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Bricks is a web app that help architects and creatives to organize

their visual inspirations with reusable bricks of projects, they can

share with their team and the design community.

Bricks is designed with simple principles :

- Visual and image based approach- Designed for architecture & creatives- Simple and elegant user Interface- Collaboration made easy- Maximise serendipity

2What is Bricks ?

Architects often get inspirations from the other architects or reuse part of their past projects. But they don’t have today, an efficient way to organize their experience internally and share it with the community.

They are lacking a true collaboration platform that play the same role as github for developers.

We think that it is not a fatality, and started to design Bricks in 2014, as an app that allow architects to work in a more collaborative way.

Bricks allow to collect, organize and share design ideas and inspirations and want to be "the github for architects and creatives professionals".

How did the idea came from ? 3

A brick is a reusable element of a project like a stair, a roof type, a facade…

Anything you can split to reuse in a future project.

On a brick you can:

- discuss with your team- attach related files like drawing, 3D model...- see in which project it has been used- ....

Bricks allow you to collect inspirations images easily from the web or from our integrated inspirations library.

You can organize your Bricks with projects, layers, and even define bricks relationships by cropping a sub-element directly on an image.

4How does Bricks work ?

For architects

- Design faster, concentrate on the originality of your project

- Collect inspirations images from everywhere- Organize your inspirations on a project per

project basis- Define bricks relationships by selecting a sub-

element directly on an image- Build a collaborative bricks library you can

share easily- Communicate with other architects and within

your team- Reuse common bricks shared by the

community

What are the benefits of using Bricks ? 5

We develop a powerful and elegant interface to discover architectural products in context.

Architects love discovering ideas reading architectural magazine or web sites, and get inspired more easily by the other architects.

For manufacturers

- Show case of your products in the context of the best projects that use them

- Make your product viral understanding architects inspirations workflow

- More straighforward communication with the architecture community

What are the benefits of using Bricks ? 6

Bricks has been created and designed for all people who want to organize and share elements of architecture.

We believe that Bricks caters to the need of a large audience among which

- Architects : +1M- Other architecture professionals : +1M- Other creative peoples : +8 M- People that want to build a house : +500 M- Manufacturers : +10 K

7Who is our audience?

Sebastien Lucas CEO + CTO

Sebastien has founded Archiref in 2010 and Bricks in 2014 to give architects a way to be more creative and collaborative.

Architect and web developer, he is charge of the app development, product design and global strategy of Bricks projects.

Alexis Lemoine Iribarne COO

Trained as an industrial Engineer. Love creative tools and web projects. Want to bring web tools to the physical world.

Alexis has joined Bricks projects in 2015. He is in charge of business development, sales and marketing.

Get to know the team 8

We are at the very beginning of our adventure to change the way we design architecture by leveraging collaboration and share culture.

We see a future full of opportunities to build an engaged community around architecture bricks.

Here are our priorities for 2015

- Add team collaboration features- Enhance the user Interface with annotation,

organization and search features- Develop Bricks community- Develop an open library of projects bricks- Get funding and launch subscriptions plans

9What will the future of Bricks look like?

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