Brick Chip Housing

ReflectThe building is in Bedford Stuyvesant, a neighborhood of brick and stucco faced row houses.The design aim was to reflect its historic surroundings by using these traditional materials. ReuseWe wanted to avoid a conventional brick design of stacked units.Old bricks normally destined for landfill can be recycled into chips for landscaping. The design uses these chips as a texture to wrap the exterior walls. ResonateBy embedding brick chips into a tinted stucco base, a variable texture of warm tones and shadows is created. This texture connects the building to its neighborhood context, and recreates the material quality that gives the area its character.