Comments on: Housing Hatert by 24H architecture

By: manolo

manolo — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 05:35:57 +0000

I think the timber cladding is fine. I reckon they didn't clad the soffits and used timber decking so that rain water can drip through the gaps. Save the costs for floor wastes and ugly down pipes. And a smooth surface decking is simply to slippery. I can't see a lack of thoughts about the finishes. Actually it's the contrary.

By: turtle

turtle — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:16:48 +0000

They should have used Prodema not timber cladding. The soffits hould have been lined with the timber cladding and the decking should have smooth surface. Seems like a general lack of thought as to finishes. but thumbs up for the overall idea.

By: aLeX

aLeX — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:44:10 +0000

It looks like that because it's a social dwelling building – ment for low income people, but the architect didn't want to come up with the ugly facade just because of that; so they found good price/design solution to make payable appartments + luxury balconies + give some more value to the neighbourhood, which was the worst neighbourhood of the city, but at the moment is in the developing.

By: Eleno Choo

Eleno Choo — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 14:29:12 +0000

Aqua Tower revisited

By: edward

edward — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:59:31 +0000

Nice bit of design work enlivening a necessarily mundane brief.