ᐅ Alternative to wood cladding on the exterior wall

The planned exterior wall of our new four-unit building is expected to be mostly single-layered, with some sections painted dark gray. In the architect’s visualizations, it looks modern but also somewhat... boring...

We find the possible accentuation with wood applications much more appealing (an example is attached). However, in a weathered appearance, it already looks only half as nice.

Does anyone have ideas on how this brown color can be preserved despite rain and some sunlight exposure (north side of the building)? Repainting every four years seems too frequent, especially since scaffolding would be needed immediately.

Or are you aware of alternatives, for example made of plastic?

Maybe some of you have experience with this!

Hello

I don’t see an example.
Alternatively, clad with HPL panels
or fiber cement.

Oli

Well, it seems the attachment didn’t work. Here is the example image.

Which floor would it be in the four-unit building?

The entire house would have 2 full floors plus a recessed top floor. We are not fixed on the location of the installations. However, the ground floor alone is probably not an option for us.

We have something like this on the upper floor facing south and at the entrance on the north side.
The south side fades quite quickly. The north side doesn’t fade at all.

You can also do the second floor yourself quite well if it’s only partially done.
We have a small scaffold that is 2 meters (6.5 feet) wide, which is plenty.

I have also told my husband that we should replace it with plastic sometime. However, we don’t have larch wood.

If we do, I would choose larch.
Or plastic, if it looks the same.