Hotel Villa M
Hotel Villa M by Triptyque showcases a striking living-facade strategy, embedding stacked planter modules across a dark metal structural grid to weave intense nature into an urban streetscape.
- What we like about this project
- The sheer density of the vegetation effectively dissolves the upper stories of the facade into a continuous hanging garden.
Materials
- dark-metal
- glass
- planting
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- vertical-garden
- plant-facade
- urban-infill
- hotel-villa-m
- stepped-terraces
Style tags
- biophilic
- contemporary
- vegetated-facade
Visual tags
- biophilic-design
- facade-greening
- urban-infill
- contemporary
- mixed-use
- Geometry
- An urban infill building stepped back at upper levels, integrating a continuous vertical grid of planter trays across multiple stories.
- Facade system
- Dark metal grid system integrated with continuous integrated planter boxes and floor-to-ceiling glazing.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with a suspended lightweight steel secondary sub-structure for exterior planters.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story urban infill building matching the height scale of adjacent historic perimeter blocks.
- Lighting
- Bright directional sunlight from the side, casting crisp shadows on the planting and metal facade frames.
- Atmosphere
- Lively, green, and tactile contrast between hard urban infrastructure and spilling vegetation.
- Environmental context
- Dense European street corner with traditional Haussmannian perimeter blocks, mature street trees, and civic signage.
- Spatial experience
- From the street, the massive building front is softened by cascading vegetation, bridging the gap between urban density and park-like greenery.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical structural mullions repeating across the bay rhythm, interwoven with overflowing green tiers.
- Style reading
- Contemporary biophilic urban architecture
- Program
- Hotel and mixed-use commercial
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- dark-metal, glass, planting, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- vertical-garden, plant-facade, urban-infill, hotel-villa-m, stepped-terraces
- Style tags
- biophilic, contemporary, vegetated-facade
- Visual tags
- biophilic-design, facade-greening, urban-infill, contemporary, mixed-use
- Geometry
- An urban infill building stepped back at upper levels, integrating a continuous vertical grid of planter trays across multiple stories.
- Facade system
- Dark metal grid system integrated with continuous integrated planter boxes and floor-to-ceiling glazing.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with a suspended lightweight steel secondary sub-structure for exterior planters.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story urban infill building matching the height scale of adjacent historic perimeter blocks.
- Lighting
- Bright directional sunlight from the side, casting crisp shadows on the planting and metal facade frames.
- Atmosphere
- Lively, green, and tactile contrast between hard urban infrastructure and spilling vegetation.
- Environmental context
- Dense European street corner with traditional Haussmannian perimeter blocks, mature street trees, and civic signage.
- Spatial experience
- From the street, the massive building front is softened by cascading vegetation, bridging the gap between urban density and park-like greenery.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical structural mullions repeating across the bay rhythm, interwoven with overflowing green tiers.
- Style reading
- Contemporary biophilic urban architecture
- Program
- Hotel and mixed-use commercial
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture