Ever considered a more sustainable option to everyday bricks? Visitors to Clerkenwell Green this week are invited to see how it can be done.

We have been working with Albion Stone, Hutton Stone and Hawkins\Brown on Brick from a Stone: Arch Revival – an installation that proves that stone can be more than decorative.

On show now as part of Clerkenwell Design Week, the two freestanding vaulted hyperbolic arches, each four metres tall, are built from just a single skin of 102mm-thick stone bricks. No steel skeleton, no hidden supports. Just compression, precision and a clever use of geometry. By shifting from a traditional semicircular form to a hyperbolic one, the wall thickness is cut in half. Each arch was prefabricated and delivered to site as a single piece.

The bricks are made from leftover stone that would otherwise go unused, and has 66% less embodied carbon when compared to traditional clay-fired bricks.