Promotion: greater than 9,000 crimson bricks kind a curved quantity throughout the inside of this mixed-use constructing’s foyer, which has been awarded Gold within the Business class on the Brick in Structure Awards.
The foyer, which kinds the doorway to an workplace constructing at Kendall Sq., Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a brick curtain wall that was hand-laid.
It was designed to create a visually placing but purposeful circulatory zone, serving to guests and staff navigate the constructing’s wider places of work, eating areas, wellness centres and group areas.
Wrapping across the perimeter of the inside, the brick-built floor incorporates a entrance desk, bench seating, lighting, an entry kiosk and a staircase. The undertaking options brick manufactured by Interstate Brick and distributed by Consolidated Brick.
Native studio Merge Architects designed the house and was carried out by mason firm, JAJ Co Inc The designers mentioned they selected to work with bricks as a constructing materials with the aim of referencing New England’s native vernacular structure.
The undertaking integrates interactive signage inside hand-laid masonry, “overlaying the bodily world with the digital”, in line with the Brick Trade Affiliation.
A brick double-wythe display paired with rectangular digital indicators serves varied capabilities: from conveying information and details about public occasions to displaying digital art work.
“This fusion of power and transparency creates mesmerising patterns and textures as gentle filters by way of the brick, inviting admiration for the timeless magnificence and up to date attract that brick brings to architectural design,” mentioned Trish Mauer of the Brick Trade Affiliation.
The buildings are made by laying bricks in two totally different instructions, making a stimulating textural floor that encourages the interaction of sunshine and shadow.
“Course one strikes tangent to the wall orientation, and course two strikes alongside the north/south axis, permitting for a posh interaction of transparency and opacity because the curtain-like wall wraps the house,” the corporate continued.
At a sure junction, a gradient is created when the wall transitions between strong crimson bricks to translucent glass blocks of the identical dimensions.
The frosted bricks proceed till they arrive at a glass-clad staircase. This component of transparency creates a light-weight interface between the general public house and the corporate’s workplace.
“Combining transparency with solidity and low-tech supplies with high-tech digital artwork, this foyer reinforces the corporate’s model of integrating excessive tech with human-centric sensibilities,” the Brick Trade Affiliation concluded.
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All pictures by Chuck Choi
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