Through the close examination of materials and their implications, specifically weeping mortar, one can begin to understand the significance of materials within architecture.

The studio was tasked with understanding and studying a material connection, then challenged to rethink it in a new way. Conceived as a material study, this project provides a lineage of how weeping mortar can be reworked into new understandings of assembly and material connections, applied to surface articulation, and finally translated to volume to create a pavilion that highlights and works with this reworking of weeping mortar.

Weeping Wonder takes this understanding of weeping mortar and expands the technique to different brick assembly orientations, atypical from the horizontal orientation that is typically seen within weeping mortar. This project speculates that depending on the orientation of the brick the mortar will begin to consume the brick, eventually leaving it unrecognizable from its original pattern. The organization of brick orientation within the pavilion attempts to organize the brick orientations in a way that, as one moves from beginning to end, one can begin to observe and spatially feel the effect of mortar consuming the brick leaving the last form and brick orientation completely unrecognizable.