YOU HAVE YOUR IDEAS. WE HAVE THE BRICK FOR IT. FORMFREI BRICK-DESIGN® by Röben

Full of character, original, laid-back, lively, unique, multifaceted, resilient, special, authentic – with characteristics such as these, growing numbers of prominent architects from around the world are discovering classic and simple bricks with their natural, rustic charm as the ‘real’ material for their ideas. Using sophisticated manufacturing techniques, Röben rediscovers the artistry and natural characteristics of the brick and enriches architecture with a seemingly inexhaustible variety of textures, colours and shades. BRICK-DESIGN® opens up entirely new possibilities in brick architecture...

C H A If you appreciate a material that can hold its own with the same enviable ease in a 500-year old castle in England, a 50-yearold warehouse building in New York and an ultra-modern high-rise in Berlin.

The city can be pretty wild. Raw, authentic, rustic – The bricks are full of living history when you look at them closely. Each and every one are originals with all their rough corners and edges. From a distance they have a pleasantly shimmering appearance. The façade casually adopts the spiritual form of its surroundings, assuming its nuances. The building is new, yet it looks as though it has always been there. We are transported into a place of legendary urbanity. The docks of New York. The clatter of old air conditioning units. Life moves on, the bricks remain.

Fascinating how perfectly the temperament of the naturally vibrant brick unites with the clear, often severe designs used in modern, urban architecture. Its expressiveness makes the façade the perfect interface with the city. As unconcerned as one can only be when one is strong enough to be unobtrusive. If you are not a copy of another, but simply oneself. If architecture wants not to create distance but rather be as vibrant as the life within itself and its surroundings. If you are searching for the perfect material to contrast with a cool design.

If you represent architecture that through expression, warmth and strong personal nuances creates an oasis of calm in turbulent times.

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The colour red experiences the highest honour in Bordeaux wines If you are searching for a “typical brick red” that has never been seen before.

BRICK RED. NOT ONE BUT MANY COLOURS. More than 40 different shades of red. And thousands of possibilities to create a distinctive façade.

Slightly chamfered edges, glaze on the surface and sprinkled sand give each brick an especially authentic charm.

This contrast is simply wonderful: Bricks like these, strike chords within us such as we have not heard in a long time. As if individually formed by hand, the traditional manufacturing process translates into modern production technology. Each one is a beautifully unique individual with a pronounced rustic look. “I have been working as a brickmaker for nearly 40 years. And I still find it fascinating to see what water, air and fire can make out of a pile of clay. This rich diversity is quite amazing.” HANS-JÜRGEN RESKE Plant Manager Querenstede

Experience a grey miracle with bricks full of character.

If you want a powerful signature for your building, with unique shades of grey far removed from the usual grey.

COLOUR WORLDS ELEGANT AND VIBRANT AT THE SAME TIME. From the blackest black to the brightest white: At Röben, there are more shades possible than exist between heaven and earth.

White firing clays are fired at high temperatures until sintering begins, that is, until the ceramic material has completely cemented together. So, the whitest and the blackest have something in common: They will still look as elegant and pure in future years as they do on the first day.

With shimmering hues of near white to deep black, highly individual compositions for façade textures can be composed. Depending on whether the mood should be solemnly soothing, elegantly restrained or playfully rich in contrasts, the composition allows a wealth of hues usually only perceived on closer inspection or bold shades that literally leap into the observer’s sight. “ Whether the brick should now have more of a cold, blue cast or a warm, red cast – it doesn’t matter. We’ll manage it. We’ve been in business long enough to know how.” HANS-JÜRGEN RESKE Plant Manager Querens

An infinite number of shades in one brick.

Like a gift of nature. If you would like to create a sovereign piece of home in the most exciting cities.

COLOUR WORLDS AS RICHLY NUANCED AS THE SURROUNDINGS. Bright red highlights, dark red sandy variants, black and brown fired colours, almost metallic shades of beige – a single brick can unite a world within itself.

Even with coloured-white bricks and respective sorting grades incredible highlights can be created in a façade.

BRICK MEETS HIGH-TECH To revive the original rustic spirit of a brick façade, Röben has it all. An opulent, harmonious richness of colour as found only in nature, meets modern production techniques that also allow especially rough or sandy highlights, deep black fired colours and even traces of metallic hues or fog white. And in such a manner that each individual brick differs from the others in terms of surface, shape and interplay of colours. “Special additions during the production process release very different reactions in the kiln. Crazy fiery images or barely visible shadows then appear...