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    Eight bright and airy interiors illuminated by perforated brick walls

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    Dezeen’s latest lookbook explores eight interiors – from bright, airy residential spaces to cool, open-plan offices – illuminated by perforated brick walls.

    Perforated brick walls are often used as a cooling strategy in warmer climates. This lookbook highlights their effect on the lighting and shading of interior spaces and how they can be used to create a playful, light atmosphere.
    This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides visual inspiration from Dezeen’s archive. For more inspiration see previous lookbooks featuring homes with light-filled kitchens, sculptural wooden staircases and airy, pared-back loft conversions.
    Photo by Hemant PatilStudio by the Hill, India, by Mind Manifestation
    This converted apartment in Pune, India – designed by architecture studio Mind Manifestation to house the studio’s office – uses perforated bricks to create a well-lit and ventilated workspace.

    Bricks was used extensively across the flooring and complemented by green lime plaster walls.
    “The material palette has been tastefully chosen so as to match with the different shades of the hill throughout the year,” Mind Manifestation explained.
    Find out more about Studio by the Hill ›
    Photo by Oki HiroyukiCuckoo House, Vietnam, by Tropical Space
    Cuckoo House, designed by Tropical Space, is a two-storey home situated atop a cafe in Da Nang, Vietnam, encased by a shell made from local clay bricks.
    Living spaces on the upper floor feature perforated brick for privacy and ventilation, with the design resulting in a playful chequered lighting pattern across the wooden and concrete interior.
    Find out more about Cuckoo House ›
    Photo by Oki HiroyukiWall House, Vietnam, by CTA
    Square perforated bricks salvaged from nearby buildings sites are used on the exterior of CTA’s Wall House in Bien Hoa, Vietnam.
    Stacked in an irregular formation, the punctured bricks filter sunlight and air into the space, creating dotted shadows across the plant-filled double-height living room.
    Find out more about Wall House ›
    Photo by Hemant PatilGadi House, India, by PMA Madhushala
    Gadi House in Maval, India, by PMA Madhushala is a compact arrangement of volumes and courtyards.
    Dimly-lit courtyards and living spaces are illuminated by pockets of sunlight accessed through perforations in the brick and stone walls.
    Find out more about Gadi House ›
    Photo by Federico CairoliIntermediate House, Paraguay, by Equipo de Arquitectura
    The Intermediate House by Paraguay-based studio Equipo de Arquitectura is a narrow residence in Asunción organised around an open-air courtyard.
    Manually pressed, unfired bricks form the perforated street-facing facade – drawing sunlight and air through the vaulted brick-roofed dining room and into adjacent spaces.
    Find out more about Intermediate House ›
    Photo by Oki HiroyukiThe Termitary House, Vietnam, by Tropical Space
    Patterned shadows decorate the dimly-lit brick and wood interior of The Termitary House in Da Nang, Vietnam, designed by Tropical Space.
    Inspired by earthen termite nests, the studio used perforated brick on the facade and internal walls to bring natural light into the interiors during the day and draw in artificial light at night.
    Find out more about The Termitary House ›
    Photo by Timothy KayeCloud House, Australia, by Dean Dyson Architects
    Australian studio Dean Dyson Architects designed the Cloud House – a two-storey home in Malvern – using an exterior layer of grey, perforated brickwork.
    Intended to create a “private oasis” for the clients, the perforated brick pours light into the interior living spaces, with passive ventilation enabled by operable windows.
    Find out more about Cloud House ›
    Photo by Joana FrançaTropical Shed, Brazil, by Laurent Troost Architectures
    Located on a long, narrow plot in Manaus, Tropical Shed is a plant-filled office with a centralised courtyard designed by Brazilian studio Laurent Troost Architectures.
    Interlocking bricks – repeated throughout the design – form a perforated wall in the double-height office to create a cool work environment decorated with playful shadows.
    Find out more about Tropical Shed ›
    This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides visual inspiration from Dezeen’s archive. For more inspiration see previous lookbooks featuring homes with light-filled kitchens, sculptural wooden staircases and airy, pared-back loft conversions.

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      Lorenzo Botero and Martín Mendoza convert Bogotá residence into brick-lined restaurant

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      Local architecture studio Lorenzo Botero Arquitectos and interior designer Martín Mendoza used a palette of natural materials to transform a three-storey house into a restaurant in Bogotá.

      Located in the city’s Zona del Nogal, a popular shopping destination, Ideal Restaurant takes cues from the materiality of the deserts of the southern United States and the north of Mexico.
      Architect and interior designer Lorenzo Botero and Martín Mendoza turned a three-storey residence in Bogotá into a restaurantThe building was a three-storey residence that had undergone a series of previous renovations, which made it difficult to integrate a full kitchen and dining spaces.
      “It was a challenge,” said Botero, “But in architecture, it is about making trade-offs that are solved with the design once the program is clear.”
      The space was informed by the deserts of the southern United States and the north of MexicoThe studios used wood, copper, terracotta, linen and stone to create a warm atmosphere throughout the restaurant, which includes a covered outdoor seating area.

      The second-floor dining area is the “tour de force” of the project and includes an eclectic mixture of curved wooden and terracotta tables from Colombian furniture companies Carmworks and 902 Showroom and wooden chairs and benches from Vrokka.
      Vertical brick made of river sand was used to clad much of the interior”The project was very architectural and I did not want to superimpose things that were unnecessary,” said Mendoza.
      “I knew that the interior design had to work in favour of the architecture and the concept; hence the colour palette and natural materials⎯wood, vegetable fibres, terracotta, leather, jute and linens⎯and to contrast are the details in bronze and copper”.
      The second-floor space was divided by a sloping wine rack extending from the ceiling, as well as a wide stone bench tucked into a corner. The bench extends the length of the back wall to become the hearth of a metallic fireplace.
      The second-floor dining room is furnished with wooden tables and chairsA curved wall above the fireplace conceals the flue and further added dimension to the dining room, which looks out over the street through a wall of wood-framed windows.
      Lorenzo Botero Arquitectos wrapped much of the space in a thin brick made of sandstone, placed vertically to “lengthen” the walls of the space.

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      Walls, floors, and windowsills were wrapped in the material, as well as the base of a large shared sink in the bathroom.
      Horizontal bands made of metal were embedded throughout the rows of bricks to reflect the earthy-red tone.
      A series of windows are framed in woodMetallic lighting fixtures and lamps from Mendoza’s brand mm&co and others made in collaboration with La Bestial also reflect the restaurant’s natural palette.
      They include circular metallic wall sconces and cylindrical pendants affixed to the restaurant’s ceiling, as well as the wall sconces topped with wicker lampshades.
      Metallic light fixtures and hardware reflect the earthen tones of the interiorThe outdoor seating area has the same linen-covered chairs and wooden tables as the second-floor dining room.
      Large clay pots line the walls and hold herbaceous plants such as lavender and rosemary.
      The restaurant is currently open and serves modern American fare.
      Other Colombian eateries featured on Dezeen include a bakery and cafe by Studio Cadena with jagged, triangular windows and a hotel with a lobby and cafe covered in plants in Medellín.
      The photography is by Mónica Barreneche Olivares.

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      Sukchulmok adds curved brick forms to rooftop of Parconido Bakery Cafe

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      Curved forms and arched openings feature in this cafe, which Seoul studio Sukchulmok has added to an existing building in South Korea’s Gyeonggi-do province.

      Named Parconido Bakery Cafe, the cafe is made from red bricks and features playful curved shapes and rounded walls designed to create an illusion-like effect.
      Parconido Bakery Cafe was designed by Sukchulmok”The space, created through one rule, was designed to give a sense of expansion and the experience of an optical illusion image,” lead architect Park Hyunhee told Dezeen.
      Arranged across three floors including a rooftop level, the cafe was designed by architecture studio Sukchulmok to resemble European public squares in reference to the client’s time spent in Italy.
      The studio topped the roof with curving brick volumes”The client who spent his youth living in Italy is a clothing businessman, opening the cafe as a business expansion to provide people with a space for peaceful rest,” said Park.

      “These two aspects naturally reminded me of the image of the European square, where people are huddled together talking on a sunny day between red brick buildings and stone pillars.”
      The design drew references from nostalgic memories of ItalyOn the rooftop level and terrace, the outdoor dining spaces are punctuated by clay brick columns with arched connections and walls with U-shaped openings.
      Built around steel frames that extend into curved forms above the brick walls, the curved elements are coated in bricks cut to two-thirds of their original thickness to lighten their weight.
      The walls and floors have curved edgesA long stainless steel table with a curved underside, along with circular stools and planting, is shaded by a removable canopy made from green, orange and white fabrics.
      Curved walls lined with white tiles join with the tiled floor and ceiling to create rooms with rounded forms on the interior levels of the cafe.
      The rooms are covered in small tiles of travertine limestone, selected for its use in the fountains of European squares.

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      Kitchens are built into recesses in the curved walls, while wooden elements, including wall panels and pipes that line a portion of the ceiling, add a feeling of warmth to the interior.
      Throughout the spaces, uniquely designed seating areas and bespoke circular furnishings provide spaces for dining.
      The interior was covered in different textural materialsComprising twelve different designs, the cafe’s set of furniture was designed to exhibit a variety of shapes, textures, and materials, including leftover finishing materials, wood, overlapping pipes, and concrete castings.
      “Although they have slightly different shapes and textures, the pieces of furniture are all in harmony with the space and show good synergy with space as an object,” said Park.
      The cafe’s curved edges all have a radius of 600 millimetresTo maintain a sense of uniformity, the studio based the design of each element, including the walls, columns and furniture, around a circle with a constant radius of 600 millimetres.
      “A radius of 600 millimetres was used as an act of connecting spaces that were not monotonous,” said Park. “It was simply based on the idea that the distance from the height of the door and window to the ceiling finish is 600 millimetres.”
      Furniture was specially designed for the interiorOther South Korean cafes recently featured on Dezeen include a bakery with a curved courtyard designed to act as an “artificial valley” and a Seoul cafe with a vertical farm.
      The photography is by Hong Seokgyu.

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