- Project name: The brick store
- Design by: modisrivastava
- Principle designer: Ar.Hitesh Modi
- Principle Architects: Ar. Hitesh Modi & Ar.Amit Srivastava
- Client: Jay Jalaram Bricks
- Built Area: 1611 sq feet
- Design Team: Ar.Hitesh Modi, Ar.Vijay Parmar
- Year of completion: 2017
- Photography: Tejas Shah
This Brick story started when a second generation young son joined his familys 40 year old brick company and added his research and technical collaboration with the European company Century old.This resulted in manufacturing of 100 varieties of natural bricks of different colours, textures and sizes.
Brick has
been the most basic element of construction for centuries world wide. Moreover
in Europe and few parts of Asia brick is used quite extensively for Façades of
all types of buildings.As a result
we find a variety of natural bricks in different colours and textures which are
being used from the past 2 centuries and are still existing timelessly.
As a designer it was an opportunity to design an environment which would be best suitable for displaying natural bricks ,hence we thought of a material pallet which is all to be kept in its Original form , without any coating or painting on it ,justifying the principal of exposed brick usage in construction.Hence brick pavers /Hardwood are used as flooring while furniture racks and tables are designed with perforated MS sheets and cheelwood ,keeping all elements of MS in its original form.
The Layout
was planned to give a feel of an art gallery. Different variety of brick stands
(made from MS plates which stand free from the floor) are displayed on the
periphery. They are fixed on the periphery of the showroom, hence displaying an
overview of brick panels of 7’ x 2’ in different colours.In the
Entrance and along the passage light colour brick pavers are loosely fitted in
herringbone brick pattern.
