Brick From a Stone . . .
(Below in an excerpt from a recently published article in Clerkenwell Design Weekly)
British stone suppliers Albion Stone and Hutton Stone have commissioned architecture practice Hawkins\Brown and engineering consultancy Webb Yates to design an ambitious pavilion Brick from a Stone: Arch Revival for this year’s Clerkenwell Design Week.
The pavilion will consist of a striking pair of freestanding, vaulted hyperbolic arches almost 4 metres tall. Each arch will be elegantly crafted from a single layer of stone bricks, measuring only 102mm thick, demonstrating the material’s strength and versatility as a load-bearing architectural product. The arches will also showcase the variety of sizes and shapes of stone bricks that both companies can produce thanks to their investment in state-of-the-art machinery.
