Serrations and Dogteeth: Angled Brick Corners

A decorative band composed of diagonally placed bricks. Each brick is turned forty-five degrees and laid into the wall, exposing only one corner, forming a continuous triangular sawtooth pattern when arranged consecutively; this band is usually only one to two brick courses high, horizontally wrapping around the entire building, appearing at floor divisions and below cornices. Its purpose is to create a shadowed line on large areas of flat brick wall. Avoid: replacing with precast triangular moldings, making the sawtooth angles inconsistent, making this band too wide and dominant, using different colored bricks for emphasis.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一道由斜放磚塊組成的裝飾帶。每一塊磚以四十五度轉向砌入牆面,只露出一個角,連續排列後形成一道連續的三角鋸齒;這道帶子通常只有一到兩層磚高,水平地繞過整棟建築,出現在樓層分界與簷口下方。它的作用是在大面積的平磚牆上劃出一條有陰影的線。避免:用預鑄的三角線腳取代、讓鋸齒的角度不一致、把這道帶子做得太寬變成主角、使用不同顏色的磚強調。