Recyclinghaus, Hanover
Hanover
An exterior facade study of a multi-story residential building featuring dark metal panels juxtaposed with luminous channel glass ribbon bands.
- What we like about this project
- Continuous vertical channel glass corners wrapping the primary volume without visible corner posts.
Materials
- channel-glass
- metal-panel
- timber
- glass
Visual identifiers
- channel-glass
- dark-cladding
- stepped-massing
- horizontal-bands
Style tags
- contemporary
- rationalist
- industrial-modern
Visual tags
- facade-study
- translucent-facade
- contemporary-housing
- material-contrast
- sustainable
- Geometry
- Multi-story stepped cubic massing featuring continuous horizontal bands of vertical channel glass wrapping the middle floors below a dark panelized upper level.
- Facade system
- Profiled channel glass glazing system paired with dark metal rainscreen panels and timber accents.
- Structural guess
- Timber frame or concrete masonry construction with lightweight panel cladding.
- Spatial scale
- Three-story residential scale, fitting contextually with neighboring suburban housing.
- Lighting
- Bright diffused daylight with soft ambient shadows across the dark cladding and luminous vertical channels.
- Atmosphere
- Cool, crisp daylight contrasting solid dark massing against glowing translucent glass.
- Environmental context
- Suburban street corner setting surrounded by low-rise residential neighborhood context.
- Spatial experience
- The building presents an opaque dark volume punctuated by luminous translucent glass ribbons at the pedestrian level.
- Composition rhythm
- Strong horizontal stratification created by stacked bands of channel glass alternating with dark solid paneling.
- Style reading
- Contemporary sustainable residential architecture
- Program
- Residential multi-family housing
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- channel-glass, metal-panel, timber, glass
- Visual identifiers
- channel-glass, dark-cladding, stepped-massing, horizontal-bands
- Style tags
- contemporary, rationalist, industrial-modern
- Visual tags
- facade-study, translucent-facade, contemporary-housing, material-contrast, sustainable
- Geometry
- Multi-story stepped cubic massing featuring continuous horizontal bands of vertical channel glass wrapping the middle floors below a dark panelized upper level.
- Facade system
- Profiled channel glass glazing system paired with dark metal rainscreen panels and timber accents.
- Structural guess
- Timber frame or concrete masonry construction with lightweight panel cladding.
- Spatial scale
- Three-story residential scale, fitting contextually with neighboring suburban housing.
- Lighting
- Bright diffused daylight with soft ambient shadows across the dark cladding and luminous vertical channels.
- Atmosphere
- Cool, crisp daylight contrasting solid dark massing against glowing translucent glass.
- Environmental context
- Suburban street corner setting surrounded by low-rise residential neighborhood context.
- Spatial experience
- The building presents an opaque dark volume punctuated by luminous translucent glass ribbons at the pedestrian level.
- Composition rhythm
- Strong horizontal stratification created by stacked bands of channel glass alternating with dark solid paneling.
- Style reading
- Contemporary sustainable residential architecture
- Program
- Residential multi-family housing
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture