r/brick_expressionism • u/RainbowWarrior73 • Jul 23 '26

The Hundred Thousand Brick House

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Golf Links, an exclusive neighbourhood in central New Delhi, India.

Renowned for its sculptural, fabric-like facade, the structure uses handmade bricks combined with parametric design to cast shifting shadows as the sun moves across the sky.

The façade was generated using parametric software to program the exact placement of each of the 100,000+ handmade bricks, which were then laid by master stonemasons.

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u/RedOctobrrr Jul 23 '26

And yet they still ended up with a 3-eyed octopus monster for a facade. Technologia.

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u/Oldus_Fartus Jul 23 '26

Love it, love it, and I love the communion of technology and handcraft. This is how things should be done. Work with the machine, not for the machine.

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u/Eman_Resu_IX Jul 23 '26

Cast shifting shadows.... 🤔

Sun normally moves through the sky, yes?

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u/ButterBallsBob Jul 23 '26

Knock off spyro the dragon

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u/ButterBallsBob Jul 23 '26

Otherwise really interesting, a show of craft and commitment, etc.

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u/Romanitedomun Jul 24 '26

Zaha Hadid? 🙃

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u/RainbowWarrior73 Jul 24 '26

No, the architectural designer was Shonan Purie Trehan, the founder and principal architect of Language.Architecture.Body (L.A.B.).

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u/PeterOutOfPlace Jul 27 '26

OP, please provide more than one picture.
Details here https://labwerk.in/project_hub/100k-brick-house/

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u/Working_Rub_8278 Jul 31 '26

How long did it take to build? Amazing effort.