brick

What are they made of? They are made of variation of clays, ceramic, adobe, sand or mud.
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What are they used for? They are used in constructions to build walls and structures.

How many types of brick are there?

What is the meaning of brick laying // techniques //? Brick laying techniques are the different ways to build with bricks; they depend on the way the bricks are laid.

Describe 2 brick laying techniques Stretcher: this technique consists in laying the brick lengthwise in the wall, by horizontal layers; every second layer will be laid out of phase.

Rat-trap: is a type of garden wall bond in which the stretchers and headers are laid on their sides, with the base of the stretcher facing outwards.

What are their advantages and disadvantages? The advantage of the stretcher technique is that is easy to repeat the pattern, but it has the disadvantage that it can only be used in a thin wall that doesn’t work structurally. Rat-trap, it’s used as a structural wall because can get a thicker wall using less materials and has a beautiful pattern, but it’s a hard to reproduce.

Residence of Claretian Fathers by Affonso Risi

Think a home for priests, today, using extensively the possibilities of brick. Facilitate conditions for creative participation of workers in the construction site. Revisiting old building techniques to find new spaces. These were ideas that guided the design of Batatais. This unique house is located in Sao Paulo, designed by Affonso Risi. As in ancient monasteries, organized the building around a central garden square, with a gallery where the various open spaces. Two sides contain the bedrooms, parabolic arches of brick raised without any mold or scaffolding.