Rockpanel Colours for a floating forest house

As little concrete as possible

The topography of the site was also cleverly used in the construction of the house. The entrance road ends at the highest point of the property, in a garage without foundations, which is hardly recognisable as such because the cladding of the door and facade merge. For the building itself, is a fully demountable and recyclable timber frame construction was used, clad with a combination of large glass panes and Rockpanel facade cladding. The window frames and cladding panels blend together thanks to the uniform colouring in RAL 7016. The exterior walls and flat roof were insulated with soft wood fibre boards. 

Tailor-made design with Rockpanel

Tim Meinhof, the responsible project manager at Cousin Architekt, appreciates the options of a ventilated facade construction with Rockpanel cladding: "In this project, we used panels halved to a width of 60 cm, which were vertically framed with an angle profile made of aluminium." As a result, narrow silver-coloured lines now run around the building at 60 cm intervals, breaking up the slightly monolithic effect of the cladding mounted in a joint cut. "The whole building floats above the site with a large part of its 190 m2 of living and usable space, and we were keen to reinforce the lightness created by this also through the articulation and cladding of the facade," explains architect Meinhof. 

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