Materials

5 min

Brick that breathes

Lime-mortared brick lets a wall dry out between storms. Notes from the Moss Court courtyard walls.

a red stop sign on the side of a brick building

Written in the studio

Cement mortar traps water behind the brick. Lime lets it go.

A softer joint

We rake the joints back 6 mm so the wall catches a shadow line in low sun.

(02) — More from the journal

Three more notes

Have a site in mind? Let’s walk it together.

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Sheet 00 / Index · Drawn in Oslo and Leith

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