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The Brick Patterns of Tabriz
A research trip to Tabriz’s bazaar and historic houses to document bricklaying techniques.
Before designing the Tabriz brick apartments, our team spent a week documenting the city’s historic brickwork.
Variety within simplicity
From a single brick unit, Tabriz masons created dozens of patterns, from plain stretcher bond to intricate knots in the bazaar vaults. Most rely on small rotations or setbacks of individual bricks.
From survey to design
We recorded more than forty patterns in a digital library. Three of them, adapted, went into the apartment façade.
We are making this library available to interested students and researchers.
