Brick architecture

Project Name: FRAME Architecture Firm: VIRAFORM Firm Location: QOM, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN  Completion Year:2017 Gross Built Area:2500 square meter Project location: QOM  Lead Architects: REZA JAFARI Photo credits:   Ali Esmaeili                    Clients: Ghasem Rauofi In this project, the main challenge was visibility and privacy while providing adequate lighting for the spaces. Due to urban laws, the project land is in contact with the city only in one direction. To solve this problem for communication between outside and inside. We think to consider frame as space. Often each window has a frame. This frame is an opportunity to communicate between in and out. In... More

While designed for a specific client and a site with opportune zoning and planning, Hi-Lo Hybrid tackles a prevailing narrow lot condition along Toronto's main streets. Despite the demand for increased density and housing options on these existing transit and mixed-use corridors, they remain largely underdeveloped, including an estimated 250km composed of existing single-family homes reinforced by low-rise residential zoning and planning. Outdated zoning and current planning policies limit the range of infill opportunities, driving homogenous stacked townhouse forms, as well as outsized mid-rise developments and retail spaces requiring long term lot assembly. Over time these development models become further entrenched. Hi-Lo Hybrid demonst... More

Located on the Lower Campus of the recently established University of Mpumalanga, LHA+UD’s new student residence and dining facility defines the southern boundary of the university. Initially appointed in 2011 by the Department of Higher Education to establish the Design and Development framework for the relatively new university, LHA+UD were subsequently appointed in 2016 to design a new student residence and dining hall for the increasing number of students registered at the university.  The building provides accommodation for 200+ students in a mix of single and shared rooms along with self-contained bachelor units, in tandem with the 700 seater dining hall. The guiding principle was to create a building focused arou... More

Project preschool Lärkgatan in south Swedish county of Bjuv aims for a building with strong connections to local brick building traditions.  The site is part of an old mill community, and the building will speak the language of local tradition. With brick as a characteristic building material for this region, it turned out to be the natural material of choice. We have also focused on highlighting the county´s  tile manufacturing heritage, expressed in the use of locally connected CC Höganäs tiles in the building´s bathrooms. The Lärkgatan preschool project meets the standards of Swedish environmental certification Miljöbyggnad Silver, calling for high performance solutions in ventilation and... More

Oliv plans to revitalize and reposition the 1970ies building in Munich-Neuhausen. The building permit was granted in just eight months of planning and in close cooperation with the client and the authorities. In the future, Gabrielenlofts will be open, inspiring, industrial and spacious. The addition of a terrace floor and a complete revision of the facade creates a gem on Gabrielenstrasse, thus contributing to a new urbanity in the district. The loft atmosphere inside is underlined by high windows and selected materials. The coherent overall concept gives the property a completely new quality. More

New Eastside Munich is a pioneering project in the Berg am Laim district. Oliv Architects are planning a new identity-building office building. The urban structure between Neumarkter Strasse and Streitfeldstrasse is opened and upgraded through a connection. The design plays with motifs from historic industrial architecture to commemorate the former location of a hydraulic factory. Brick, profilit and shed roofs are reinterpreted and break through viewing habits. On the upper floors, the rooms open up to roof gardens and create a connection to the outside space and nature. More

Eclipse Brand Builders designed and constructed the new Commercial Bank headquarters and selected General Shale Preservation Red brick for the classic, two story building. The design also features Arriscraft Renaissance masonry units and ARRIS-cast accessories. More

Completed in 2018, this 650,000 square foot medical center features warm color palettes to integrate with the pastoral setting. General Shale supplied this brick from its Designer Classics line, in Danbury color. More

In the past the living of human being has been besides the nature, but nowadays due to definition of architectural space for living in floors above the ground, this relationship has been almost gone. Also In the past 40 years, the greenery of urban landscape in north Tehran gradually has been missed under continuous constructions.   The main idea of this project was formed through an attempt to find an approach making the relationship with the nature stronger both physically and visually.   In project design process, wherever it was possible to create a green area, an appropriate detail were designed according to the limitations and criteria. Generally, except living spaces and circulation paths, all other surfaces designed to... More