Joints as Design: Thin, Matching Color, Flush

A detail of brick mortar joints. The mortar joint width is only eight to ten millimeters, filled flush with the brick surface or slightly recessed. The color is an ochre brown close to the brick color, not grayish-white; therefore, from a distance, the entire wall appears as a continuous orange-red expanse, with the brick division lines almost invisible. The shadows of the protruding bricks become the only pattern. Avoid: using wide and light-colored mortar joints, making the mortar joints protrude from the brick surface, using white cement mortar, making the brick joints the most prominent lines on the facade.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一處磚縫的細節。灰縫的寬度只有八到十毫米,填得與磚面齊平或微微內凹,顏色是接近磚色的赭褐而不是灰白;因此在遠處看整面牆是一片連續的橘紅,磚的分割線幾乎不可見,凸出磚塊的陰影反而成為唯一的圖案。避免:使用寬而淺色的灰縫、讓灰縫凸出於磚面、使用白色水泥砂漿、讓磚縫成為立面上最明顯的線條。