Wolkenstein
Wolkenstein in Meran, Italy
Wolkenstein is designed by Holz Box Tirol and Di Anton Hoss. Marquees and sunshades usually spell the death of every architecture with ambition. For that reason, the architects of a four-storey residential building in Meran have taken precautions to prevent unregulated design elements appearing at random on the balconies of the twelve apartments, they equipped each outdoor space with a textile membrane, stretched over a vertical steel frame and protecting half of every balcony from onlookers and the sun’s rays. The coloured textiles in chess-board pattern are distributed over the different storeys, an arrangement that emerged from the mirroring of the apartment architectural design on each storey As every fabric sail displays a different colour, it gives each apartment an individual note, although the fa?ade still looks as though it is designed uniformly Ready-made, solid panels of treated pinewood serve for the construction of the balconies and the remaining building. They project as a wall section, carry the flooring in the outdoor areas and function as a partition wall. The upper layer of the balcony floors is made of glued pinewood, which is more weather-resistant.
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