The Bricks House
Kinmen, the remote island of Taiwan close to Fujian?was located in southeast shore of Mainland China and used to be military zone during Cold War. We found an ideal living location on the most verdant plain and hilly area in Kinmen. The site is leaning against Kinmen?s highest Mount Taiwu and overlooking at Fujian?s Mount Hongjian, is isolated from the rest of the world.
Photography by © Sebastien Veronese
Pure geometric form immerses the building into the wild surrounding lightly. The brick factory specially customizes the brown three-hole hollow brick, different from the traditional bright red, matches the tone of the landscape. Compared with solid bricks, three-hole bricks are lighter and environmental friendly and equipped better thermal and sound insulation effects. More importantly the brick wall structure can be strengthened by rib bar through brick holes therefore the outer layer ganged brick wall, only 4? thickness, can be vertically built up to 11.5m high. The span of the window and opening is also up to 4.7m. Photography by © Sebastien Veronese
Because of Kinmen?s construction materials supply is dependent on main island Taiwan in distance and there is very scarce local construction manpower. At the beginning of design, it was decided to be built by steel structure which is prefabricated in Taiwan and composed with double-layer ganged brick outer wall in order to reduce the work types and achieving good coordination among different work types. ...