguished by its broad joints and narrow bricks as well as mortar with a very high sand fraction. Bricks in modern research are an important tool in dating. Joints become increasingly thicker over the centur ...
Jonathan Sergison on Mario Botta`s brick works Peter Kulka`s
... highlighted the individual brick within the wall, acknowledging the assembled nature of a brickwork wall. As a theme of the family’s social rituals ran through both houses, certain rooms or objects took on particular significance. Foremost was the new dining room in the Victorian house where the wid ...
... highlighted the individual brick within the wall, acknowledging the assembled nature of a brickwork wall. As a theme of the family’s social rituals ran through both houses, certain rooms or objects took on particular significance. Foremost was the new dining room in the Victorian house where the wid ...
Masonry Construction Magazine: Load Bearing Masonry Rises High
... joint was 1⁄32 inch. So even if the joint cracked, it would be a tight crack. To date, no one has noticed any cracks. The corner piers were made from special brick shapes. Early on, L.M.R. realized that building the corner piers from standard brick would require seven or eight units. This was not at ...
... joint was 1⁄32 inch. So even if the joint cracked, it would be a tight crack. To date, no one has noticed any cracks. The corner piers were made from special brick shapes. Early on, L.M.R. realized that building the corner piers from standard brick would require seven or eight units. This was not at ...
a magazine about brickwork and responsible architecture
... in three versions, with varied concentrations of the clay slurry on their surfaces: 30, 60 and 90% sludge. They were laid with the darkest at the top and the brightest at the bottom, creating a smooth gradation. The architects also wanted variations to be built into the new brickwork, to endow the b ...
... in three versions, with varied concentrations of the clay slurry on their surfaces: 30, 60 and 90% sludge. They were laid with the darkest at the top and the brightest at the bottom, creating a smooth gradation. The architects also wanted variations to be built into the new brickwork, to endow the b ...
Brickwork
Brickwork is masonry produced by a bricklayer, using bricks and mortar. Typically, rows of bricks—called courses— are laid on top of one another to build up a structure such as a brick wall.Brick is a popular medium for constructing buildings, and examples of brickwork are found right back through history as far as the Bronze Age. The fired-brick faces of the ziggurat of ancient Dur-Kurigalzu in Iraq date from around 1400 BC, and the brick buildings of ancient Mohenjo-daro in Pakistan were built around 2600 BC. Much older examples of brickwork made with dried (but not fired) bricks may be found in such ancient locations as Jericho in the West Bank, Çatal Hüyük in Anatolia, and Mehrgarh in Pakistan. These structures have survived from the Stone Age to the present day.Parts of brickwork include bricks, beds and perpends. The bed is the mortar upon which a brick is laid. A perpend is a vertical joint between any two bricks and is usually—but not always—filled with mortar. The dimensions of these parts are, in general, co-ordinated so that two bricks laid side by side separated only by the width of a perpend have a total width identical to the length of a single brick laid transversely on top of them.An example of a co-ordinating metric commonly used for bricks in the UK is as follows: Bricks of dimensions 215 mm x 102.5 mm × 65 mm; Mortar beds and perpends of a uniform 10 mm.In this case the co-ordinating metric works because the total width of two bricks (102.5 mm + 102.5 mm = 205 mm) plus a perpend of mortar (10 mm) is equal to the length of a single brick (215 mm).There are many other brick sizes worldwide, and many of them use this same co-ordinating principle.