Proctor and Matthews Architects is a studio based out of London in the UK.
Their housing development, Adobe at Great Kneighton, will uses locally sourced brick in alternating light and dark patterns to give a uniform theme for the community. The bricks will set the tone for the 450 new homes on the southern edge of Cambridge.
From the designers:
“A simple and controlled palette of materials will be used across the development. All buildings will share a base palette of “Cambridge” stock brickwork, and will be highlighted with panels of textured brick. Elsewhere materials will be used to illustrate the hierarchy of building types. The formal Great Court, for example, will be animated in places with perforated metal cladding, back-lit at night to create a ‘halo’ around the courtyard and enhance the sense of arrival. Meanwhile, houses in the “Green Lanes” will have horizontal black boarding at first floor levels and red clay traditional tiles, referencing local vernacular buildings and providing a softer edge to the development.”
The studio told Dezeen:
“‘The brick pattern is seen in different ways, rather like a musical motif, knitting the different typologies together despite their wide variety,'” architect Stephen Proctor told Dezeen.
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Thanks for posting these pictures. They seem like great examples of well done brickwork. I liked Stephen Proctor’s statement about the brick pattern in these pictures. You can see that there’s a wide variety of patterns in the bricks that were laid for these houses, but you can plainly see how the builders “knit the different typologies together.” It seems like that’s what makes the brickwork for these houses so great.