Hotel Villa M
An exterior facade precedent by Triptyque demonstrating a structural steel grid integrated with continuous cascading planters for a high-density green envelope.
- What we like about this project
- The sheer density of unchecked wild vegetation spilling over every single floor slab.
Materials
- steel
- glass
- planting
- soil
Visual identifiers
- vertical-forest
- steel-grid
- integrated-planters
- green-facade
Style tags
- biophilic
- contemporary
- sustainable
Visual tags
- biophilic
- sustainable
- facade-system
- planting
- urban-hotel
- Geometry
- Orthogonal steel grid facade featuring protruding structural members that form deep planter troughs across every floor level.
- Facade system
- Exposed steel structural frame with integrated plant troughs and floor-to-ceiling glass curtain wall.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame construction with cantilevered or integrated balcony planters.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story building facade with human-scale planter troughs lining each floor level.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting soft shadows within the recessed balconies and through dense foliage.
- Atmosphere
- Lush, vibrant, and sheltered, blending industrial structure with wild organic growth.
- Environmental context
- Urban street frontage densely integrated with cascading vertical greenery.
- Spatial experience
- The building envelope dissolves into a vertical forest, creating a soft, filtered visual boundary between interior hotel rooms and the exterior city.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular vertical steel column spacing contrasted against irregular, overflowing organic plant masses.
- Style reading
- Biophilic contemporary architecture
- Program
- Hotel architecture
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- steel, glass, planting, soil
- Visual identifiers
- vertical-forest, steel-grid, integrated-planters, green-facade
- Style tags
- biophilic, contemporary, sustainable
- Visual tags
- biophilic, sustainable, facade-system, planting, urban-hotel
- Geometry
- Orthogonal steel grid facade featuring protruding structural members that form deep planter troughs across every floor level.
- Facade system
- Exposed steel structural frame with integrated plant troughs and floor-to-ceiling glass curtain wall.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame construction with cantilevered or integrated balcony planters.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story building facade with human-scale planter troughs lining each floor level.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting soft shadows within the recessed balconies and through dense foliage.
- Atmosphere
- Lush, vibrant, and sheltered, blending industrial structure with wild organic growth.
- Environmental context
- Urban street frontage densely integrated with cascading vertical greenery.
- Spatial experience
- The building envelope dissolves into a vertical forest, creating a soft, filtered visual boundary between interior hotel rooms and the exterior city.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular vertical steel column spacing contrasted against irregular, overflowing organic plant masses.
- Style reading
- Biophilic contemporary architecture
- Program
- Hotel architecture
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture