Architecture in tiles and water jet cutting
A building’s skin expresses the intensity of its design in the materials used to cover it. Fiandre responds to this need with high-tech wall tiles which are the result of integration of materials research and design.
The form of the new architecture requires skilful work to implement ideas which are increasingly exasperated in form.
Important assistance comes from processes applicable to production such as polishing and water jet cutting: technologies which can produce surfaces with finishes that have different degrees of gloss and may be put together from parts. Water jet cutting is used to cut particularly dense materials with millimetric precision directly on the basis of a vectorial design, giving free rein to designers’ and architects’ creativity. And not only that: use of large formats permits custom solutions in flooring and ventilated walls.
The result is a new alphabet of contemporary architecture that not only draws on a wide range of sizes and colours but applies individual variations directly to the design.
One example: a surface that meets these requirements may be found in the Geodiamond series, materials that blend metals with high-tech ceramics, used in the showrooms of Armani, Ferrari, Fendi and Christian Dior.
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