Reclaimed bricks are increasingly recognised as valuable construction resources. Rather than asking how existing bricks can simply be reused, this investigation explores how they can be fundamentally reconfigured through metamorphic transformation.

By reorganising material relationships before firing, the research investigates how different brick types - with different firing histories, melting temperatures and thermal expansion coefficients - can become stable architectural composites that generate new structural and spatial possibilities.

I used incompatibility not as a limitation but as a design parameter. Carefully composed material arrangements balance internal thermal expantion stresses during firing, allowing different brick types to fuse into stable monolithic ceramic elements.

The process reconfigures not only the material itself, but also the structural behaviour, architectural application and expressive language of brick construction.

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Brick ↔ Brick

Difference ↔ Compatibility

Material ↔ Fire

Fragment ↔ Whole

Structure ↔ Light

Waste ↔ Architecture