Simple, colourful or crazy: depending the techniques you will use, you can give radically different characters to your house, have it discreet or make people look at it!
We have tested this tutorial for you with some of our favourite buildings, look:
Checkerboard pattern on the Cell brick house by Tekuto architects // we used cut out black rectangles pasted on white paper + see our hut version in the bonus !
Pink waterproof membrane of Villa Hermina by HSH Architekti (Cernín – Czech Republic) // we used watercolour paint in chewing-gum colour
Enamelled terracotta tubes for the Brandhorst Museum by Sauerbruch & Hutton (Munich-Germany) // we used colour pencils
Random metal membrane around Manny building by Tetrarc (Nantes – France) // We paste cut out paper ribbons
Minimalist windows for the House in a plum grove by Kazuyo Sejima (Tokyo – Japan) // we used a very fine pen
Random windows on SESC Pompeia center by Lina bo Bardi (São Paulo – Brazil) // we made ink stains
Triangular windows on Cité du design by LIN (Saint-Etienne – France) // we used a protractor, a ruler and ink
Fake heritage facade and contemporary windows on Barrière Hotel by Edouard François (Paris – France) // we used carbon paper and stamps made out of rubber
Small prism shaped windows for the SMAC by BMC2 (Auxerre – France) // we used stamps made out of rubber + pencil lines
Different sorts of bricks for the experimental Muuratsalo house by Alvar Aalto (Muuratsalo island – Finland) // we used different stamps made out of rubber
Big holes in the Orange Cube by Jakob & Mac Farlane (Lyon – France) // we used a felt-pen
You see? There are so many possibilities! Your turn now!