Red House
Suffolk Status: Completed Images: Maris Mezulis
Photo · Maris Mezulis
A detail precedent for manipulating standard brick coursing into a stepped, textured relief to enrich an interior fireplace surround.
- What we like about this project
- Individual bricks project like three-dimensional pixels from an otherwise flat masonry plane.
Materials
- clay-brick
- mortar
Visual identifiers
- textured-brick
- stepped-relief
- fireplace-surround
- masonry-detail
Style tags
- contemporary
- tactile
- material-focused
Visual tags
- tactile
- material-study
- textured
- masonry
- handcrafted
- Geometry
- Orthogonal coursing with selective stretcher bricks pulled forward in a stepped, three-dimensional relief pattern.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing or anchored masonry veneer over fireplace core.
- Spatial scale
- Detail scale showing individual standard brick units and mortar joints.
- Lighting
- Soft, oblique daylight casting short cast shadows beneath each protruding brick course.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, earthen, and deeply tactile due to the play of light across protruding clay surfaces.
- Environmental context
- Interior fireplace surround in a completed residential space.
- Spatial experience
- Close view highlights the tactile depth and heavy shadow play of masonry units stepped outward.
- Composition rhythm
- Diagonal stepping pattern breaks the conventional horizontal mortar grid.
- Style reading
- Contemporary tactile masonry
- Program
- Residential fireplace
- Perspective
- Detail Close-up
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- clay-brick, mortar
- Visual identifiers
- textured-brick, stepped-relief, fireplace-surround, masonry-detail
- Style tags
- contemporary, tactile, material-focused
- Visual tags
- tactile, material-study, textured, masonry, handcrafted
- Geometry
- Orthogonal coursing with selective stretcher bricks pulled forward in a stepped, three-dimensional relief pattern.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing or anchored masonry veneer over fireplace core.
- Spatial scale
- Detail scale showing individual standard brick units and mortar joints.
- Lighting
- Soft, oblique daylight casting short cast shadows beneath each protruding brick course.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, earthen, and deeply tactile due to the play of light across protruding clay surfaces.
- Environmental context
- Interior fireplace surround in a completed residential space.
- Spatial experience
- Close view highlights the tactile depth and heavy shadow play of masonry units stepped outward.
- Composition rhythm
- Diagonal stepping pattern breaks the conventional horizontal mortar grid.
- Style reading
- Contemporary tactile masonry
- Program
- Residential fireplace
- Perspective
- Detail Close-up
- Discipline
- architecture