MULTI TOWER

Multi Tower, Place De Brouckere in Brussels, Belgium.

Located in the historic heart of Brussels, the Multi project gave a second life to this H-shaped tower on its three-storey base built in the 1960s as the former headquarters of the multinational Phillips in Belgium. This building will serve as the cornerstone of the regeneration of a larger area of this part of the historic Centre of Brussels.

The main facade typology is a bespoke unitised curtain wall system incorporating ceramic decorative elements.

Materials and colours have been carefully selected to provide the new building with light, openness and transparency in order to alleviate the massiveness of its volume.

Images: Marc Detiffe

TANGER 36

Office building at 36 Tánger Street in the 22@ district, Barcelona.

Offices integrated into the industrial past of Poblenou by means of a façade in ceramic tones, with a large access atrium that acts as a climatic refuge for the city.

The works consist of the design, manufacture and assembly of an interior skin of curtain wall stick characterised by the large dimensions of the glass in the vision area, which will give the offices a great sensation of amplitude and luminosity, as well as the installation over the blind areas of terracotta ceramic pieces, for which an ad hoc solution has had to be designed for the project.

The façade is completed with a double skin with a powder coated maintenance walkway and an outer skin with new extruded aluminium slats, all under the highest quality standards to achieve the building’s WELL Building Standard certification.

Images: Antonio Navarro Wijkmar

Duro Felguera HQ

Engineering centre for Duro Fleguera in the technology park in Gijón, the company’s home town.

The main targete of Strunor’s intervention was to give the stick curtain wall façade optimum energy efficiency to provide its occupants with maximum comfort.

Bolueta Towers

The Bolueta Towers, located in the Bilbao neighbourhood of the same name, are, at the time of their construction, the tallest Passivhaus-certified residential buildings in the world.

On the site formerly occupied by the first steelworks in Bilbao, a pair of towers, the tallest of which is 88 metres high, have been erected for the generation of needed subsidised housing.

Both architecturally and in terms of energy efficiency, this tower is a worldwide landmark given its almost zero consumption, derived from the materials used and the airtightness of its envelope.

The almost 3,000 aluminium panels that cover the façade are fundamental in insulating the building. Their design is a nod to the area’s industrial past, as they mimmick mineral coal slabs.

34 Velazquez

Prefabricated modular window system with dimensions of 5,300 x 2,800 mm, made with a perimeter steel frame that serves as a pre-frame for the fixed lights and to support the inner and outer PPC steel linings, as well as the insulation package.

The double glazing units of 5,000 x 2,200 mm weighing up to 770kg at the chamfers, were installed on site.

Structural fascia manufactured from a folded steel section of 350 x 150 mm and 15 mm thickness. Standard lengths of 5,800 mm in hop dip galvanised and PPC finish.

Renson’s external blinds are characterised by their large dimensions and unique solutions: blinds with maximum dimensions in the chamfers 4,900 x 2,400 mm in a single piece without intermediate guide and corner blinds without guide featuring a 90º zip closure.

99 Lagasca

Designed by prestigious architectural practice Rafael de La-Hoz, 99 Lagasca is set to become an iconic building for Madrid.

Lagasca 99 is the most exclusive residential block in the capital, introducing a new dwelling concept in the heart of the Salamanca district. A different place to live, with large spaces, natural light, energy efficiency and cutting-edge technology.

Designed from the inside out, three skins have been created that respond to the rooms behind them. Wood, stone and glass, as a membrane that sifts and regulates to a greater or lesser degree the intimacy and lighting of each of the spaces.

More than a thousand joinery items, comprising fixed lights, sliding and hinged frames make up the enclosure of the building’s interior skin, with flat, partially curved and curved glass; a large part of them in large formats of up to almost 8 m wide by 2.75 m high in the single-storey pieces and 3.16 x 4.75 m in the double-height areas.

The entire perimeter of the building on the ground floor is highlighted with a U-shaped steel fascia on which the glass panes that make up the second skin of the façade are supported, between wooden and stone slats, with dimensions of 2.75 x 6.00 m. in width by height.