A brick facade expresses enduring strength. Brick can relate at once to antiquity and modernity. Historically handmade using molds and fired in kilns, bricks are imperfect products that are also strong and consistent: in the aggregate, bricks produce beautifully textured surfaces that from afar appear uniform, yet in close proximity reveal unique qualities of color and grain. The many residential brick cladding products on the market offer a seemingly limitless range of colors and textures that intend to achieve both homogeneity and a custom-made feel.
The raw material which forms the basis of bricks - loam - is typically a mix of sand, silt, and clay with the inclusion of various aggregates. Some manufacturers have replaced clay with lime to achieve finer grains. One brick cladding product on the market is even made of glass - silica sand, soda ash, and limestone. Architects and designers can determine the mix to create the look best suited for a particular project.
Bricks are produced in a range of rectangular forms, with long bricks delivering a linear aesthetic and shorter bricks producing a more blocklike and stacked effect. Contouring can yield a rounded and modern feel that accentuates corners. A range of newly-patented adhesive joints offer opportunities to construct more three-dimensional walls by permitting brick rotation, open butt joints, vertical offsets, or the construction of horizontal and vertical curves.
Listed below are ten high-quality brick cladding products currently on the market:
1. Petersen Cover, Petersen Tegl
The house was designed in the borough of Oporów in Wrocław, in the historic area of the single-family houses. This residential district forms a special substance for Wrocław, because of its unique and character...
2. Linea, VANDE MOORTEL
Clients from the small city Nigtevecht, relatively close to Amsterdam, had the wish to build a characteristic house at a unique location, the historic village center of the town. The village, situated along the river...
3. Architectural Linear Series Brick, Arriscraft
On a rocky outcrop overlooking Lake Memphremagog, two blocks of wood gently harmonize with their surroundings.Two rectangular volumes, one laid atop the other, form a house. The first block resembles a b...
4. D91, Petersen Tegl
A remarkable fusion of contemporary traditionalism and artisanal modernism The swimming pool, sauna, and hot tub are clear signs of luxury in this residence in Goirle, a municipality in the vicini...
5. Kontur 472 grey engobed / grau engobiert, Ströher
The building is located in a quiet residential Masaryk district, full of quality pre-war functionalist architecture. The volume and spatial solution is based on the character and proportions...
6. Miniature, VANDE MOORTEL
A spatial house design for a small Dutch building plot offering a large variety of rooms. This required a non-standard dwelling layout.The transformation of the Delft Railway Zone includes the creati...
7. Contemporary Brick, Arriscraft
This project is the Architect’s personal home. Serving a family of 6 children with 4 still at home, a balance needed to be struck between present and future space needs. The primary form-giver was a...
8. Glass Bricks, Poesia Glass Studio
The entirely transparent façade of a high-end flagship store on Amsterdam’s upmarket shopping street, PC Hooftstraat, uses glass bricks, glass windows frames and glass architraves in a way to evoke the vernacular of t...
9. ROBmade, KELLER SYSTEME AG
Combining the brick heritage of London City with an innovative brick façade built by robots, that is what this façade is about. The designers of this house extension, Evonort and B...
10. Split Limestone, Coronado Stone Products
This beautiful Southern California development features several of Coronado Stone Products manufactured stone veneers, including 3
