Brick

 BRICK The brick is a common material used for construction. Their form is a rectangular prism and is elaborated of clay. What are they made of? A brick is a ceramic piece obtained by molding clay at high temperatures.

What are they used for? The brick is used for the construction and for the decoration

How many types of brick are there? According to their form, the bricks are classified as: perforated bricks, solid brick, brick to tile or manual and hollow brick.

What is the meaning of brick laying techniques? It is the way in which they have bricks in the construction of a wall, squaring the dimensions of the wall and the encounters, so that the wall ascends in a homogeneous way in all the height of the construction. Five brick laying techniques exist: the apparel to ropes, apparel to smuts, English apparel, harness in panderete and palomero apparel.

Describes 2 brick laying techniques Stretcher Bond
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 * Strectcher Brick Bond ||

Stretcher bond is the commonest bond used today and the least interesting in appearance. It can be made more interesting by laying a course of different coloured bricks or to lay such bricks to form a pattern on a wall.

Flemish Bond
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 * Flemish Brick Bond ||

Flemish bond consists of alternating headers and stretchers along each course with the headers centred on the stretchers above and below.

What are their advantages and disadvantages? Advantages. - The baked clay is a natural material that doesn’t contain chemical elements that can be toxic. -The brick’s walls shelter of the external temperatures. -Durability, security, stability and resistance to fire.

Disadvantages. - It depends on the type of structure and the type of brick used, the price can be very high. - Bigger material consumption. - Specialized manpower.

 The Chrysler Building

It is a skyscraper located in New York City, on the east of Manhattan. It was the tallest building in the world until 1931, but now is the highest brick building in the world, with a height of 319 meters and 77 floors. The Chrysler Building was designed by the architect William Van Alen and later sold to Walter P. Chrysler as a central headquarters for his company. The construction began on September 19, 1928, making four plants for every week and at the end a needle of stainless steel was placed in the summit of the building. It was opened to the public on May 27, 1930. Inside the dome, approximately 3.826.000 bricks were posted manually, covered with white and dark grey bricks used as horizontal decoration to emphasize the windows lines, The exterior is covered with stainless steel and its internal structure is of steel girders. Floor 30, that keeps the technical equipment, has a bicolor brick frieze representing the wheels of the automobile in the decoration of The Chrysler Building. media type="file" key="brick.wma" width="312" height="26" align="center" ** Worksheet **