Brick facade and architecture

Brick facade and architecture

In brick facade and architecture, brick facade is one of the most used materials in the building, and in the past, this brick is used not only in the body and facade, but also in the skeleton of the building, and it makes the appearance of the building more beautiful.

Maybe no material like brick can make the earth and its color and smell come alive for us. Brick is the only material that can be seen in every corner of our traditional architecture, and it has taken on a new form in every place according to the location and usage. The warm presence of brick in architecture and interior design is not only colorless, but it appears in more diverse shapes and forms. These ancient materials have always reminded us of soil and nature.

Brick has been used as one of the building materials for a long time and is considered the oldest man-made material. The use of brick as a building material in Iran has an ancient history. Clay bricks are the first and most abundant and are several thousand years old.

The beautiful and magnificent examples of the use of bricks in ancient Iranian architecture represent the brilliant progress of Iranians in the production and engineering of the use of these materials. Among these, we can mention Chaghazanbil Ziggurat, Ivan Mada’en, Jame Mosque in Isfahan and Yazd, and Rabat Sharaf (Brickwork Museum of Iran).

Ziggurat of Chaghazanbil

Ivan Madaan

Iran Brickwork Museum (Rabat Sharaf)

Brick dimensions

The dimensions of the bricks are such that they are easily locked and fastened together, this property creates countless engineering qualities, including at the junction of two walls. These features have made these materials to have a unique efficiency in order to implement wide openings in the form of arches, vaults and domes, which have been popular in Iran since before the Sassanids.

As mentioned, brick has not lost its popularity even today, for example, in the Khaneh Qanei project in Isfahan, a modern Iranian style renovation that Chidane has already covered, you can see how beautiful the brick is in every corner. cries

The properties of brick have made it the most widely used material for filling walls, ceilings, etc. The beauty of brick and the resulting pattern of Chinese brick has made it used as a facade inside and outside the building and gives a special identity to the building.

Application of brick in interior architecture

Brick is one of the materials that create a natural feeling in the interior. Due to its diverse color from dark red to pale yellow, brick can create different looks with different feelings in interior design.

The use of brick with a red color spectrum can strengthen the sense of warmth in the interior and can be a good choice for wall covering in always cold areas.

Unlike many materials that require an external coating or a layer of coating for their final look, brick is one of the materials that can be used in the interior without any final coating.
Today, in the design or renovation of interior spaces, the face of damaged bricks is either painted or left untouched.

Brick cladding can be used to emphasize a wall or create a focal point.

By using bricks in a very modern space, we can bring a nostalgic or rustic feeling to the space.

Architects today thought of designing different brick patterns to revive brick in buildings. These patterns are arranged regularly and irregularly, which has turned brick from a traditional material to a new material. The brick facade allows the designer to create thousands of new and unique ideas by significantly reducing the weight of the design shell.

Bricks can be created by protruding or rotating at different angles, or in the simplest case, using facing bricks in different thicknesses so that this level difference causes shading at different hours of the day and gives a special effect to the facade of the building.

If you are building a house, villa or changing the interior decoration of your home, brick is one of the best options to make your home’s architecture and decoration different and attractive.