A rain screen with closed joints (115)

Rain screen façades solved with thin claddings are a good solution in terms of watertightness and sun radiation protection. In addition, they permit a wide range of image variations and so are supposed to be a gift for most architects. However, for some, all those open joint claddings somehow give a sense of insufficient robustness; the wall is just a veneer, a veil. 

The desire to recover the image of robust, stone walls is probably behind the solution adopted in this building: a rainscreen façade solved with a thin stone cladding, WITH CLOSED JOINTS! Only the joints around the windows are open.

The green stone and the order of the large bronze-coloured frames surrounding the windows give a really suggestive image.

But does knowing what it is, rather than what it looks like, annoy you?

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Previous comments were written after a visit when the building was being built in 2019.
In 2024, we revisited it. The three last images were taken on this second visit. The façade had been refurbished, and the stone cladding was replaced in different areas of the facades.