Louver Bricks
Commissioner: Swire Properties
Location: Taikoo Gardens, Hong Kong
Status: Completed November 2023
Photography: Martin Cheung
The Louver-Bricks is an innovative cladding system designed specifically to take a large and unwanted bare concrete ventilation wall and turn it into a beautiful feature whilst respecting the wall’s core mechanical functionality.
Running the full length of Kam Hoi Street, M&T’s design fuses together the engineered form of a louver blade with the proportions and tiling arrangements of a brick wall that, combined together, fit inside a slender modular ladder system to suit a tight cladding zone.
The colour selection of 8 varying shades of red were chosen to provide a dappled texture which contrasts and compliments the greenery of the gardens to enhance and make them visually pop.
The project was overall driven by a unique opportunity to transform an eyesore into a backdrop that enhances and frames the gardens.
By balancing the stringent government imposed mechanical and material parameters with an artistic integrity, a new functional camouflaging system was created which established the wall as an intended feature and key visual marker within the development.
