Organized by WRNS Studio, Pacific Clay and Cal Poly CAED, the Architectural Brick Workshop brought together educators, students, architects, and manufacturers over a 3-week period to investigate new possibilities with architectural brick, and explore the relationships between the fabrication process, craftsmanship, and calibration of unique visual and textural effects at multiple scales.
The workshop aims to expand the use of brick in the design process, while cultivating a deeper understanding of brick as a primary façade material. The workshop included a series of charrettes at Pacific Clay’s Southern California Production Facility and on the Cal Poly campus, where teams had the opportunity for hands-on experimentation with the tools and processes involved in creating bricks to understand how those forces influence the finished product.
