THERMAL, BUDGETARY AND ARCHITECTURAL CONSTRAINTS OVERCOME WITH CERAMIC CLADDING
NEPTUNE GRAND LARGE
Location: Grand Large district, Dunkirk, France
Architects: Babel (Michel Seban, Elisabeth Douillet, Bernard Mauplot)
Date of construction: 2015
Info: With this housing development featuring a single-skin cladding in the Grand Large area of Dunkirk. France, the Babel agency breathed life into a vision so that it qualifies as efficient and poetic. These buildings had to meet thermal, budgetary and architectural constraints, and the architects have succeeded in infusing them with their inspiration and using a unique ceramic cladding.
The Ceramic façade panels have a very long technical lifetime (> 150 years). This is much longer as the average lifetime of a modern building. The panels are mounted by a click – system to the façade construction and can be removed and used again in another building after end of life of the building.
