Tag Health & Wellness

ACTIVE SURFACES<sup>®</sup>: surfaces for healthy, protected, comfortable environments

22-02-2022

ACTIVE SURFACES^®: surfaces for healthy, protected, comfortable environments

Improving quality of life in everyday spaces by reducing pollutants and guaranteeing protection and comfort is indispensable today. As the Iris Ceramica Group has demonstrated, this can be done with surfaces, using ACTIVE SURFACES® technology to create spaces where the beauty of the best ceramic slabs goes hand in hand with long-lasting safety and prevention

26-08-2021

Architecture that helps, Snail Baby Growth Center by TOWODesign

Snail Baby Growth Center, designed by Chinese studio TOWODesign in Shanghai, is an environment for users with special needs. Despite a limited budget, the designers have created a space with a warm and welcoming atmosphere.

25-08-2021

Welfare Architecture for all, C.F. Møller Architects

C.F. Møller Architects is one of Scandinavia's leading architectural practices, with over 90 years of award-winning work both in the Nordic region and worldwide. A monograph, published by Arvinius + Orfeus in Stockholm and edited by Francesca Perry, presents the firm's design approach that integrates urban planning, landscape and architecture in a unique way.

23-07-2021

Floating Realities, a spa in Geneva designed by BUREAU

Architectural practice BUREAU renewed a spa in Geneva. The studio approached the idea of psychological and physical wellness on the basis of the experience of floating in water, in a state of fluid suspension. To make the most of the relaxing experience of the spa, the architects have designed a world dominated by pastel colours.

21-05-2021

A brick and wood building by EMBT for the Kàlida Centre

Benedetta Miralles Tagliabue’s studio EMBT built a brick building with enamelled ceramic inserts for the Kàlida Centre

27-04-2021

ACTIVE SURFACES™ ceramics: a concrete solution for fighting Covid-19

Continuing the lengthy process of research and scientific innovation that led to the invention of the ACTIVE SURFACES™ method, the Iris Ceramica Group has achieved an important milestone in advanced materials capable of improving people’s lives and the environment we live in. Recent scientific studies have confirmed the ability of ACTIVE SURFACES™ high-performing ceramics to destroy up to 94% of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in only 4 hours of exposure to low-intensity UV light (such as sunlight or a traditional lightbulb)

10-02-2021

Inflexion Builds’ Wellington Gym

The new American architecture and design studio Inflexion Builds has converted a garage in Los Angeles into a miniature gym on the basis of the concept of the ADU: Accessory Dwelling Unit. The gym meets the needs of a young couple of home-fitness influencers arising out of lifestyle changes due to the pandemic.

06-11-2020

Locally grown produce with a Vertical Farm in Copenhagen

New challenges need new responses. Vertical Farming is a solution that delivers efficient agriculture in terms of resources, uses sustainable energy and is an excellent farm-to-fork strategy. After Taoyuan, Taiwan and Shenzhen in China, the YesHealth Group has now opened a new-generation Vertical Farm in Europe - Copenhagen to be exact.

27-10-2020

Seventyonepercent: the bathroom of authentic, distinctive design

The Iris Ceramica Group’s Seventyonepercent brand, launched with a collection designed by Paolo Castelli S.p.A., offers a new vision of contemporary bathroom furnishings. Presented at the Group’s new flagship store in Milan, Seventyonepercent represents the new identity of the contemporary bathroom, in which high-tech ceramic offers unique, regenerating aesthetic experiences inspired by the values of integration, balance and harmony among the elements. Floornature talked to designer Paolo Castelli about the details of the four lines, Globe, Inspiration, Suite and Thirties