How could they make a brick building look timber like?” Lyons persisted with the concept, simply rephrasing the question and challenge: how could they make a brick building look timber like?
Lyons were no strangers to brick buildings but whereas their past buildings had celebrated brick’s earthy coarseness and strict fabric now they needed to transform the material into something softer and finer that looked like timber. Lyons recalled receiving a brick embossed with a pattern from Dr Derham Groves, senior lecturer in architecture at The University of Melbourne. This led to the concept of a façade that combined the durability and low maintenance of face brickwork with the texture of the classic timber beach house. “Several years ago, with a lot of help from Austral Bricks, I made a few bricks that were stamped using a rubber gasket from an old washing machine and a rubber heel from a shoe,” Derham Groves explains.
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