The former cloth factory ?Tuchfabrik? in Berlin appears now in a fresh, attractive look. Before entering the building, the visitor is going one step back into the history by looking at the new façade: for its design the architects used digital printed panels with patterns of yarn bundles as a reminiscence of the original building?s utilization. Tightly interwoven threads are shimmering in different colours on the grey-black background like an oversized tribute to the history of this place. The particularity of the solution lies in the application of light aluminium sandwich panels. The printing motives on each of the 440 sheets are unique ? thus every panel has its own ID as well as its own allocation.    
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Architects: NPS Tchoban Voss

Location: Friedrich-Olbricht-Damm 62, 13627 Berlin, Germany

Architect In Charge: Sergei Tchoban

Area: 2860.0 sqm

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Werner Huthmacher, Greg Bannan

Creative Director Façade Design: Valeria Kashirina

Corporate Identity: Valeria Kashirina

Project Manager : Pavel Zemskov

Team: Katja Fuks, Silvia Grischkat, Lev Chestakov

Client: FOD Immobilien GmbH

© Werner Huthmacher

From the architect. The former cloth factory ?Tuchfabrik? in Berlin appears now in a ...