A workshop near Lyon, and 118,000 part references.
Unibrick has been designing and building with construction bricks since 2019: monumental models for museums, activations for towns and shopping centres, cohesion workshops for companies.
What we actually do
We make brick objects that people look at, walk around and point at. A Roman city of twenty-three square metres at the Lugdunum Museum. A Roman way station built by four hundred visitors at the Ambrussum museum. A data centre cut open for a technology show. A mosaic of Place Bellecour assembled in one evening by a hundred and twenty colleagues.
Two trades, one material. On one side the model: a one-off piece, designed digitally then built in the workshop, delivered and installed. On the other the activation: we arrive with the bricks, the plans, the tables and the team, and your visitors, pupils or colleagues do the building.
Often the two meet. Many of our models are finished by the very audience they are made for — which is why people don't come to see a model, they come to see the one they helped build.
How we work
Digital before brick
Everything starts as a digital model. Volume, colours, layout: you sign off before the first piece is laid. On a heritage project, every building is checked against your surveys and publications.
A stock, not a catalogue
The finesse of a model depends less on hours spent than on how many different parts are available. We hold 118,000 references in the workshop, sorted piece by piece.
We arrive with everything
Sorted bricks, plans, tables if needed, hosts. We set up, run it, take it down and leave with our equipment. You prepare nothing and tidy nothing.
The piece stays with you
Mosaic, model, mural: the piece is yours on delivery. Framing, plinth and on-site installation can all be included in the quote.
Unibrick in brief
- Founded
- 2019
- Workshop
- Sourcieux-les-Mines, twenty minutes from Lyon
- Second base
- A site in Occitanie, covering the south of France
- Coverage
- The whole of France. Travel costs are listed separately in the quote.
- Stock
- 118,000 different part references
- Largest piece
- Lugdu'Briques — around a million pieces, 23 m², nine months of work
- Largest group
- 350 colleagues around one mosaic, in a single session
- Team
- Five people year-round — founder, R&D lead, design lead, designer, facilitator — with freelance facilitators brought in for the largest builds.
From an idea to a trade
- 2019
The first model
Sandor Berecz founds Unibrick on a simple idea: turn the brick, so often a solitary toy, into something collective. The first model is delivered that year.
- 2020
The pivot
Lockdown stops the activations. The time is spent designing something else: formats for adults, team building, and the first commissioned models.
- 2022
Philippe joins the workshop
Philippe Berecz, Sandor's father, takes on research and development and facilitation across the Rhône-Alpes region.
- 2023
Bertrand and Pierrick
Two long-standing friends join the team: Bertrand Barbe on design, Pierrick Francou on facilitation.
- 2024
Lugdu'Briques
Nine months in the workshop, close to a million pieces, twenty-three square metres at the Lugdunum museum. Vincent Barrau joins and opens the Occitanie base.
The team
Unibrick began between a father, his son and long-standing friends. Five years on, it still is. Nobody here answered a job advert: each one already knew how to do something the workshop could not.
The work runs the whole length of the chain. Sorting first: one hundred and eighteen thousand references filed piece by piece, without which no cornice is ever found on the day it is needed. Then design, entirely digital — volume, colours, layout — before a single brick is laid. Then the build in the workshop, transport, installation on site, and facilitation in front of the public. The same piece passes through four or five pairs of hands before it is delivered.
Two bases: the workshop at Sourcieux-les-Mines, twenty minutes from Lyon, and a second in Occitanie covering the south. On the largest builds, freelance facilitators come in as reinforcements — up to four hundred participants in a single day.
Who does what
Sandor Berecz
Founder, head of facilitation.
Project costing, running the builds, client relationships.
Philippe Berecz
Research and development, facilitation across Rhône-Alpes.
Structural and fixing solutions go through him.
Bertrand Barbe
Head of design.
Turns a plan, a photograph or an intention into a digital model and then a build sheet.
Pierrick Francou
Facilitator in Rhône-Alpes.
Runs the large formats in front of the public, from shopping centres to festivals.
Vincent Barrau
Designer, facilitation in Occitanie.
3D design and on-site presence across the southern half of France.
To confirm — the team's own words
On the final page each portrait carries a sentence from the person themselves, not a sentence written about them. Ask each of them for one line on what they like about the work, in their own words. Portraits in the workshop and photographs of the sorted stock are needed too: that is what proves the workshop exists.
A note about the trademark
LEGO® is a trademark of the LEGO Group. Unibrick is not sponsored, authorised, endorsed by or affiliated with that company in any way.
We design our own models, buy our parts on the open market and work entirely independently. The trademark is mentioned only to identify the type of brick used.
You have a project, even a vague one.
A plan, a photograph, an intention: that's enough for us to tell you whether it's feasible, at what price and in how long.