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ActiveTM Clean Air & Antibacterial Surfaces

ACTIVE™, OUR COMMITMENT TO A BETTER WORLD
Fiandre and Iris Ceramica, within the framework of their research and innovation activities, have developed a new production method geared towards materials whose active principle helps to improve the quality of the environment.

 

Urban benzene and population exposure

People aren't just at risk from carcinogenic benzene when they are out on city streets: sadly, the air is polluted also inside of buildings. Scientific research has demonstrated that, among all the materials for inside walls and floors, technical ceramics are the least pollution-prone.

 

ASTM Test

Founded in 1898, ASTM International is a not-for-profit organization that provides a global forum for the development and publication of voluntary consensus standards for materials, products, systems, and services.

 

The technical and aesthetic requirements of SPA

When building a spa, the choice of every element is important: from colour schemes to prestigious, resistant, effective materials like ceramics; from sound to lighting effects, which can be accentuated using special plasters.

 

Exterior flooring. Applications and benefits

Combining attractive appearance with practicality, reconciling the aesthetic demands of architecture with easy maintenance: these are increasingly important requirements of public and private clients for exterior tiles and floors. For this "skin", which must be visually attractive while offering great strength and durability, stone and porcelain tile offer increasingly advanced materials and technologies.

 

Itineraries

Dubai architectural itinerary

Dubai is the capital of one of the seven states making up the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a federation created when Great Britain withdrew from the area in 1971. The city is characterised by its unique experimental architecture; an ongoing competition to build the tallest skyscraper, with the most unusual shape. One construction site after another continues to transform the desert of the Arab Emirates into artificial oases, and countless buildings or whole city districts are built on land reclaimed from the sea, such as the third residential mega-palm built in the waters of the Gulf.

Porto architectural itinerary

from Area 65
Porto in four modern and contemporary architecture itineraries: designs before 1974, the masters, compositional abstraction and details of construction, overcoming barriers.

Berlin architectural itinerary

From Area 66
Berlin is without doubt one of the conduits of national and international currents. Scarcely anywhere else do such opposing views on architecture exist - with the consequence that planning and building in Berlin are extremely polarized.

Madrid architectural itinerary

From Area 67
Madrid is Europe's third largest city, after London and Paris, and is currently investing huge resources in construction - more than any other European city except Berlin.

London architectural itinerary

In dealing with the task to take a picture of contemporary architecture in London, we come across the dynamism with which sometimes whole areas become subject to radical changes.

 

Projects

Blumenhotel

The Blumenhotel is a four-star hotel with 110 rooms in St. Veit an der Glan, the City of Flowers near Klagenfurt, capital of Carinthia in Austria.
Materials:Eiffelgres Porcelain Stoneware
Design team: Spado Architects & Ogris.Wanek Architects

New Nusco Porte showroom

Nusco Porte’s new showroom is a high impact space which attracts visitors’ attention and makes a great impression, underlining the quality of the Group’s products on display in a simple setting while at the same time attracting attention to the view outside through the glass walls all around the building.

Hotel & Spa Bad Waltersdorf

The Bad Waltersdorf Hotel & Spa is a four-star hotel between Graz and Vienna built on the basis of an approach that integrates traditional yet contemporary built elements with nature.

ElbePark shopping centre

Dresden’s ElbePark, one of the busiest shopping centres in the capital city of Saxony, the epitome of a successful blend of shopping and entertainment, has been subjected to an effective redevelopment and renewal project with a particular emphasis on surfaces and floors.

Sou Fujimoto, House O, Chiba, Japan, 2007

Sou Fujimoto, House O, Japan