Composite Facade Klimop Delft Raficlad

In this project, Raficlad® composite facade paneling was used as front panels in unit construction. This is because of its pleasing appearance in general, and in particular to give the complex the appearance of permanent construction.

Mecanoo architecten from Delft chose to mimic ivy in the facade. This is possible thanks to the transparent Raficlad, in which we inserted aluminum leaves during production. These leaves are actually trapped within the composite wall panels. This effect has been implemented over the entire height of the building.

Nice detail is that, like real ivy, denser vegetation occurs at the bottom and it slowly opens up as the ivy grows higher.

Originally, the plan was to actually grow real ivy in the racks on the facade. But since the composite facade panels from Raficlad turned out so nicely, it was decided to forget this.

The facade area relevant to us was 945 m². Development, production, transport and assembly by Holland Composites.