Alternative to wood application on the exterior wall

The presumably single-shell exterior wall, partially accented with dark gray paint, of our planned 4-unit new building appears modern but also somewhat... boring... in most of the architect's visualizations.

We find the possible accentuation with wood applications extremely appealing (an example is attached). However, in a weathered look, the whole thing only looks half as nice anymore.

Does anyone have an idea here of how this brown color can be preserved despite rain and slight sunlight exposure (north side of the house)? Painting every 4 years would be too much for us, especially since scaffolding would have to be set up immediately.

Or do you know of alternatives, e.g., made of plastic?

Maybe some of you have experience with this!

Hello hello

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

Oli

Well, the attachment probably didn't work. Here is the sample image.

Which floor would it be in the 4-unit house?

The entire building would be 2 full floors + a recessed floor. We are not fixed on the location of the applications. Although the ground floor alone is probably not our case.

We have something like that in the south on the upper floor and in the north at the entrance. The south fades quite quickly. The north not at all.

The second floor can also still be done well by yourself if it is really only partially designed. We have a small scaffold 2 meters wide, which is completely sufficient.

But I have already told my husband that we will replace it with plastic sometime. However, we don't have any larch.

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