Brick

=Brick=



Brick are molded rectangular blocks of ceramic material like clay baked by the sun or in a kiln until hard and used as a construction material in buildings, streets and others. There are mud bricks, dry-pressed bricks, extruded bricks, and there are also solid and holed bricks, which have different characteristics. They can as well be differentiated in common, facing and engineering bricks. Bricklaying techniques are ways of building with bricks, orders that we follow to make a brick-made construction.

Piazza del Campo


Piazza del Campo is a big and important square of the historic center of Siena, in Tuscany, Italy. It is beautifully shaped as a shell, and it’s surrounded by the most important buildings. The big empty space in the center is ruled by The Palazzo Pubblico and its Torre del Mangia, and there is the Fonte Gaia at one of the edges. Here, brick has been used in many ways: first of all as a construction material, but as well with decorative purposes and like a surface-veneer. It plays an important paper in the spatial characteristics of the square: in the floor, red brick marks the shell-shaped center, where the crowd stares at the savage race Palio twice a year, which occurs at the borders, paved with “pietra serena”, whiter. That fact remarks a singular characteristic of this square: the action occurs at the borders, where people enter and leave, talk in the shadow, negotiate; and the quiet center becomes a place of reverence of what is before our eyes.