Builders traditionally used breeze blocks as solar, wind, sound, and privacy screens. Cast using concrete or terracotta, breeze blocks proliferated due to their low cost and speedy construction. However, the efficiency that resulted from the use of identical molds and thick rectangular frames also yielded boring and repetitive installations.
Can we design a block that retains the breeze block’s economic, material, and construction efficiency while offering an unpredictable pattern driven by organic stacking?
In theory, a rectangular block has 12 anchor points located at the prism’s vertices, where adjacent blocks touch. As long as each anchor point is designed to receive the pattern from any other point, blocks can be rotated along their x, y, and z axes while still retaining a seamless transition between blocks. This opens up the block itself to be patterned freely.
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