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Week 3 - Bricks as Image

Type of Brick and Temperature Baked

This is a very common reddish shade of brick baked in the kiln at about 1000 degrees celcius which usually comes as wire cut bricks. This is a none structural brick, since it is used as a fence.

Brick Texture

The brick fence has a "velour" brick texture which exhibits characteristics of tightly grained textures with straight edges and appear mostly consistant in its colour.

Brick Size

The bricks are in standard size measuring 76mm x 230mm x 110mm.

Type of Bond

The brick fence uses a flemish bond to construct the wall.

Type of Mortar

The wall uses a flush joint. Since the church is located next to Central Station, it is around 1km from a non-surf coast. Hence under the Australian standards require a mortar of M3 standard. I.e. 1:1:6 of cement, lime and sand respectively.

Type of brick and temperature baked

This is a cavity brick wall of a domestic house, hence in current context, the bricks may possibly be wirecut bricks due to financial considerations. The dark red colour of the brick indicate that it is baked at a temperature higher than 1000 degrees celcius.

Brick Texture

The rolled bricks of the wall are treated with distinctive patterns prior to firing.

Brick Size

The brick are made to the Australian standard size measuring 76mm x 230mm x 110mm

Type of Bond

The bricks are of the stretcher bond.

Mortar Type

The wall uses an ironed joint. Since the location is in Maroubra, the wall is within 1km of Maroubra beach. This is classified by the Australian Standards as a severe marine environment, and requires a mortar of M4 standard. M4 has the following proportion of cement, lime and sand, 1:0:4.

Week 2 - Brick as Images

Type of Brick and temperature baked
From the colour of the brick, there appears to be a variety of red and dark purple mixed combination of bricks. This illustrates that the bricks were fired approximately 1100 °C. The bricks were smooth on the surface on the surface, and had a dense appearance, this indicates that the bricks were wet pressed.

Brick Texture
The “Slurried” brick texture has a slight inconsistency in its subtle texture of which is created naturally through the kiln. The brick also has neat straight edges.

Brick Size
The brick are made to the Australian standard brick size of 76mm high x 230mm long x 110mm wide.

Type of Bond
The bricks were played in the Flemish style.

Mortar Type
Mortar TypeThe mortar uses a “raked” joint. Since the brick wall is on the exterior, the mortar type should be M3 of general purpose durability class. It should be composed of Portland cement, hydrated lime and sand in the proportion of 1:1:6 during its construction process.

Type of Brick and Temperature Baked
Judging from the corky surface of the brick, the clay masonry is mostly likely a dry pressed brick. Since the brick wall primarily acts the exposed exterior façade, the face brick is hence not a wire cut brick.
The brick is relatively yellow and bright in colour, this shows that it was not fired a relatively high temperature, Roughly around 1000°C.

Brick Texture
This is a Fritted brick texture, the bricks have a glass-like substance melted into the surface for a glossy or mottled appearance.

Brick Size
The wall is composed of standard bricks in the dimensions of 76mm x 230mm x 110mm

Type of Bond
The brick wall uses a common stretcher bond.

Type of Mortar
The Mortar uses a “Raked” joint and uses M3 mortar type since it is within 10km of non-surf coast, hence the ratio of Portland cement, hydrated lime and sand are 1:1:6, or 1:0:5.

Week 1 - Brick as Image

Type of brick and temperature baked
In modern contexts, the type of brick used is most likely wire cut bricks in which are made by extruding or forcing clay into rectangular shapes. They have up to 10 holes that can be seen from above. These holes help conserve clay which reduces cost and weight.
The surface of the brick is also quite rough, and judging from the vibrant clean surface, the brick is very new, hence the wall is very unlikely to be composed of dry or wet pressed bricks.
Brick firing temperature ranges roughly around 1000°C to 1300°C. As the temperature rises, the colour starts from a white to yellow, then a series of red hues. This red hue then turns purple and dark brown or grey at approximately 1300°C. Judging from the bright orange brick colour, the clay masonry brick was fired at around 1000-1100°C.

Brick Texture
The Brick surface comprises of a "velour" brick texture, this is evidently seen through its consistency in colour and tightly grained texture. The brick also has straight edge characteristics.

Brick Size
The bricks of the wall are of standard face brick size, 76mm high x 230mm long x 110mm wide.

Type of Bond
This wall is composed with a colonial bond, and can be identified though its pattern in which comprises of full, half and quarter bricks.

Mortar
This wall uses "flush" joints, it provides a flatter look and be rightens the wall by minimising the amount of shadow. The brick is located in China Town which is located just over 1Km of a Darling Harbour, hence the Australian standards require a mortar specification of atleast M3. M3 mortar consists of the following proportions of portland cement, hydrated lime and sand, 1:1:6.




Type of Brick/Temperature baked
This was a wall of a building located near Broadway shopping centre. Despite how smooth the brick felt, it could be a result of wind corrosion over a very long period of time. Judging upon how the bricks have chipped, it could have been dry pressed bricks that were used to construct the external walls. This is because dry pressed bricks are not as dense and strong as wet pressed bricks, although they seem rough at first, but under the influences of weather can wear down and smooth out over a very long period of time.
Hints of the buildings old age and the colour of the bricks shows that the clay masonry was fired at a much higher temperature, this dark grey/purple indicates an approximate temperature of around 1300°C.

Brick Texture
The surface texture appears to be similar to those of “Slurried” bricks. The bricks exhibit a permanent kiln fired subtle pigment texture.

Brick Size
The bricks of the wall are of standard face brick size, 76mm high x 230mm long x 110mm wide.

Type of Bond
Once again this is another example of the colonial brick bonding in which comprises of its unique layout of full, half and quarters of bricks.

Mortar Type
The bond is most likely a raked joint, this was the most commonly known joint and used at the time. The characteristic of this joint is where the mortar is recessed from the brick face by 10mm. The wall is located in broadway which is just over a kilometre from black wattle coast. Since black wattle coast is not a suft cost, the mortar has to afree with the australia standards of minimal M3.