2025/09/15 by Genevieve Baudoin, Bruce Johnson
#masonry #mass walls #walls
paper · doi:10.7275/btes.3372
This paper examines a return to the thick space of the masonry wall. The wall is where a building embraces its context and where humanity can physically experience this nexus. Contemporary technologies applied to masonry construction offer a return to both tactile solidity and the space of interaction between a building and its users. Precedents from Catalan vernacular to Herzog & de Meuron will be contrasted to offer a way of thinking through the spatial potential created through the modularity and specificity of blocks.