Nature Facades

Rockpanel Natural

Product Data Sheet Instruction Guide

Product Data Sheet Instruction Guide

Rockpanel Natural

The true beauty of a facade is sometimes quite puristic. Be brave – let the sun, wind and rain play their part. Without applying paint or surface sealer, Rockpanel Natural allows the elements to take an active role in your facade.

Your building fits organically into its surroundings, in an interactive way from day one. When you're looking for a unique and innovative facade, Rockpanel Natural might just be exactly what you need.

Rockpanel Natural has quite an extraordinary feature: the boards change under the effects of the weather. The fresh yellowish green colour scheme turns into a velvety, slightly sparkling brownish red surface over time. The effect is similar to the way wood takes on a patina under the effects of the weather.

Why Rockpanel Natural?

Our most natural and sustainable board
Allow the elements to take an active role
One of a kind facade
Beauty in its purest form
Fits organically into its surrounding
Unique and innovative

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Experience all the advantages of Rockpanel yourself.

Quick and easy installation
No special equipment needed
Long lifespan
Puristic beauty

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Office/production building with Rockpanel Natural facade cladding in Eggenfelden, Germany. — Industrial - Manufacturing - non-food

Germany

A ‘living’ façade in harmony with nature

The BRUNNER family business based in Eggenfelden, Germany has been designing and manufacturing high-quality stoves and fireplaces since 1946.
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New build of the Les Trèfles primary school in Anderlecht, Belgium with Rockpanel Natural & Rockpanel Chameleon exterior cladding. Les Trefles — Public - Schools / Universities

Belgium

A new kind of primary school: beautiful, sustainable and stimulating

Árter based the unique shape of the school on the name of the neighbourhood, Les Trèfles (The Clovers), and on studies by Japanese professor, Mitsuru Senda.
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Beach bar in Konstanz, Germany for the Seezeit Studentenwerk with Rockpanel Natural exterior cladding — Commercial - Hotels & Restaurants

Germany

Beach Bar Seezeit in Konstanz: a clever design for a special atmosphere

When you have a building of only 60 m² available to equip a full beach bar, you need to be creative. The architects at Lutz + Roos certainly showed some ingenuity when designing Seezeit Beach Bar in Konstanz, Germany.
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Rockpanel Case Study Altdorf — Public - Schools / Universities

Germany

Impressive German town school with focus on the community

In the German town Altdorf bei Nürnberg, a brand-new grammar school was built. Dömges Architekten designed the new Leibniz Gymnasium as a so-called “pavilion school”, in which the focus is on being a community and finding your own identity. All classrooms have large windows to create a strong relationship to the outside space. A large part of the external elevations are clad with Rockpanel facade cladding.
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Rockpanel Case study De Lichtenbergvej
HERO — Residential - Blocks of flats

Denmark

A fresh look for Danish homes after a thorough renovation

Nine apartment blocks in Grenaa (Denmark) have undergone a thorough renovation – from old, worn-out apartment blocks into attractive homes with new balconies and energy-renovated facades. The residential area has gotten a true upgrade, not least thanks to the robust Rockpanel Natural facade boards that add a natural look and over time patinate to an organic reddish-brown shade.
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Rockpanel Case Study Langsand Langs Vand
Rockpanel Natural, Rockpanel Colours RAL 9005 and RAL 0405005 — Residential - Blocks of flats

Denmark

Langsand Langs Vand holiday homes designed to withstand West Jutland’s harsh weather conditions

In Hvide Sande (Denmark) rough waves and winds are commonplace. The Langsand Langs Vand holiday homes are therefore customized to be able to withstand the harsh weather conditions in Western Jutland. The homes are clad with robust facade boards that, when tested before construction, already proofed to be weather resistant and thus very effective.
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Rockpanel Case Study
Nikolaus Von Weis Gymnasium - Germany
Rockpanel Colours RAL 110 70 50 — Public - Schools / Universities

Germany

Artful addition to the Nikolaus-von-Weis-Gymnasium

Thanks to their flexible construction, school buildings from the 1970s are often very suitable for conversions and additions. The same goes for the building of the Nikolaus-von-Weis-Gymnasium in Speyer (Germany), originally built in 1972. Architect Christfried Rudolph from Bad Dürkheim added four new classrooms to the school and the front of the stairwell is now decorated with a building-high work of art made of milled Rockpanel facade boards.
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Case Study Italy Bicgrill — Public - Other

Italy

A multifunctional structure in perfect harmony with nature

In Marciaga di Costermano, a small town in the province of Verona (Italy), an unused municipal area has been transformed into a so-called bicigrill, a multi-purpose centre for social activities.
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Rockpanel Case Study
Sweden Storbildsfabriken
Rockpanel Naturals — Industrial - Warehouses

Sweden

Unique business premises come to life with durable facade panels

In Linköping, Sweden you will find Storbildsfabriken, a creative supplier of communication solutions. To match the needs of the future, the company chose to use its creativity in the construction of their new headquarters, with facades that stand out from the surroundings thanks to smartly installed lighting and unique facade panels from Rockpanel.
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Case study Samvaerket
Rockpanel Natural
Rockpanel Colours RAL 8022
New Build — Public - Other

Denmark

Wind and weather create unique facade for church and cultural centre

With a simple facade design in earth tones, Kolding's new meeting point, Samvaerket, is created to blend in with the scenic surroundings. GPP Architects has designed the centre, which houses the church's activities and cultural events and is clad with facade panels in a raw and patinated look.
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Rockpanel Case Study Park070
Rockpanel Natural — Residential - Blocks of flats

Netherlands

PARK 070: A unique and sustainable residential project on top of air-raid shelter

Park070 is a flourishing, green, sustainable residential area with flats and houses in various sizes, located on the former site of the CBS office (central agency for statistics in The Netherlands). After a long period of neglect, Park070 gives the site a renewed and livable purpose.
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Case Study Sweden
Strykjarnet
rockpanel natural — Residential - Blocks of flats

Sweden

Iron-shaped building adds a bronze touch to life in Karlstad

Welcome to Brf. Strykjärnet in Karlstad, an apartment building with 25 residential units. . For cladding the facades, Rockpanel supplied untreated facade panels with a bronze-colored patina.
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New build of the Les Trèfles primary school in Anderlecht, Belgium with Rockpanel Natural & Rockpanel Chameleon exterior cladding. Les Trefles

Technical Support for working with Rockpanel boards

Rockpanel boards are easy to handle and work with. Let us guide you in creating your astonishing facade in the right way so you can enjoy it for many more years to come.

Technical Support

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Documentation & Tools

Get access to all of our available documentation and tools to help you!

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Building Information Modelling (BIM)

We provide BIM data files for the full range of its sustainable façade panels, which you can access and insert into digital building models.

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Material and use

The Rockpanel Natural boards are produced from compressed natural basalt, a sustainable and readily available volcanic rock and bonded with an organic binder from which all Rockpanel products derive their unique properties. The products combine the advantages of stone and workability wood.

The cladding boards are suitable for use as exterior cladding, applications along the roofline and for building detailing.

Getting great grades

Rockpanel Natural boards are available in the following grades:

Durable > For general applications around the roofline and exterior cladding.

^{* Available from 100 m²}

Dimensions & tolerances (mm)

	Durable
Panel dimensions	2500 or 3050
Panel width	1200 or 1250*
Panel thickness	10
Length/width tolerance	+2 / -2
Thickness tolerance	+0.5 / -0.5

Unique composition and properties

Flexibility built in

Rockpanel boards can be curved and bent easily to create amazing facades.

	Rockpanel Durable
Panel thickness (mm)	8
Panel dimensions (Arch, mm)	3050
Radius R minimal (mm)	2500
Angle α	69,9º
Chord (mm)	2864
Level (mm)	451
Common ground c.t.c. (mm)	400
Fixing distance c.t.c. (mm)	300

Easy to handle

Our boards are easy to handle on the building site, unlike many other materials, and therefore quicker and easier to install.

Nominal mass of surface	kg/m²
Rockpanel Durable 8 mm	8.4
High Pressure Laminate (HPL) 8 mm	11.1
Fiber Cement Board (FCB) 8 mm	15.4

Stable as a rock

Our boards are not affected by fluctuations in humidity or temperature and are therefor very dimensionally stable.

Dimensional stability (EN 438-2)	mm/(m·K)
Rockpanel Durable	10,5 · 10-3
Concrete	12 · 10-3
Fibre Cement Board (FCB)	15 · 10-3
High Pressure Laminate (HPL)	28 · 10-3

More flexibility in size, greater cost efficiency

We offer the possibility to deliver custom sized boards for you, adjusted to your project requirements*.

As a result of our innovative production process, the board can now be delivered in:

all lengths between 1700 and 3050 mm and
a width of 1200 or 1250 mm.
note: Textured Stones only available in 1200mm width and 3050mm and 2500mm length.

Even if a certain project requires a custom made thickness, do not hesitate to contact us. We will advise you on the possibilities.

^{* Minimal order per length 300 m²}

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