Lifestyle by porcelanosa issue 18

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THE SUM OF OUR VALUES

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Marina: eight years old

Cover photograph: A detail of the Hotel Amanyara’s swimming pool, on the archipelago of Turks & Caicos Islands (Caribbean).

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EDITORIAL BOARD

Cristina Colonques Ricardo Ferrer Francisco Peris Félix Balado PUBLISHER

Ediciones Condé Nast S.A. MANAGING EDITOR

Sandra del Río ART & DESIGN DIRECTOR

Some days ago, we received a very special letter. So special that we want to share with our customers, with our contributors and with all those who make Porcelanosa Group a window opened to the creativity, talent and leadership of an emblematic sector.

“Last May my little daughter (8 years old) went on a visit to your factory with her school group. She came back exceedingly delighted with everything she had seen in there – its dimensions, its organisation, its bicycles (above all, that of the “ruladora”), the techniques employed to verify the resilience of new materials, the hall with photographs of famous people… She was astonished. Her actual words were, “I’d never seen so much glamour inside a factory.” We had to soak up all the catalogues that they were presented with… and hence my message.

This summer we intend to make some improvements at home, and we wanted to install a parquet floor, but… thanks to the catalogues from Porcelanosa, we will instead place one of your models of stoneware tiles imitating parquet, which is gorgeous. Curious, isn’t it?

Well, I want you to know that children’s visits don’t go in one ear and out the other, and this is not because I believe that by changing my flooring at home such visits won’t be discontinued, but I am sure that all these children and their families will never forget that Porcelanosa is a great brand. Thank you.” That was Eva Vidalros. Eva’s letter, her daughter’s enthusiastic depiction… all this fills us with pride and joy. And it reaffirms our values and challenges – working on the present, creating the future, achieving excellence.

Vital R. García TRANSLATORS

Paloma Gil (English) Geneviève Naud (French) Lionbridge (Russian) COPY EDITOR

Sarah E. Rogers (English) COORDINATION

Marta Sahelices (Project Coordinator) Andrea Morán (Print Edition) Sukeina Aali-Taleb (Features) Rosa Marqués (Features) PHOTOGRAPHERS

Daniel Balda Sergio Martínez David Ralita PRODUCTION

Francisco Morote (Director) Rosana Vicente Juan Ignacio Bocos Fernando Bohúa ARCHIVES

Reyes Domínguez (Director) Irene Rodríguez Eva Vergarachea Begoña Sobrín PHOTO LAB

Espacio y Punto PRINTER

A.G.S. and Altair Impresia binding

Toarsa Catalogue no.: M-51752-2002

Infography of one of the winning projects in the 2011 4th Architecture and Interior Design Prizes awarded by Porcelanosa Group.

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8 INTERIOR DESIGN NEWS A detailed account of Milan Furniture Fair and Estudihac’s novelties.

you their projects in all different categories – Professionals, Students and Completed Projects.

64 GEOTHERMICS DOSSIER Butech discloses the secrets of geothermics.

28 CAN MANA, ON IBIZA A private home in Can Martinet with views to the Mediterranean Sea, glazed walls and open-plan spaces.

68 DEBORAH BERKE AND HER WORK

12 ARCHITECTURE NEWS A new Marine Research Centre comes to Bali and Ignacio García de Vinuesa reflects on functionality and beauty.

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72 PROJECT: ‘LA TÉRMICA’

MANUEL TORRES The secret of his work: “Creating good design and offering personal auteur projects.”

A residential development in Almería recovering the old terrains of a thermic plant.

14 A CONFERENCE IN MEXICO CITY

38 HOTEL BARCELÓ ON BAVARO BEACH

Alonso and Balaguer delivered a speech at the Soumaya Museum.

Porcelanosa products travel to the Dominican Republic in order to create a five-star resort in Punta Cana.

74 WE TRAVEL TO SEVERAL DESTINATIONS AND THEIR MOST OUTSTANDING HOTELS From London to Turks & Caicos Islands, and stopping in Vannes, discover the best of each place.

42 8 BRANDS / 8 ARCHITECTS

84 HI PANDA PROJECT

What is architecture for eight renowned architects? They have accepted to share with Porcelanosa their opinions on the profession, and we have created eight spaces with the best of the Ceramics, Kitchen and Bath Fair.

The famous fashion and accessories firm is landing in Paris accompanied by Krion®.

10 A-CERO’S NEW SHOWROOM Joaquín Torres’s studio opens a shop in Madrid’s Salamanca district.

16 FORMULA 1 Porcelanosa could not miss the Grand Prix of Europe, Valencia Street Circuit.

18 AWARDS CEREMONY FOR THE 4TH ARCHITECTURE AND INTERIOR DESIGN PRIZES Madrid’s Casino hosts the awards gala for the best architects in 2011. We are showing

56 A BEVERLY HILLS HOME We have visited a house perched on the ‘Peak of Desires’ to check how the Group’s products create spaces for luxury and comfort.

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We have gone to New York to discover the delicate and elegant know-how of this emblematic architect.

88 PORCELANOSA IN THE WORLD 90 WE’LL BE TALKING ABOUT...

Porcelanosa’s ample and novel showroom designed by the A-Cero studio.

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MILAN: Every year’s grand rendezvous

NOT EVERYTHING IS OK

proposals, there has been the presentation of Piana, a chair designed by David Chipperfield for Alessi, and whose geometrical lines can be astonishingly folded. Also exhibited was the Tip Ton chair, designed by Edward Barber & Jay Osgerby for Vitra, which is reminiscent of a fun rocking toy.

ABOVE Piana, a chair designed by David Chipperfield for Alessi BELOW Tip Ton chair, by Edward Barber & Jay Osgerby for Vitra

Photos: Marc Eggimann.

In the month of April the most awaitedfor rendezvous in the world of design takes place: Milan Furniture Fair. In just one week, quality proposals and risky objects exude good design. A showcase for all that will set trends throughout the year.

Pieces that on occasion will be showed off in the halls of museums all over the world, crossing the fine line between design and art. In the current edition, among the varied

José Manuel Ferrero

(EstudiHac)

In the end, everything always turns out as it should, and right now, and thanks to this, we are starting to value a good job, good know-how, good execution, quality in projects and in products.

For if things can be done well, there is no reason not to do so. Work done well has always been around, but it’s high time to prove the quality of good Spanish design, too. A new stage is opened when a good designer who appreciates the companies’ values and hidden potentials brings about new interesting projects for an international market. The only thing left is to join the company with

Photo: Mayte Piera.

HONEYCOMBS ON THE BED After the success achieved by the Tea sofas and armchairs, EstudiHac has completed the collection with decorative panels evoking hexagonal drawings of bees’ honeycombs.

They are manufactured by Sancal and will add a fun and original touch to your bedroom, hall or lounge, thanks to a versatile design that allows for it to be adapted to multiple contexts. Moreover, combinations are infinite. the suitable designer or creative to attain success. In Spain there have always been potentially very strong companies, both in the economic and the industrial-technological fields, but they have not been able to redirect their offer at the right time. In this new stage new links between companies and designers are being created with the same objective: to offer a distinct, emotional and high-quality product.

This is the time to start seriously risking for a safe value: quality design.

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The exhibition space is for you to admire the work

by A-cero, as well as to purchase any of its interior decoration pieces, like this kitchen (left) devised with Krion®, from System-Pool –outstanding for its organic lines, its warmth to the touch and, above all, for its perfect adaptation to this home space, since it is an antibacterial material able to resist high temperatures.

CLOCKWISE, SOME OF THE PEOPLE PRESENT Javier Monsalve and Esperanza Aguirre next to Joaquín Torres; Nieves Álvarez, Nuria March and Laura Sánchez with the

A new space for A-cero (and Krion) is born On the occasion of the opening of A-cero In – a new exhibition and sales space for furniture and interior decoration designed by the A-cero team (directed by Joaquín Torres and his partner Rafael Llamazares) – this showroom event was attended by a number of well-known faces, ranging from Esperanza Aguirre to Ana Rosa Quintana and models Nieves Álvarez and Laura Sánchez. Located in the very heart of the Salamanca district (Castelló 66, Madrid) and with an area of 700 m2, decoration pieces developed by the studio can be seen and purchased here now for the first time.

architect; Fernando Hierro and his wife and Ana Rosa Quintana and Juan Muñoz accompanying the host.

ABOVE From sofas to accessories, all pieces have been designed by the studio.

Thus, apart from strengthening their interior decoration department, Joaquín Torres wants “to offer the public the opportunity of entrusting us with ‘a slice’ of their homes without the need for doing an integral project.”

Designed as a space for art, A-cero In has also a selection of works by promising young artists, and also antiques, books, drawings by Joaquín Torres and even music. “Also, all the furniture was designed by A-cero, we don’t design for other architects. We understand architecture as a global concept, this celebrities’ architect clarifies.

In sum, A-cero In, as Torres concludes, “offers the market signature furniture and the possibility of harmonising it within a consistent atmosphere,” from sofas, tables and armchairs to kitchens, like the one devised with Krion®, surprising for its pure and organic forms. /

> porcelanosa news architecture IGNACIO GARCÍA DE VINUESA

ARCHITECT AND INTERIOR DESIGNERS

BEAUTY AND FUNCTION... IN TIMES OF CRISIS

The American architecture studio Solus4 has been responsible for this ambitious project: a Marine Research Centre located on the sea, 150 metres away from Kuta beach, in Bali, Indonesia. Well-integrated into its aquatic environs, the building simulates the winding forms of waves. It has a smooth structure that reinforces its direct visual connection with the outside. A total of 2,500 square metres devoted to the research and circulation of such marine phenomena as tsunamis. The construction will be conducted under sustainable criteria and will have space for submarine laboratories, rooms for scientists, an auditorium and ample underwater zones.

A SMALL OBJECT OF DESIRE Skygarden is a ceiling lamp designed by the unmistakable Marcel Wanders for the famous Italian lighting firm Flos (www.flos. com). Its elegant design is surprising owing to the beautiful cast plaster garden that appears on the inside. You can find it in different tones and two sizes: large, with a diameter of 90 cm, and small, 60 cm.

Photos: Tangram 3DS LLC.

Defying the ocean

Life itself should be functionally beautiful. When an element is just beautiful, society rejects it in the end, and when it is just functional, it will soon have a substitute. This ‘functionform’ binomial is the driving force that moves the engines of today’s industrial revolution... that of aesthetics. In the latest decades of boom, all societies have over and over again consumed both bad and good products, hardly differentiating them. There was no time to compare, only to consume. However, the crisis came and all that non-functional beauty died, gradually twisting itself around to death… the sad death of beautiful but useless things. In Spain there were thousands of beautiful… but bad restaurants. How many of them are left now? Others were good but ugly, some of which have survived. However, those that were functionally well-organised and well-designed (both for their premises and their food) and were essentially beautiful, too, have kept on turning a profit in the worst months, and are still doing so. The crisis has left them almost unaffected – instead, they are reinforced now, as their ‘bad competitors’ have died. When my office starts a project, we always explain the process to our customers, based on a scheme of how their premises, houses, offices, should work. And, generally speaking, I perceive a certain perplexity in many of them, for they think that they can put the cart before the horse (they want to choose the cushions and curtains before deciding where the kitchen will be). This must be a part of that fashion craze for beauty in itself. I don’t conceive that this is valid at all, unless it carries a function along with it. In general, organising programmes, devising working schemes, usage percentages, and so on, is boring for anyone, but I have clearly verified that, if you don’t devote enough time to that stage, the final product ends up dying drowned by its own fame. The moral: good, beautiful and cheap rule!!!!! (anyway, there would be much to say about the prices of food in Spain).

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Alonso-Balaguer and Porcelanosa, together in Mexico City Porcelanosa Group, under the careful coordination of Porcelanosa Mexico, organised last June the conference ‘Designing from Barcelona: Architecture as an added value’, a speech delivered by architects Luis Alonso and Sergio Balaguer, from the reputed Barcelona studio of ABAA (Alonso-Balaguer and Associated Architects). During the conference, characterised by those in charge of the event as a clear success for its organisation and attendance, such relevant topics as “the needed flexibility of architecture” and “its aspects of environmental responsibility” were tackled.

This meeting for methodological exchange – attended by around 600 of the most important architects in Mexico City – took place at the auditorium of the Soumaya Museum in the Mexican capital, the building constructed under the sponsorship of the richest man in the world, Carlos Slim, in which the most important pieces of his vast collection of artworks are exhibited. /

ABOVE Lobby of the Soumaya Museum, Mexico City RIGHT Silvestre Segarra, Luis Alonso, Alfredo Enríquez and Sergio Balaguer talking during the event

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1. Luis Alonso (lecturer) 2. A general view of the conference venue during the lecture 3. The event’s host, Martha Debayle 4. Sergio Balaguer 5. Manuel Covarrubias and Carlos Turban 6. Héctor Cárdenas 7. Nadia Borrás 8. Alejandro Viniegra and Pablo Algara 9. Gabriel Salazar and Fernando Castañón together with a companion 10. Mauricio Arditti 11. Gilles Vignal and Pablo Caso 12. Fernanda González and Andrea Soria

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Porcelanosa, close to the race track

ABOVE Throughout the training and race weekend, the attending audience had customised service at the terrace (20 hostesses) and free food and drinks in all hired spaces. Many of the attendees were rewarded for their loyalty in taking part in the ‘Butech takes you to Formula 1’ campaign, with which a large number of professionals in the construction field could enjoy

Photo: Cordon

On occasion of the Formula 1 Grand Prix of Europe in the Valencia Street Circuit, Porcelanosa Group has chosen to further gratify its most important customers with an invitation to the VIP terrace of Las Ánimas, in Valencia Port. A space of almost 3,000 m2 from which the circuit training sessions and the Sunday race can be viewed – on 10 LCD screens or in the 4-x-3-metre central LED screen – accompanied by the music of internationally renowned DJs. Porcelanosa’s 320 guests (of diverse nationalities: from Spain, France, Russia, Italy, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Morocco, etc.) had the opportunity to enjoy an exquisite outdoor catering spread, as well as wine tasting and an open bar. As a novelty, this year the terrace was fitted with a Zon Air Space (www.zonair3d.com), an oxygen bubble in which massages are offered. Later in the evening, the attendees could enjoy the live performances of a classic band rock and access to exclusive night parties. /

Valencia’s Grand Prix thanks to the points accrued on their Professional Class card.

LEFT AND BELOW 320 guests had access, besides, to the night parties at the Terrace of Las Ánimas Port and the private parties at the Umbracle and the Hotel Spa Las Arenas.

LEFT INSET Fernando Alonso, with his Ferrari, celebrates his deserved second place.

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THE GREAT

CREATIVITYPARTY Porcelanosa Group awarded the 4th Architecture and Interior Design Prizes at a gala dinner attended by the best architects and interior designers in the country. The professional careers of Carlos Ferrater and Patricia Urquiola were paid tribute at this event.

LEFT The reception before the gala dinner took place in the ‘Patio de Honor’ of Madrid’s Casino BOTTOM LEFT During the dinner, held in the ‘Salón Real’ – also called ‘the Ballroom’, the most emblematic room in Madrid’s Casino – Michi Primo de Rivera was the host of the event.

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orcelanosa Group has recently awarded the 4th Architecture and Interior Design prizes during a gala dinner held at Madrid’s Casino and attended by over two hundred people, including the best architects and interior designers in the country. For we must highlight that the competition has recorded a spectacular progress in its 4th

edition, both qualitatively and quantitatively (over 200 projects were entered into the three categories of the competition). On this occasion, the participants faced the challenge of designing the interior of an urban loft using products from the Group and always taking into account the coherent design of spaces and intelligent use of materials. In the Student category, Bodgan

the RT+3 Arquitectos team (Special Mention Professionals) 19. Fran Silvestre with Emilio SánchezHorneros Viver-Sánchez (Special Mention Project Completed) 20. Ignacio García de Vinuesa hands out the prize to Francisca Forteza Mascaró (Special Mention Students) 21. Group photo of the winners and the jury next to Héctor Colonques, Porcelanosa Group Chairman

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Petrenko and Roman Bozhenko, from Ukraine’s Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture, won first prize with their futuristic project built over the sea and shaped like a scallop shell. In turn, Óscar Castro Plana won first prize in the Professional category with the unanimous approval of the jury (Rafael de La-Hoz, Joaquín Torres, Josep Riu, interior designer Ignacio García de Vinuesa and Fran Silvestre), who valued his original proposal and his application of the materials. In addition, Porcelanosa paid special recognition to royal architecture by awarding Martín Lejárraga first prize for the best Project Completed for the rehabilitation of the old fencing halls in the city of Cartagena. Porcelanosa Group also appreciated the careers of two of the most fashionable professionals today: Carlos Ferrater, who highlighted the need to foster the combination of architecture and industry as the key to the future in the sector, and Patricia Urquiola, who very emotively depicted her career and spoke about her understanding of the profession.

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1. Joaquín Torres, Patricia Urquiola, Porcelanosa Group’s Chairman Héctor Colonques, Carlos Ferrater and Ignacio García de Vinuesa

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Rafael Robledo 4. José María Olivas, Joan Lao, Santiago García and Víctor Felices 5. Héctor Colonques talking to Tomás Alía 6. Montse Clavero, Eduardo Merlo, Rosana García, Pilar Marcos, Raquel Agulleiro and Ana María Moreno 7. Ana Moix and José Manuel Ferrero 8. Héctor Colonques hands out the award to Carlos Ferrater for his professional achievements 9. Julio Touza, Andrés

Perea and Edgar González 10. Carlos Lamela, Cristina Colonques and Héctor Colonques 11. Joaquín Ruiz, José Ramón García, Guillermo García Hoz, Óscar Recuenco and Marisa Gutiérrez 12. Carlos Rubio, Rafael de La-Hoz and Alfonso Casares 13. Jaime Sanahuja, Alberto Breva and Jairo Paulo 14. Francesc Pernas, Juan Bautista Ramos, Vicente Benéitez and Fidel

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Santiago 15. Winner Óscar Castro Plana next to Joaquín Torres (First Prize Professionals) 16. Bogdan Petrenko and Roman Bozhenko take their prize from Fran Silvestre (First Prize Students) 17. The jury chairman, Rafael de La-Hoz, gives the trophy to Martín Lejárraga (First Prize Project Completed) 18. Josep Riu gives the prize to Carlos Lucas Nohales and to part of

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PROFESSIONALS: FIRST PRIZE

HONOURABLE MENTION

Loftpool

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or designer Óscar Castro Plana, “recovering old buildings for new uses is one of the incentives afforded by interior design.”

And, in a theoretical exercise, he has created this Loftpool, a sort of industrial premises with 200 m², large windows and a height of five metres, in which two areas are arranged clearly differentiated by concept: the central distribution axis is structured into the traditional areas of a domestic habitat (kitchen, lounge, bedroom and bathroom) and the perimeter area provides access among the areas in use and has two leisure spaces: one devoted to the body, and the other to the mind. In this perimeter area, and completing the wet area of the central distribution axis, Loftpool proposes to install a swimming lane embedded in a raised floor. The materials used are: G 980 series, from Gamadecor (kitchen); Noken elements (Neox toilet, supplementary Xl Loom basins and Essence tap gear); spa-bathtub under a top surface, from System-Pool and from L´Antic Colonial, among others, Fashion Variation Marines Mosaic (swimming pool), Natural Oak Rustic Planed Parquet and Strip Habana, in Dolomite white.

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arlos Lucas Nohales (RT+3 Arquitectos) claims that this is not just an interior design project, but it goes beyond, integrating project, design and interior decoration into a single concept: the lighting is general, furniture has an integral character, the materials shape the finishes, there is no need of ornament, there is nothing specific but function, which is only shown when the furniture pieces stop hiding their interior. Four main rooms are generated (bathroom, bedroom, living room and kitchen), which relate to one another through secondary spaces (spa, dressing room, studio, dining room and office), all of them revolving around a patio. The furniture has been devised with Microcemento, from Porcelanosa; Thule Oak, from L´Antic Colonial; Krion®; Acero and Ukola, from Gamadecor, and Loft series, from Noken.

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STUDENTS: FIRST PRIZE

HONOURABLE MENTION

MOTION IS LIFE

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he honourable mention was for Francisca Forteza Mascaró, from the Escola Superior de Disseny de les Illes Balears [Higher School of Design of the Balearic Islands], for this huge urban loft whose net floor area covers 200 m². The dwelling has maintained its connected, open spaces, a major trait of this kind of space, but at the same time, the architect has been able to preserve the privacy of the most intimate rooms. Thus, the space has a long and narrow shape, and on the left side we simply find a big piece of furniture that hides the kitchen, the bathroom and the stairs leading to the upper floor. Its design has taken into account the effects of natural light and the high-quality materials from Porcelanosa: manual mud from L´Antic Colonial (Foro, Krabi, Samara and Mylos, from the Stone Series), Krion® and elements from the Libra and Arquitect series, from Noken.

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otion Is Life is a project devised by the students Bogdan Petrenko and Roman Bozhenko, from Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture in Ukraine. The solution they offer is a single space inside a mobile house, which enables integration of the exterior and interior space based on the weather conditions and the characteristics of the terrain.

The interior is designed for active and dynamic people, since it is not just accommodation, but also a place to hold parties, meetings, and so on.

The house layout does not rely on symmetry: the bathroom, one half of which is under the water, is the heart of the home, occupying its central part; the lounge is placed in the upper part, and the

kitchen, at a lower level. The functional areas are spatially combined through interior ramps, and the lighting is placed in the glazed fringe that runs along the whole contour of the building. The interior was enriched with bionic shapes of soft lines, for which Krion® combined with acrylic has been used. In sum, individuality, singularity and simplicity have been the major priorities of design here.

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COMPLETED PROJECTS: FIRST PRIZE

HONOURABLE MENTION

REHABILITATION

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THE OLD FENCING HALLS – DISARMAMENT WAREHOUSES – CARTAGENA ARSENAL

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artín Lejárraga won first prize with this beautiful rehabilitation of the old fencing halls (headquarters of the Midshipman School, 19th century), sited in three industrial quarters of the Disarmament Warehouse building (18th century). As the aim of the project was integrating the new headquarters of CESADAR (Centro de Supervisión y Análisis de Datos de la Armada: the Spanish Navy’s Data Monitoring and Analysis Centre), a clear strategy was followed: to rescue the historic building, to eliminate the successive alterations in order to recover the original geometry, and to provide for new infrastructures so that the different functions can be compatible. The structural elements have been repaired, generating unbroken spaces based on the original premises; the layout of the stairs connecting the ground floor access with the first floor sections has been recovered, and the original pavement has been enhanced through a new raised glass pavement, which has enabled the preservation and viewing of the original. In order to attain such goals, 60 x 60 cm Nature Nickel pavement, from Urabatek was used, and 60 x 60 cm STE raised technical floor, from Butech.

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milio Sánchez-Horneros Viver-Sánchez (TASH, Taller de Arquitectura Sánchez-Horneros) obtained the honourable mention for his project Casa Elena, with an X-shaped plan. A single-family residence in the Montesión (Toledo) housing development, whose plot has been used so that the property can be divided into different areas clearly distinguished by their character and function: an access area, Italian stairs, garage entrance ramp and garden; the kitchen garden and two platforms in the front, one with the swimming pool and lawn and the other one occupied by a vegetable garden.

According to their functionality, the three wings of this house correspond to day, night, and service areas. Some of the materials used have been the Pal mixer tap, from Noken; 43.5 x 65.9 cm Silver Blue pavement, from Porcelanosa, as well as single-coat Ebony Oak, from L´Antic Colonial, and G500 and G580 kitchen furniture models, from Gamadecor.

MEDITERRANEAN LIGHT THROUGH AND THROUGH Can Mana, a spectacular private dwelling located in Can Martinet (Ibiza), opens in front to the Mediterranean Sea, while it lets itself be embraced by the nature of a pine grove on one side and spectacular views of the historical centre of the city of Ibiza on the other.

Photos: DANIEL BALDA Production: MarĂ­a sejas Balda

Seen in perspective, from the upper floor terrace or from the lounge itself, fully glazed in its southern façade, the blue of the infinity pool seems to fuse with the turquoise of the Mediterranean Sea.

WITH IMPRESSIVE VIEWS TO THE SEA, TO FORMENTERA AND TO THE OLD CENTRE OF THE CITY OF IBIZA, IT CAN BE SAID THAT THIS RESIDENCE STANDS IN AN EASILY ACCESSIBLE TERRAIN.

F TOP The lounge is framed in the upper floor of the dwelling, a fully glazed space in which the ceiling seems to fuse with the Balearic sky, and the pavement (White Microcemento 43.5 x 65.9 cm, from Porcelanosa)

extends towards the exterior terrace, in which two trees that come out through two perforations in the floor give shade in the summer.

ABOVE AND RIGHT The sofa area is separated from the kitchen and its island

by a huge piece of furniture in dark wood: it is made up on one side by the fireplace and on the other by the functional elements of the kitchen.

irmly determined to remain simple, thus is the architecture style practised by Bruno Erpicum, a creator of spaces who claims to draw inspiration from internal thought and who tackles each project as “a virtual sculpture that grows in my mind”. A working method that clearly shows in this idyllic private home named Can Mana and situated in Can Martinet, on the island of Ibiza.

With impressive views to the sea, to the island of Formentera and to the old centre of the city of Ibiza, it can be said that this residence stands in an easily accessible terrain – as put by the renowned architect, “close to the city” and “close to the harbour”.

In a plot with a total area of 3,000 m² and a floor area of 480 m², the project has been shaped around two perfectly delimited zones: according to Erpicum, “a downstairs space called Introverted, in which the bedrooms are distributed, and another one, Extroverted, on the upper floor, occupied by strictly daily functions, in which the living room is clearly open to the environs.”

As regards the downstairs floor, Bruno Erpicum explains that every room has a private garden “whose volumes reflect the size of each room, and the immediate surroundings greet us either with a good morning or a good night. At dusk, the exterior lighting enlarges the enclosed volume and contributes to the poetry of the place.” In turn, the main bedroom is completed with a terrace opened to the sea.

If we are in the hall, in the east side, as the Belgian architect clarifies, “a slanted plane invites us to take a walk through a wholly glazed volume, whose height reaches six metres. It literally penetrates into the pine grove, and the ‘space-time’ notion can be clearly noticed, each step discovering another perspective for us and leading us upwards, to the first floor.”

And there, on the top, in the lounge, if we turn our eyes 360º, we will find the pine grove on one side, the beautiful and old city of Ibiza within its walls (declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO) on the other, and the blue immensity of the Mediterranean Sea on the front.

LEFT The glazed access ramp invites us to climb up to the first floor.

FAR LEFT Each element of the dwelling is differentiated from the rest, but they all need one another.

BELOW Each room has a private garden and the main room has a terrace opened to the sea.

SUCH STABILITY IS NOT AN ACCIDENT, FOR THE THICK WALLS THAT DEFINE THE ROOMS SUPPORT THE DENSE CONCRETE SLAB WHICH FORMS THE LOUNGE AND TERRACE FLOOR, THE FAÇADE THUS NOT INTERFERING WITH THE VIEWS.

“Beyond the lounge,” he explains “the roof slab is blurred and the pavement extends to the exterior, forming the terrace.” This open-air space has two little perforations through which the branches of two trees planted in the bottom level come in, and which serve as a protection against the sun during the summer months. “Nature recovers its rights,” comments this professional who leads the Ateliers d’Achitecture Bruno Erpicum & Partenairs.

Either from this ideal terrace or from the glazed lounge itself, the blue of the infinity pool seems to fuse with the turquoise of the Mediterranean Sea. And the harbour can also be seen in the distance. “We are on an island, in a pine grove with views to the sea, to the city, to the hills, to the horizon… Can Mana mocks the size of its terrain, the magic of Ibiza is present,” Bruno Erpicum poetically clarifies. And in a more prosaic manner, he defines the building as “a glass cube flanked by slab flooring that stretches to form the terrace, the swimming pool, which gives the

finishing touch to the composition, and crowning it, is the service pavilion, wholly independent from the house. And under the terrace, the limits of the building define a frame over the sea. Two big soil bases feed the trees: a shadowy space from which the stairs that double the vertical circulation start. Each occupant, each component, enjoys total freedom; however, the building needs all of them, just as they need the building.”

But this stability is not an accident for Bruno Erpicum, since the thick walls that define the rooms support the dense concrete slab that forms the lounge and terrace flooring; thus, the façade does not interfere with the views.

In the middle of the upper floor layout, a large piece of furniture in dark wood serves as a separating panel for the different spaces, integrating on one side a bucolic fireplace, and on the other the functional elements of the kitchen.

Thus, we can distinguish the resting area from that of the kitchen with its big island, its sink and cooking area and its breakfast bar. /

MANUEL TORRES INTERIOR DESIGN The industrial and interior design studio directed by Manuel Torres has headquarters in Barcelona and Sevilla. In their offices, a great team of professionals highly qualified in a number of creative fields tackle such varied projects as housing, hotels, executive offices and even commercial spaces such as a sex shop. They can handle it all: their secret is creating quality design and offering signature projects with customized and innovative solutions.

SIGNATURE SPACES Text: Sukeina Aali-Taleb

“ALL MY PROJECTS HAVE A VERY PERSONAL SEAL, CHARACTERISED FOR THEIR TIMELESSNESS AND RATIONALITY, THE HOMOGENEISATION OF THE MATERIALS AND TEXTURES USED, AND FOR THE EXCLUSIVE DESIGN OF ALL THE ELEMENTS THAT MAKE them UP”

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anuel Torres Arquitectura Interior is one of the foremost studios in our national panorama. They accept different kinds of projects, and their success lies in tackling each new project with keen enthusiasm, without prejudices and adapting to the client’s needs. They work in a team headed by Manuel Torres, who has extensive academic preparation and professional experience. After completing his studies in Sevilla – where he graduated as Auxiliary Technician in Industrial Design and Project Technician in Building – he rounded off his training in cities like Milan and Miami, where he started his professional career as an industrial and interior designer in leading studios. Finally, he settled in Barcelona, where he founded his studio in the year 2004. It expanded in 2010, with new offices in Sevilla. Lifestyle has talked with him about his views on the world of interior decoration and architecture, his upcoming projects and quality design.

Why did you choose to open your studio in Barcelona?

When I completed my studies and experience abroad, I decided to establish my own studio in Spain, and if I chose the city of Barcelona, it was for its location and cosmopolitan character and, above all, because this city has become an important benchmark in design at a European and international level.

As you are a particularly active person who not only directs your studio, but also teaches and participates in conferences and talks, how do you see the world of interior architecture and design in Spain?

My vision is widely positive. Indeed, obviously the talent behind Spanish architecture and design

OPPOSITE PAGE Project “A Movie Lounge”, Casa Decor Barcelona.

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP Trento Selection boutique, which gave elegance, versatility and personality to the project, apart from the industrial design of the furniture, creative photography and prints; lounge of a home in Barcelona’s Eixample, with an eclectic style that combined the restoring of original elements with novel elements; Art Suite Hotel, with an urban, elegant and contemporary character; worktop area in the sex shop and the Directors floor of the Grupo Eurofred corporate building in Barcelona: 350 m² distributed in a functional and fluid way, where natural light has been maximized; and technical and decorative lighting has joined home automation.

are internationally recognised. Nowadays, my specific vision of interior design in Spain is paradoxical, for the economic situation we are experiencing is somehow specifically benefitting reliable and professional studios and rooting out those who practiced our profession with no proper qualification – a practice that heavily harmed the sector before, as they proliferated during the heady market of the real estate boom. All this points to a customer who, more than ever before, wants to make a profitable investment through the right design.

How do you tackle each new project?

Every new project that comes into the studio, we tackle it just as if it were the first one, that is to say, with the largest measure of hope and energy that you can have when it comes to facing new challenges and experiences. For me, each project is a challenge – I must reinvent myself starting from scratch. Each commission deserves a different treatment for its typology, situation or, maybe the most important, the client’s actual needs.

You have accomplished a great variety of projects, from hotels to executive offices to residential projects. Could you highlight one of them?

Perhaps the most outstanding has been our interior design project for a sex shop, which represented a big creative challenge, for we tried to escape at all times the aesthetics that usually come along with this kind of activity, in order to create a comfortable, serene and elegant atmosphere. Our conceptualisation of the project intended to break with the preconceived ideas or the taboos associated with this type of business, developing a project that would deviate from the tasteless while managing, through an elegant design, to puzzle the pedestrians drawn by the shop’s aesthetics. The greatest reward was that our client obtained a higher volume of sales, and also that we received the Award to the Best Commercial Interior in 2009 in recognition of this project.

Is there any common element for all your projects?

Actually, each project is different, just as each client is different, too. However, it is true that they all follow the same philosophy of obtaining excellent results while acting on sound logic and coherence in all creative processes. All of them have a very personal seal, characterised by timelessness and rationality, for an homogenisation of all materials and textures used and for the exclusive design of all the elements they are made up of, thus creating both functional and elegant atmospheres. If I had to define my spaces, I think I’d do it as follows: signature spaces, avant-garde spaces, elegant and timeless places.

Your studio also develops products of industrial design. Could you comment on this aspect?

From the studio we also offer companies our services as experts in design, so as to develop their products or to manage the design area inside their corporate structures. Basically, we put design at the service of industrial innovation, for we understand it as an essential factor for innovation.

What projects are you busy with today?

Today we are developing several interior design projects in the residential field and for the Contract sector. We’ve undertaken to develop a new franchise chain, a corporate office building and a professional showroom. We have also scheduled to start a new project for a luxury hotel. As regards the area of product design, we are developing lighting elements and furniture collections.

Some project that you’d like to fulfil.

I have always been powerfully drawn to the idea of creating a multifunctional space for leisure, which would allow me to make a highly theatrical, set design atmosphere, in which all materials, textures, colours and lighting could be combined as much as really possible.

How has the experience been of collaborating with Porcelanosa Group in the creation of a table made in Krion for Casa Decor Barcelona?

The experience has been fully satisfactory. In fact, now we often incorporate Krion to devise our projects.

We were also pleasantly surprised by the product’s creative possibilities and technical characteristics, also with a wide range of finishes and colours. I’d also highlight the possibility of having worked jointly with Porcelanosa Group, who has clearly proved its great technical capability in the manufacture of this element in record time, with finishes and, above all, surfaces of really high quality. /

“EACH PROJECT IS A CHALLENGE – I MUST REINVENT MYSELF AND START FROM SCRATCH. EACH COMMISSION DESERVES A DISTINCT TREATMENT FOR ITS TYPOLOGY, SITUATION OR, MAYBE THE MOST IMPORTANT, THE CLIENT’S ACTUAL NEEDS.”

Once upon a time there was a Mallorcan hotel group with 25 years of experience behind it that never stopped reinventing itself. Its latest big commitment – with materials from Porcelanosa Group and in harmony with the evolution of the new Caribbean travellers – was a five-star hotel with all modern commodities.

Text: ROSA MARQUÉS

BARCELÓ BÁVARO PALACE DELUXE

A PARADISE IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

OPPOSITE PAGE Bávaro Beach, Punta Cana, in the Dominican Republic and aerial views of the area in which the hotel Bávaro Palace Deluxe sits.

ABOVE The private 60-metre swimming pool in the Presidential Suite. An exclusive room in the Club

Premium, whose floor has been made in 60 x 60 cm Factory Corten and 60 x 10 cm Factory Corten edging, both from Porcelanosa.

In turn, the Deluxe Presidential Suite consists of a main room connected with two additional rooms, and a wonderful terrace with panoramic views to the Caribbean Sea.

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ometimes paradise is closer than we think. At only nine hours away on a direct flight from Spain across the Atlantic Ocean, you will find one of those places created by Nature – and with man’s involvement and help – for complete rest.

In the world famous East Coast of the Dominican Republic, where the development which turned this country into the number one in beaches with white and fine sand and crystal clear waters, lies Bávaro Beach, described by UNESCO as one of the best beaches in the world and protected by coral reefs (at only 800 metres off shore) that turn the sea into a calm and surfless “natural pool”. This five-star hotel, which since

ABOVE Lounge in the Casa Club (Guest Service), with 60 x 60 cm Factory Corten floor and 60 x 10 cm Factory Corten edging, from Porcelanosa; the Kyoto Japanese Restaurant & Sushi Bar, with floor in 44 x 66 cm Tissue Silver, from Venis, and covering in 31.6 x 90 cm Glass Anthracite and 31.6 x 90 cm Flower Anthracite, from Porcelanosa. Materials from Porcelanosa Group have also been used in other restaurants: the French (floor in 44 x 66 cm Tissue Gold, from Venis); the Italian (floor in 60 x 60 Crystal Floor Dark and Crystal Floor White 60 x 60 cm, from Venis); the Dominican (19 x 120 cm

Fresno, from Porcelanosa) and the Spanish one (19 x 120 cm Chestnut Casona from Porcelanosa); in the spa water and gangway area 44 x 66 cm Black Anti-slip Caucasus, from Venis has been installed.

Remarkable is the use of 44 x 66 cm Floating Black Anti-slip Caucasus, a Butech STE system, for the terraces of the steak house. Seafood, and the spa roof.

ABOVE RIGHT Interior of the hotel in whose lobby the floor 60 x 120 cm Beige Caucasus, from Venis, has been used. The 44 x 66 Beige Caucasus, from Venis, has been used in the theatre, the shopping centre, spa and international buffet.

its opening has become a must on the Coconut Coast, opened its doors as a response to the needs of the ever more demanding travellers who love the Caribbean Sea. Those who ask for more exclusivity and comfort have found in this hotel (with flawless all-inclusive service) their natural habitat. The Hotel Bávaro Palace Deluxe, on the beachfront in a resort of several hotels, the Barceló Bávaro Beach & Resort & Convention Center, has made its gastronomy and its spa two of its biggest undertakings. All accompanied by an interior design in harmony with the hotel’s exclusivity – to this end, latest-generation materials from the firm Porcelanosa have been used, which merge with and enhance the beauty of this

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LEFT Junior Suite Deluxe, in the Club Premium.

ABOVE Family Junior Suite Deluxe and the spa’s relaxation room, a space in whose Blue Spa area two saunas, three Turkish baths, an ice fountain and Vichy, contrast, Scottish, essence and bithermal showers with essential oils, from System-Pool, were installed.

landscape of white beaches hugged by coconut palms. The interior of the hotel, with each ceramic detail that we tread on, reminds us of a land of unsurpassable multicultural wealth. Hence its lobby gives life to the mixture of native Spanish and African cultures with the use of carved wood from tropical specimens and coralline stone. Around the hotel, a spectacular tropical garden invites you to breathe the full fragrance of the Caribbean Sea, whereas in its warm interior spaces, the design elements constantly refer to the green luxuriance of the country. The hotel was refurbished, mainly in its rooms and Casa Club, which measures 45,000 m2, by architect Jaume Torrens. /

The hotel chain Barceló Hotels & Resorts has boasted of one of the best hotels in the area for months: “A product 100% renewed and up to the minute in the market,” according to Jaime Buxó, who highlights the novelties of “the new B-Rooms, equipped with the latest technology” and the “new Casa Club, with an entertainment Boulevard, the actual epicentre of the hotel, in which there is a shopping centre and the U Spa, Casino, Theatre, thematic restaurants and bars.” Certainly, gastronomy has been one of its main attractions. Jaime Buxó emphasizes the great choices, for “each of the nine restaurants delivers an unmistakable gourmet experience, through which guests are conveyed to different corners of the world, from the minimalist tradition of Japanese cuisine to the exciting tastes and colours of Mexico, the sophisticated treats of French gastronomy, not forgetting the unique experiences of Spanish and Italian cuisine... and the fun and atmosphere of a steak house.” One of the favourites is the Kyoto Restaurant. If there, ask for its delicious teppanyaki.

8 BRANDS / 8 ARCHITECTS PORCELANOSA GROUP The Group’s brands are united in this atmosphere to create a unique and idyllic space with views to the sea and exclusive details.

The Outdoor Pacific V4 Spa, from SystemPool, structures all the surrounding elements, such as the Brazil Slate pavement and covering (44 x 66 cm Ston-Ker) and the Ipe Iguazú natural wood pavement 10 x 240 x 2.2 cm, from L’Antic Colonial.

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Eight highly reputed architects have chosen to share with Porcelanosa Group their approaches to the profession.

We have chosen to crystallise their thinking in eight of the best atmospheres from the latest Ceramics, Kitchen and Bath Fair 2011.

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Rafael de la-Hoz Castanys

“Architecture should embrace everything from the biggest down to the smallest – from town planning to the design of the most minimal detail, for it makes up a whole, a specific way of understanding and occupying the space, of perceiving and enjoying it.”

URBATEK The serenity of this atmosphere comes favoured by the texture and colour of the porcelain pavement in 80 x 80 cm Black Polished Tribeca that invites walking on its high-transit surface that has no enamel on it. Urbatek thus boasts of toughness, but also of an exquisite design for the most intimate corners in the home.

system-pool This brand from Porcelanosa Group has endeavoured to prove the versatility of its novel Krion® by devising this modern façade from Butech, whose irregular lines make the windows ‘dance’ and whose decorative finishes remind us of a ruler’s scale. An aspect that has been accomplished by the tact, resilience and mouldability of Krion®, an ecological and antibacterial material, extremely resistant, jointless and easy to clean and repair.

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Hembert Peñaranda

“We are immersed in the universal transformation from the 20th-century industrial city model to the information and culture cities of the 21st-century.

We are moving from production cities to cities made for exchange.

Architecture should assimilate and express this new reality.”

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Patricia Urquiola

“I believe that design is not just a label that gives quality to objects, but simply something that defines the need to study and create projects that preserve continuity with the whole of our material surroundings.”

l’antic colonial The Kathmandu Bioprot slate (40 x 80 x 1.5 cm) is the star of this space: we find it in its polished finish in the pavement and in Natural Home for the covering.

This one comes accompanied in the main wall by the Feel Wood mosaic (30 x 30 x 1 cm), a surprising and meshed material made in natural wood, different and sophisticated at once. In addition, the surprising forms of the White Future Athens bathtub (216 x 80 x 54 cm) imbue the whole space with modernity. An atmosphere completed with a Trend basin – matching the bathtub – (68 x 39 x 13 cm) on a worktop in Pampa Slate (160 x 60 x 2 cm) and a Tower Warm Walnut furniture composition in its versions 2C Chest of drawers (37 x 60 x 40 cm) and 2 P Shelf (60 x 37 x 40 cm). The wall-embedded mixer basin tap gear, from Noken, is in the Soft model, and the Irta bath/shower mixer tap is installed onto the pavement.

GAMADECOR The brand from Porcelanosa Group that specializes in kitchens introduces us to a modern and cosy atmosphere in which this essential home space would have nothing to envy of the remaining, more private, rooms. A highlight is the central island with its irregular lines, in which 90-degree angles have been dismissed and the sloping has taken possession of the central space. The drawers in the fronts of the work area are in the Nocturnal Steel G575 model and, in turn, the service area is structured around several storage columns made in the eclectic Ukola model, from Gamadecor. The composition is completed with a worktop made in Krion®, a solid and surprisingly mouldable material from System-Pool that, thanks to its antibacterial properties, is very suitable for kitchens.

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Joaquín Torres

“I understand architecture as a vital activity related to ideas and life.

The challenges of bridging the distance between science and art, between thought and feeling, render particularly patent when architecture is turned into reality.”

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Carlos Ferrater

“Beyond the issues posed to architects by the financial and economic crisis, a new scenario unfolds before us in which such concepts as using resources more wisely, environmental sustainability, scarcity of resources, the social impact of the work, and respect for the natural landscape and the city have become priorities in architectural conception and development.”

PORCELANOSA The pavement of this Porcelanosa atmosphere (43.5 x 65.9 cm Ocean Tibet Ston-Ker) provides so much character to the space that it is virtually unnecessary to add more decorative elements. The mixture of grey, ochre and brown tones makes the Ocean Tibet the perfect ally for lounges like this – serious, refined and full of personality. Moreover, the surprising texture will not go unnoticed by any guest.

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Carlos Lamela

“Architecture should become a leading discipline in this new age of respect for the environment and guiding ethics. The way to approach sustainability should be intimately linked to the place where buildings stand and to their socio-political and cultural context. Social awareness, a higher cultural level and different advertising campaigns will transform the new generations into true champions of sustainability. In a very short time, non-sustainable aspects will not even be imaginable.

Besides, architecture is a discipline to be developed in a team.

The integration of the different specialists is essential in any project.”

butech As versatile as the understanding of architecture practiced by these architects is the Krion® material, from System-Pool, with which Butech has covered the façade of this shop belonging to a well-known fashion company located in Madrid’s busy Preciados street.

Interesting is the way in which the artificial lighting forces its way out among the Krion® plates on the façade, creating a layered effect.

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luis Alonso y sergio Balaguer

“Here in Alonso & Balaguer we have always believed that ‘fashion goes out of fashion’, hence we flee from approaches typical of such fads.

Our architecture must allow flexibility for every kind of user.”

noken Achieving a sanitary atmosphere with soft but well-defined lines is really simple with the elements from the Soft series, from Noken. From the showerhead with two outlets (rain and cascade) to the movable shower jets, as well as the embedded thermostats and the backflow valves, the Soft shower composition is perfectly integrated into the wall so as to conceal its purely functional aspect and thus become a decorative element that has little or nothing to do with more traditional taps and showerheads.

venis This firm belonging to Porcelanosa Group has accustomed us to its creation of elegant spaces in which no element is out of tune from the rest and, as a whole, they all form a relaxed atmosphere in which to enjoy one’s time.

This room with an integrated bathroom is striking for its spaciousness and visual harmony, in which walls (59 x 100 cm Mykonos Nickel covering) and ceiling seem to merge creating an infinite vanishing point. The pavement (Montana Ash 19.3 x 120 cm) with a dark tonality contrasts with the freestanding Almond bathtub (Krion® Stone), from SystemPool. Both basins consist of mixer taps in the Urban model, from Noken, and Folk Linen / Sheen White furniture, from Gamadecor.

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Fran Silvestre

“Dialogue is always there, for the work becomes a part of the identity of those who inhabit it. The home or work spaces are a faithful reflection of the people who live and work in them, an unmistakable expression of their personalities or corporative cultures. This dialogue seeks comfort and also utility, examining the conflicts and joys of daily acts in human life, which define architecture as against other arts. The response given to these concepts, made with intimately subjective parameters, characterises the projects and makes each one different from the others.”

The Studio Domæn Design, headed by Chris Lowe, was responsible for refurbishing and bringing this spectacular home to life in Woodland Drive, Beverly Hills. So as to fit the existing structure – from the 50s – with contemporary details, the studio used materials from Porcelanosa Group.

On the façade of this house, located at 1060 Woodland Drive, Beverly Hills, the Ipe natural wood combines to perfection with the traditional stucco.

The floor of the grand room can be appreciated from outside the house: 60 x 60 cm grounded polished Town Nieve stoneware, from Urbatek.

beverly hills, AT THE TOP OF DESIRES Text: marta sahelices Photos: Michael McCreary

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iving and working in Hollywood draws many comparisons of our work to that of the movie industry. Our craft is an art, much like film and television. Just like how an actor gives life to a script, our job is to give a design life, and much like cinema directors, we are skilled with lighting, and colour.” This graphic depiction is by Chris Lowe, the founder of Domæn Design, the company that accomplished the interior design of this spectacular private house in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles. A spacious landscaped property of almost 2,000 m², with an interior area of some 550 m² housing four bedrooms, four bathrooms and a half bath.

Both the interior design and refurbishing of this fabulous home have introduced a modern contemporary design into an existing structure originally built in the 50s, which bore a modernist frame work and naturally lent itself to the striking expansion taken over. In this sense, the use of colours had a great influence – with it, as Chris Lowe explains, he tried to create a “stark luxury feel”. To this end, several variations

The floor of the grand room (60 x 60 cm grounded polished Town Nieve stoneware, from Urbatek) was chosen as a reflective surface to multiply the light that streams in from the outside through the large windows, as well as to visually join this space with the kitchen and the other rooms on the first floor. Materials from Porcelanosa Group have

been used to refurbish this house, such as 31.6 x 44.6 cm and 31.6 x 90 cm Steel Glass and White Glass, from Porcelanosa; 37.7 x 66.3 cm White Leather Twin, from Porcelanosa, and 30 x 30 x 1.5 cm White Mosaic Baia Stone, from L’Antic Colonial.

“THE FLOOR WAS CHOSEN AS A REFLECTIVE SURFACE TO MULTIPLY THE LIGHT THAT STREAMS IN FROM OUTSIDE AND MAKE THE GRAND ROOM VIRTUALLY SEAMLESS WITH THE KITCHEN AND OTHER ROOMS OF THE FIRST FLOOR”

of wood finishes were used to “make the house warm and offset the hard textures,” claims this creator of spaces.

On the other hand, “the floor was chosen as a reflective surface to multiply the light that is coming from the outside and make the grand room virtually seamless with the kitchen and other rooms on the first floor,” says Lowe. In addition, “it makes the light penetrate deeply into the belly of the house, so that all areas of the house are well lit during the day.”

Concerning the exterior, Ipe natural junglewood was used for the façade in contrast with the traditional stucco, “to allow the house to blend in with the hillside that it sits on.”

The dazzling grand room is Chris Lowe’s favourite place, for it “ties all the spaces in one coherent format. In order to access any part of the house you will inevitably encounter this space or pass through it. Thus this space is the core element, and everything else was designed around it. It is a large void that in essence attracts all the other functions of the house together for their primary activity.”

The rest of the house was purposely designed so that the spaces are interconnected and there is a flow from the private to the public areas, while they become distinct by way of locating all the private areas on the second floor. An organisation that is not superfluous at all, since most of the spaces were designed “with three things in mind, the client’s needs, the design’s overall consistency and budget,” comments Lowe, who thanks to the narrow relationship maintained with its owner Amir Kalantari, “whose close understanding and support for the design made it one of our most successful projects to this date.” As the interior designer recounts, “this success can be measured by the house being continually used as backdrops for movies, television productions and advertisement commercial featuring Hollywood’s A-list stars.”

It is noteworthy that all the cabinetry inside the house was designed and manufactured

by Domæn Design in their Anaheim facilities, in California, which has allowed a total

“MOST OF THE SPACES WERE DESIGNED WITH THREE THINGS IN MIND: THE CLIENT’S NEEDS, THE DESIGN’S OVERALL COHERENCE AND BUDGET”

The floor in the kitchen and the grand room is one and the same (60 x 60 cm grounded polished Town Nieve stoneware, from Urbatek) to create an optical effect by which all spaces look like a single whole and only

become distinct for their arrangement within the house. On the other hand, all kitchen furniture was designed and manufactured by Domæn Design, a studio that really cares for every small detail in their projects.

customisation and utilisation of every inch of space. A personal and special working method that defines the projects of this young studio made up of Chris Lowe and Arshia Vandod in the design area and James Afrand and Art Conriguez in the final manufacture process.

With innovative solutions and a limitless love of detail, Domæn has completed many remarkable projects that range from furniture and interior items of their own creation to signature restaurants and luxury homes in Beverly Hills and Hollywood Hills – we should not forget that in 2007, and for the second year in a row, Coldwell Banker listed Beverly Hills properties as the most expensive in the United States, with an average home price of over $2.2 million. /

“OUR CRAFT IS AN ART, MUCH LIKE FILM AND TELEVISION. JUST LIKE HOW AN ACTOR GIVES LIFE TO A SCRIPT, OUR JOB IS TO GIVE A DESIGN LIFE, AND MUCH LIKE CINEMA DIRECTORS, WE ARE SKILLED WITH LIGHTING, AND COLOUR”

BEDROOM AND DRESSING ROOM Each and every cabinetry detail, both in the bedroom and in the dressing room, have been designed and produced by Domæn Design. And the bedroom floor is 60 x 60 cm grounded polished Town Cosmos stoneware, from Urbatek.

LEFT Covering in 1.5 x 14.8 cm Mosaic Glacier Mix Metallic Tobacco, glass with a metallic effect, from L’Antic Colonial. Tap gear: Square, from Noken.

FAR LEFT Covering in 33.3 x 59.2 cm White Line, from Venis, and 5 x 5 cm Black Lined Mosaic Imax, from L’Antic Colonial and Nora mixer tap, from Noken.

BELOW 31 x 90 cm Glass Anthracite covering, from Porcelanosa

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The spectacular power of this geyser proves the potential energy of the Earth that Geotermia, from Butech, has been able to tap.

SPECIAL REPORT

GEOTHERMICS AN ENERGY SOURCE Geothermics, a system through which the heat stored deep within the Earth’s crust is extracted, has been developed by Butech, a company belonging to Porcelanosa Group: a high-efficiency energy alternative to conventional heating and cooling systems.

impact, and can be adapted to the new building requirements.

The soil is an inexhaustible source of heat, and geothermic energy is a renewable energy source stored under the Earth’s surface in the form of heat. Unlike other renewable energies, such as sun or wind, geothermic energy harnesses the

The geothermal system has no visual impact, for it is buried under the ground. On the other hand, the energy savings are substantial and, consequently, it is a cheaper energy source (moreover, it is subsidized by Spain’s different autonomous communities).

Photo: Getty.

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eothermics is no longer a fantasy but a reality that, owing to its many advantages, will undergo substantial advances in the coming years. A source of heat with no supply variations, it does not release emissions into the environment, has an extremely low rate of energy consumption and no visual

Earth’s heat. Starting from a certain depth, the temperature of the soil remains unchanged all year round, which enables a secure supply of calories to the home in the form of hot water or heating, affording well-being and comfort to interior spaces: a revolutionary form of sustainable energy use.

Geothermics is based on extracting the heat stored under the ground. As we go deeper into the Earth’s crust, the temperature goes higher, and starting from ten metres deep, it remains unchanged all year round and invariably the same day and night. This energy contained under the ground is harnessed through underground pipes that go to a geothermal heat pump. As explained by César Morales, responsible for the Geothermics Product, “geothermics consists of HVAC (heating, cooling, hot water, swimming pools…) through a geothermal heat pump that produces exchanges with the subsoil’s constant temperature, and not with the exterior, thereby allowing for more savings than a conventional heat pump”. Apart from saving energy, one of the major advantages of this kind of energy is precisely its economic savings from the

In Butech, the Geothermics working method starts with a detailed study of the project. Next come the drillings, soil displacements and pipe installation that allow implementing the geothermal system.

very moment in which this system comes into operation and throughout its life cycle. “In addition, it is subsidized in 40 per cent by all our different autonomous communities. The Government itself encourages (through said subsidies) replacing conventional pumps for geothermal heat pumps,” César Morales adds.

On the other hand, geothermal energy is the heat energy that the Earth transfers from its internal layers towards the outer part of the Earth’s crust. Only a part of this heat can be tapped by man given certain technical and economic conditions. Thus, geothermics intends to develop that heat energy from deep in the Earth.

Based on temperature, its uses and applications may vary. For instance, if the temperatures are below 25°C, the usage possibilities are air conditioning and hot water for use in the home. It is an ideal system to be installed in buildings or in single-family dwellings, since, although the initial investment is higher than that of a conventional system, its maintenance and operation costs are really low, which makes for especially attractive amortization periods.

In line with the growing demand of sustainable

energies in contemporary society, Butech has committed to Geothermics and conducts installations of this kind of system. From a practical viewpoint, the working method starts with a detailed study of the project. Next come drillings, soil displacements and pipe installation to implement the geothermal system. Once its correct operation has been verified and monitored, the maintenance of the system is very simple. It is limited to electronic components, so that the wear and tear of all other materials is very low as compared with other systems.

Geotermia, from Butech, becomes in this way the first company in the sector that after years of research is committed to this energy source in order to provide the HVAC industry with the best technology – a technology geared towards sustainable energies, consumption savings and optimisation in system maintenance.

The projects conducted by Butech concerning Geotermia are already underway and we will very soon see that the exploitation of the heat coming from under the Earth’s surface will be more familiar and absolutely accessible, as well as convenient from an economic viewpoint. /

Deborah Berke AVANT-GARDE AND DESIGN The architecture studio managed by Deborah Berke in Manhattan enjoys recognition for its wide range of projects. Hotels, art galleries, commercial buildings and even sophisticated homes in New York’s SoHo: all of Berke’s work outstands for her distinct and special care of details, her elegance and her balanced shapes.

Text: Sukeina Aali-Taleb

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eborah Berke is not new to designing interiors with a personality and character of their own, as her studio has been around since the 80s, now with a team of over 32 professionals – including architects, designers and technical and administrative staff.

They all work under Berke’s orders in a perfect atmosphere of collaboration characterised by a transparent flow of information. Her projects can be seen in the United States, as well as in the Caribbean, Europe and Asia. Berke doesn’t reject a project that may be placed at the avant-garde of design, and although her beginnings were not easy, today her work is widely recognised and her studio, one of the most reputed in New York City.

In the 70s, the American architect combined

WHEN EMBARKING ON A PROJECT, THE ARCHITECT ALWAYS TAKES INTO ACCOUNT WHAT HER CUSTOMERS WILL USE IT FOR, AND THE TIME AND PLACE COORDINATES, WHICH BERKE CALLS “HERE AND NOW”

OPPOSITE PAGE The 21c Museum Hotel Louisville (Kentucky) exhibits works on its walls by internationally renowned masters along with others by emerging artists.

her studies in architecture with a part-time job as a model. That allowed her to pay for her university fees so that one day she could reach her objective – namely, to become a renowned architect. She soon started to work in the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, where she met important architects, like Peter Eisenman and Kenneth Frampton. It was in 1982 when she signed her first work, a building in Florida – although the money, in this case, did not match her efforts. Later on, at the beginning of the 90s, and having connections with people from the worlds of photography and fashion, Berke designed the apartment of the famous Creative Director Fabien Baron, who was so happy with her results that he recommended her to design Calvin Klein shops

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all over the world. Throughout her career, Berke has created many residential and commercial projects, in which she always leaves her personal seal, characterised by an elegant and distinguished touch.

Among her most outstanding projects are the studio of famous photographer Annie Leibovitz and the home of Caroline Kennedy and Ed Schlossberg. Some years ago she also designed the first venue of Marianne Boesky gallery, in Chelsea. Following these lines, she has recently finished the 21c Museum Hotel.

Inside its walls, modern rooms and a surprising gallery of contemporary art, as it is the first North American museum to be devoted to 21st-century works of art – there are works by internationally renowned artists along

CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT TOP Burton Snowboards clothes and accessories shop, in Vermont (New York City); by a canal in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida; the private home of Sospiro Canal House; an interior in Jay Street Building & Atelier; Easthampton House and Nightclub at the James Hotel, in Chicago.

OPPOSITE PAGE Outside of 48 Bond Street (New York City).

with others by artists who are just starting to make a name for themselves. The elegant and innovative design of the hotel explains why it is number one in the ranking of best US hotels as voted by Traveler magazine, published by Condé Nast. The New York Times has described it as “an innovative concept with strong execution and prompt and enthusiastic service”.

Nowadays, Deborah Berke is involved in the design of a building in New York’s NoHo. She also teaches architecture at Yale University.

The architect dares with it all, and takes each project on as a new challenge. Among the most original projects created by her studio was a loft in SoHo – its owner, a graphic artist, asked for all furniture to have wheels. Berke accepted, and even designed a wheeled kitchen table. /

> proJects “la Térmica” ResidenTial

In harmony with the sea

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So that the buildings were environmentally sustainable and with minimal energy expense, the Grupo Oliveros chose materials like rustproof steel and ceramics: ventilated façade from Porcelanosa (37.3 x 65.9 cm Ant Texture Durango Sand and 37.3 x 65.9 cm Ant Texture Durango Stone). Coverings and pavements from Venis were also used for the bathrooms and kitchens of the second phase: 33.3 x 66.6 cm Yemen; 33.3 x 33.3 cm Samara; 33.3 x 66.6 cm Cream Sarriá; 33.3 x 20 cm Cream Sarriá Mosaic; 33.3 x 33.3 cm Cream Sants; 20 x 33.3 cm White Ossidi; 20 x 33.3 cm Black Tartar Ossidi and 33.3 x 33.3 cm White Foundry.

he residential development Oliveros-La Térmica, belonging to Grupo Oliveros, a project developed by architect Antonio Góngora, consists of four detached buildings surrounded by 13,000 m² of common areas in which gardens, sports areas, play spaces for children and swimming pools are combined. In order to develop it in the plots of land on the site of Almería’s old steam power plant, several challenges had to be overcome. On the one hand, the buildable area had to be integrated into the environs, allowing for cleared views and spaces and optimal natural light and ventilation for all the dwellings, and guaranteeing that they all have views to the sea. To this effect, the architect designed façades of layered planes with corner windows. Thus, the residential development overlooks the sea like “a ship castle anchored in a space that was carefully built after transforming an industrial area into a place with land and sea gardens integrated into the habitable spaces,” according to Góngora. On the other hand, the aim was to attain environmentally sustainable buildings, with minimal energy expense in a hostile environment such as the sea front. This is why materials like rustproof steel and ceramic tiles were chosen. And it was here that Porcelanosa offered the solution of the cavity-wall façade, with an air layer between the building and its ceramic skin that is in motion during the summer so as to cool the building, and that remains stable during the winter. A new concept of town planning that has garnered for this residential project the Town Planning and Real Estate Development Prize awarded by Almería’s Real Estate Fair (SIAL), for it fosters quality architecture and town planning that are sustainable and innovative in the province of Almería. /

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1London – and its Museum of Natural History – captures the traveller’s attention with its updated intellectuality.

2 Vannes, in Brittany, welcomes travellers with exceptional gastronomy and plenty of historical views.

3 The Caribbean archipelago Turks & Caicos is surprising for its infinite beaches, seabeds and dream resorts.

3 LIFESTYLE DESTINATIONS

THE BEST

CHOICE Lifestyle, of Porcelanosa Group, wants to reveal to you three destinations that are special in many ways: London for its endless magic and British heart, Vannes for its culture of gastronomy and well-being, and the archipelago of Turks & Caicos for its Caribbean views and Eastern spirit.

Photos: DAVID RALITA / aci / D.R.

Abba Queen’s Gate London LONDON / UNITED KINGDOM

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ramed inside a Victorian and recently refurbished building using modern and functional elements, the Hotel Abba Queen’s Gate London is located in Royal Borough, in the Central London borough of South Kensington, just a few metres away from Hyde Park, the Royal Albert Hall, the Museum of Natural History and the exclusive shopping area of Knightsbridge and High Street Kensington. With 90 rooms, it also has meeting halls, a bar and a gym.

The common areas in this Victorian property have decorative elements that, although some of them are rather minimalist, they all offer a modern and contemporary appearance, without forgetting the comfort expected from an establishment of this category. Black and white are the tones prevailing both in floors and in coverings, and in furniture and lamps, too.

The interior design has a modern and also ergonomic style, and the rooms are fitted with all state-of-the-art trends in technology, including Wi-Fi. Small details are also important in this London hotel: fun are the room number plates, evoking the city’s typical bowler hat, and the roses and orchids that

For the floors at the hotel entrance and common areas, 60 x 60 cm polished Town Cosmos tile, from Urbatek, has been used.

RIGHT The common areas of the hotel have been decorated in fairly neutral tonalities, black and white; and 60 x 60 cm polished Town Cosmos, from Urbatek, can be seen in the bar floor.

BELOW Bar; a door number plate and one of the hotel’s bathrooms, fitted with materials from Noken and Krion washbasins, from System-Pool.

Photos : © Britainonview / Joanna Henderson.

Photo: © Anne Marie Briscombe.

receive the guest with their fragrances and candid and friendly appearance.

In turn, the bar is the ideal place to regain one’s strength after a long day visiting and shopping in the city of the Thames.

Inside this bar, you can have from a snack to one of the rich international beers included in the select drink list to a wide selection of Spanish tapas.

The halls for events, meetings and conventions pursue excellence in their functions and are perfect for their strategically central situation in such a big and sprawling city like London.

RIGHT The hotel rooms are comfortable and are equipped with the functionality needed so that your stay is perfect.

WHAT TO DO IN LONDON Answering this question in this space is virtually impossible, but the best thing might be to begin your day with a walk in Hyde Park and its beautiful rose garden; next, a visit to the Museum of Natural History (www.nhm. ac.uk) to discover its wonderful exhibitions. A snack at Tom’s Kitchen and a coffee at Tomtom’s terrace in Chelsea, then off to finish the afternoon in any of the wonderful parks and gardens of this district.

RIGHT In the entrance and common parts of the spa, floor and covering from Venis have been applied: 59.6 x 59.6 cm Blueker and 21.3 x 54.8 cm 3D Blueker.

FAR RIGHT Outdoor spa to enjoy fine weather during the warm months: zenith spa hydra, from System-Pool.

BELOW, CLOCKWISE Hammam, from System-Pool, cascade swimming pool and underwater music; treatment cabin and ice fountain, from System-Pool.

L’Odyssée Spa - Bien-Être VANNES / FRANCE

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Photos: ACI, 4Corners/Fototeca 9X12.

ith an area of 600 m² fully devoted to relaxation and comfort, L’Odyssée Spa - Bien Être introduces itself as a refined spa with quality services in which you can combine any kind of treatment, from beauty routines to Eastern or Japanese rituals, among others. It has an outstanding 10 x 5 m swimming pool with cascade, massage jets and underwater music. Ideal for aquagym, here aquatonic, aquadouce, aquajogging and aquaboxing are also offered at different times of the day. A sauna, hammam, spa-therapy area, experience shower, flotarium and fitness hall complete the indoor spa circuit. The outdoor spa is perfect for fine weather days, when the temperature in Brittany grants a respite during the warm months. On the other hand, the centre also has a beauty and hairdressing salon for complete and total care of your looks, and a tea room to bring to a close any of its exhaustive treatments with total serenity: like World’s Rituals, an endless list of practices gathered from every corner of the world to satisfy the client’s needs – Japanese, Indian, African, Mexican, Indo- Chinese, etc., that invite you to escape in body and soul (from E30). The beauty firm Payot collaborates with the spa, contributing its facial and body rituals from the firm’s emblematic products.

RIGHT By the indoor swimming pool, 37.3 x 65.9 cm anti-slip Ston-Ker Osaka Anthracite, from Porcelanosa, has been used. In the spa, optical fibre and steam shower doors from System-Pool have been installed.

WHAT TO DO IN VANNES This beautiful town in the French region of Brittany is so likeable for travellers due to its historical past: construction began on Saint Peter’s Cathedral and Gaillard Castle in the 15th century and its Wall is 1,500 years old. Visit its quaint 16th-century houses with wood latticework and then enjoy a delicious crêpe in any of its cute crêperies. Finish off the visit at The Prison Door and Saint Paterno’s Church.

Amanyara Resort

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mong tropical vegetation and lagoons, Amanyara Resort, with its villas and pavilions, offers a contemporary atmosphere masterly integrated into their Caribbean environments. Not in vain its premises are perched on a rocky cliff on Providenciales Island and a few metres away from the boundless fine-sand Malcolm Beach. For this paradise under the guise of a luxury resort is in Turks & Caicos, a Caribbean archipelago, formally a British overseas territory. This holiday place took its name from the Sanskrit term Aman, which means “peace”, and Yara, meaning “place” in the language of the Arawak Amerindians – amongst the first native dwellers of the region.

RIGHT The central pool of Amanyara resort Turks & Caicos does not only reflect the pavilions and tropical vegetation surrounding it, but also the peace and quiet exuded by this luxury complex.

ABOVE Infinite edge swimming pool at dusk. The resort’s overflow swimming pools have 60 x 60 cm Avenue Black Texture, from Urbatek.

The Amanyara pavilions are divided into several types: next to some tranquil ponds and facing the sea, the exclusive 115 pavilion (also with sea views, but additionally with direct access to a sandy cove) and the pavilion with a 12-metre infinity edge swimming pool, surrounded by teakwood terraces and natural vegetation.

On the other hand, you can purchase or hire one of the seafront Amanyara villas, as well as one by the lake or amidst the tropical vegetation. With an area of over half a hectare, they may have three, four or five bedrooms, and surround a large rectangular swimming pool. Some have separate one-bedroom pavilions and outdoor baths and showers, but all have a lounge and dining room, an outdoor dining room and a fully equipped kitchen. There is chef and butler service to cater for the guests’ needs.

The resort restaurant offers Mediterranean and Asian cuisine and is divided into two – a heated indoor area and a second one opened to the sea breezes, both with views to the sea. And its Beach Club offers casual dining all day long. Amanyara has a gym, a library, tennis courts and a spa with views to a pond as well as Serenity Villa, made up of four double treatment pavilions and a reception and relax pavilion, which offers a huge variety of massages, wraps, exfoliations, facials and beauty treatments. It also has an outdoor space for yoga. /

RIGHT Amanyara Bar, a circular structure with a very high ceiling under which you can enjoy cocktails, exotic fruit shakes and snacks while waiting for the sunset.

FAR RIGHT A large majority of villas and pavilions have ocean views.

CLOCKWISE, FROM LEFT Double treatment room in Serenity Villa; pavilion with views to the ocean and bathroom in one of the pavilions, divided from the bedroom by wood lattice.

WHAT TO DO IN TURKS & CAICOS On Providenciales Island, people usually enjoy scuba diving along the seabeds and relaxing with outdoor yoga lessons.

Treat yourself with a delicious and painstakingly prepared intimate supper on the beach.

> PROJECTS Hi Panda

A “real” space 100% of Krion and another, “virtual”, space on the other side of the mirror

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Photos: Sebastien Veronese.

fter the great success attained in Asia, with almost 50 shops scattered throughout China and Japan, Hi Panda has finally decided to expand to Europe and, as it’s only natural, has gone for the beautiful city of Paris. A shopping space located in one of the trendiest areas of the capital by the River Seine, in 15 Place du Marché Saint-Honoré, in the 1st Arrondissement, just next door to Marc by Marc Jacobs. Unrivalled Ora-Ïto has been entrusted with designing the shop using a “self-morphed” architecture that embodies to perfection the brand’s ultra-contemporary spirit. This has been so

An iconoclastic artist, Ora-Ïto has been the one in charge of designing the shop Hi Panda in Paris with his habitual and surprising architecture: the result, a ‘real’ space, created 100% with Krion® and another virtual element which is actually a reflection on a wall mirror.

thanks to the extraordinary versatility of Krion®, the state-of-the-art solid surface from Porcelanosa Group: made up of natural minerals and a low percentage of resins, ecologic and antibacterial, it is porefree and with no joints.

Krion® has satisfied all design requirements with its malleability: Ora-Ïto used it to compose a monochromatic capsule that, joined to a mirror wall, achieves a constant visual game between “the real and the virtual”. The iconic Hi Panda logo is represented by way of half a gigantic sculpture which, when reflected on the mirror in perfect symmetry, becomes “a whole”. The designer has really managed to convey in this space the very essence of the brand’s identity, aided by the extreme cleanliness of the architectural lines achieved by Krion®, as well as by the graphic universe of Hi Panda itself and its clothes, toys, accessories, paintings, sculptures and limited editions by Jiji, the founder of the brand.. /

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T: 981 279 431 BETANZOS - SUMINISTROS VIA-MAR Avenida Fraga Iribarne, s/n.

T: 981 772 190 FERROL - NEIRA & ORTEGAL S.L. Carretera Catabois, 258.

T: 981 326 532 - F: 981 324 951 ORTIGUEIRA - NEIRA & ORTEGAL S.L. Carretera C-642 s/n, Cuiña.

T: 981 400 880 - F: 981 400 883 SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA PORCELANOSA General Pardiñas, 13-Bajo.

T: 981 569 230 SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA JOSÉ OTERO Alto del Montouto. Carretera de la Estrada, km 3.

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T: 981 530 900 - F: 981 530 901 ÁLAVA VITORIA-GASTEIZ - JORGE FERNÁNDEZ ARABA Los Herrán, 30.

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T: 945 244 250 - F: 945 247 877 ALBACETE ALBACETE - PORCELANOSA Polígono Campollano, calle B, no 3.

T: 967 243 658 - F: 967 193 465 VILLAROBLEDO - OLIVARES MATERIALES DE CONSTRUCCIÓN Avda. Reyes Católicos, 168.

T: 967 138 105 - F: 967 138 023 ALICANTE ALICANTE - PORCELANOSA Pol. Las Atalayas, Parcela VI. Calle del Franco.

T: 965 109 561 - F: 965 106 965 ALCOY - PORCELANOSA Ctra. de Valencia, Esq/ Tirant lo Blanc, 27.

T: 965 333 758 - F: 965 333 767 ALTEA - MATERIALS CONSTRUCCIÓ ROCA Avda. de la Nucia,17.

T: 965 841 507 BENISSA - HIJOS DE JUAN RIBES Avda. de la Estación, 2.

T: 965 730 419 CALPE - HIJOS JUAN RIBES Avenida Ejércitos Españoles, Edificio Apolo VII, Local 10.

T: 965 839 105 DENIA - LLACER INSTALACIONES Y SERVICIOS Pedreguer 10-12.

T: 965 781 635 - F: 965 789 821 ELCHE - PORCELANOSA Avda. Alicante, 105 T: 966 610 676 - F: 966 610 700 JAVEA - AZULEJOS JAVEA C/Liverpool, 4.

T: 965 791 036 LA NUCIA - ELDECO FLORENCIO CABALLERO Carretera Benidorm-La Nucia, km 9.

(Complejo Trópico).

T: 966 874 360 SAN JUAN - PORCELANOSA Carretera Valencia, km 88.

T: 965 656 200 - F: 965 655 644 TORREVIEJA - PORCELANOSA Avda. Cortes Valencianas, 58 Esq. Crucero Baleares.

T: 966 708 445 - F: 965 718 722 ALMERÍA ALMERÍA - PORCELANOSA Avenida Mediterráneo, 2º tramo.

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T: 950 483 285 - F: 950 486 500 VICAR - PORCELANOSA Centro Comercial Viapark, Parcela 1.

T: 950 325 575 - F: 950 338 651 ASTURIAS OVIEDO- PORCELANOSA Pol.Espíritu Santo C/ Dinamarca s/n.

T: 987 801 570 - F: 987 801 475 AVILÉS - GARCÍA MILLÁN Gutiérrez Herrero, 11.

T: 985 549 744 - F: 985 544 543 OVIEDO - GARCÍA MILLÁN Cerdeño, s/n.

T: 985 113 696 - F: 985 110 279 ÁVILA ÁVILA - PAVIMARSA Pol. industrial Vicolozano - Parcela 2.

T: 920 259 820 - F: 920 259 821 BADAJOZ MÉRIDA - PORCELANOSA Avenida Princesa Sofía, 2.

T: 924 330 218 - F: 924 330 315 BADAJOZ - GALLERY CERAMIC Carretera N-V Madrid-Lisboa, km 399.

T: 924 229 144 - F: 924 229 143 BARCELONA L’HOSPITALET DE LLOBREGAT PORCELANOSA Ciències, 65. Gran Vía L’Hospitalet.

T: 932 642 500 - F: 932 007 036 CALAF - PLANELL Ctra. Manresa Km 31 .

T: 938 698 750 - F: 938 600 181 CANOVELLES - COMERCIAL MAESTRO CANET Pol. Can Castells, nau 7-8.

T: 938 466 568 - F: 938 409 216 MANRESA - PRAT MATERIALS I MAQUINARIA C/ Mossen Jacint Verdaguer, 26.

T: 938 741 903 - F: 938 741 903 NAVAS - PRAT MATERIALS I MAQUINARIA C/ De Mujar, 52.

T: 938 204 033 - F: 938 204 098 PINEDA DE MAR - AMARGANT PINEDA Santiago Rusiñol, 96.

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T: 936 545 952 - F: 938 400 620 ST. FRUITOS DE BAGÉS - CASANOVA Ctra. De Manresa a Berga Km 1.

Naus 2-7.

T: 938 770 625- F: 938 776 530 ST. PERE DE RIBES - SUMCO Ctra. De Barcelona C-246 Km 42,4.

T: 938 933 016 - F: 938 741 066 SANT POL - AMARGANT SANT POL Passeig Parc,1.

T: 937 600 112 - F: 937 600 411 TARRADELL - JODUL Ctra. de Vic, Km 5,8.

T: 938 800 800 - F: 938 126 054 TERRASA - CASANOVA Avda Can Jofresa, nau 4-5. Cant Ptge.

Marie Curie T: 902 934 094 - F: 902 934 099 TORELLÓ - JOAN DOT C/ Ter, 50.

T: 938 504 646 - F: 938 504 286 VILANOVA DEL CAMI - PLANELL Ctra. Vilafranca 108-111.

T: 938 060 240 - F: 938 060 239 VILLAFRANCA - SUMCO Pol. Ind. Domenys II. Avda. Tarragona 136.

T: 938 933 066 - F: 938 936 004 BURGOS MEDINA DE POMAR - CERÁMICA DE LAS MERINDADES Avda. Bilbao, 11.

T: 947 192 081 - F: 947 192 082

MIRANDA DE EBRO - LA BUREBA Camino Fuente Basilio, s/n.

T: 947 323 351 - F: 947 314 589 BURGOS - BIGMAT FONTECHA Alcalde Martín Cobos, 15. Nave 5 y 6.

T: 947 483 902 - F: 947 483 941 CÁCERES CÁCERES - PORCELANOSA Avda. Juan Pablo II, 130.

T: 927 236 337 - F: 927 236 205 MORALEJA - BIGMAT CAYUELA Avda. Extremadura, 26.

T: 927 515 198 - F: 927 147 266 PLASENCIA - ALICATADORES ROMU S.A. Avda. del Valle, 59.

T: 927 426 493 - F: 927 426 495 CÁDIZ EL PUERTO DE SANTA MARÍA PORCELANOSA Pol. El Palmar. Carretera Madrid-Cádiz, km 653,2 .

T: 956 540 083 - F: 956 540 083 ALGECIRAS - PORCELANOSA Ctra. de Málaga, km 109.

T: 956 635 282 - F: 956 635 285 CÁDIZ - PORCELANOSA Avda. José León de Carranza, esq. Plaza Jerez.

T: 956 205 622 - F: 956 266 362 CHICLANA - GRAVIGRES S.L. Pol. Ind. Urbisur. C/ Severo Ochoa, 57.

T: 956 400 108 - F: 956 400 650 JEREZ DE LA FRONTERA PORCELANOSA Carretera N-IV. Parque Empresarial, parcela D1.

T: 956 187 160 - F: 956 302 904 OLVERA - ALMECOR C/ Llana, 47.

T: 956 120 776 - F: 956 120 776 SAN FERNANDO - PORCELANOSA Polígono Tres Caminos, s/n.

T: 956 592 360 - F: 956 592 833 UBRIQUE - DOCURRI C/ Fernando Quiñones, 1.

T: 956 461 838 - F: 956 460 384 VILLAMARTIN - AZULGRIF C/ Rosario, 9.

T: 956 730 687 - F: 956 730 911 CANTABRIA SANTANDER - PORCELANOSA Avenida Parayas, s/n.

T: 942 352 510 - F: 942 352 638 TORRELAVEGA - PORCELANOSA Boulevard Demetrio Herrero, 1.

T: 942 835 026 - F: 942 881 787 CASTELLÓN CASTELLÓN DE LA PLANA PORCELANOSA Asensi, 9.

T: 964 239 162 - F: 964 238 930 VILLARREAL - PORCELANOSA Carretera Villarreal-Onda, km 3.

T: 964 506 800 - F: 964 525 418 VINAROZ - PORCELANOSA

Carretera N-340, km 1.050,1.

T: 964 400 944 - F: 964 400 650 CEUTA CEUTA - BAEZA. Ampliación muelle de Poniente, 96.

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T: 926 251 730 - F: 926 255 741 ALCAZAR DE SAN JUAN PORCELANOSA Corredera, 56.

T: 926 546 727 - F: 926 546 727 TOMELLOSO - PORCELANOSA Avda. de los industriales, parcela 9.

T: 926 259 206 - F: 926 529 207 CÓRDOBA CÓRDOBA - PORCELANOSA Ctra. Nacional IV Km 404.

Pol. de Torrecilla.

T: 957 760 024 - F: 957 760 123 CASTRO DEL RIO - JOSE SÁNCHEZ CARRETERO Ronda Vieja Salud, 68.

T: 957 372 775 - F: 957 372 775 LUCENA - FRAPECO DECO S.L. Ejido Plaza de Toros.

T: 957 509 334 POZOBLANCO - ACAIÑAS CABRERA Ctra. pozoblanco-Alcaracejos Km 3,3.

T: 957 772 999- F: 957 131 170 VILLA DEL RIO - JUAN PRIETO E HIJOS S.L. Ctra. Bujalance, s/n T: 957 177 693 - F: 957 177 335 CUENCA CUENCA - PORCELANOSA Hermanos Becerril, 6 bajo.

T: 969 233 200 - F: 969 234 475 CASAS DE HARO - MAT. CONST. MARTÍNEZ ORTEGA C/ Dos de Mayo, 28.

T: 969 380 708 - F: 969 380 708 TARANCÓN - VICENTE DE LOS RIOS S.A. Ctra. Madrid-Valencia, 81.

T: 969 321 323 - F: 969 321 334 VILLANUEVA DE LA JARA ALMACENES PAÑOS S.L. Camino de Rubielos, 8.

T: 967 498 000 - F: 967 498 000 GIRONA BLANES - BRECOR SL Ctra.Tordera,79. Blanes.

T: 972 336 062 - F: 972 358 482 CORNELLA DEL TERRI - OLIVERAS Ctra. De Girona a Banyoles Km 12,8.

T: 972 594 131 - F: 972 594 552 ESCLANYÀ-BEGUR - MATERIALES CREIXELL C/Palafrugel Regencos P.I. Riera Esclanya, 1.

T: 972 300 628 - F: 972 610 772 FIGUERES - OLIVERAS

Ctra. N-II Km 759.

T: 972 672 259 - F: 972 672 255 LES PRESSES - OLIVERAS Pol. Ind. Les Presses. Parcel.la 20.

T: 972 694 704 - F: 972 693 003 PALOL D’ONYAR-QUART - OLIVERAS Ctra. Comarcal C-250 Km 4,3.

T: 972 468 119 - F: 972 468 123 GRANADA ARMILLA - TECMACER Avenida San Rafael. (Junto Sprinter).

T: 958 253 081 - F: 958 183 367 GUIPÚZCOA SAN SEBASTIÁN - JORGE FERNÁNDEZ GUIPUZKOA Polígono Belartza. Fernando Múgika, 15.

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T: 974 471 439 - F: 974 471 439 HUESCA - PORCELANOSA Pol. Sepes. C/ Ronda la Industria 1-3 nave C. T: 974 242 738 - F: 974 242 676 ILLES BALEARS PALMA DE MALLORCA PORCELANOSA Gran Vía Asima, 21 Pol. Son Castelló.

T: 971 430 667 - F: 971 297 094 INCA (MALLORCA)- PORCELANOSA C/Pagesos s/n. Pol. Inca.

T: 971 507 650 - F: 971 507 656 LLUCMAJOR (MALLORCA) MAGATZEM SES FORQUES C/ Doctor Fleming, 10.

T: 971 662 114 - F: 971 662 816 SOLLER- C’AN SOLER c/ del Mar,193.

T: 971 630 219 MANACOR- GALMES c/ Via Palma.

T: 971 554 502 CALA D’OR- MACODOR Ctra. Calonge-Cala D’or.

T: 971 658 210 ANDRAITX - TUCASA C/ Habana.

T: 971 113 476 SANT ANTONI DE PORTMANY (IBIZA)- PORCELANOSA Pol. Monte Cristo, s/n. Ctra. Ibiza.

T: 971 317 292 - F: 971 317 293 JAÉN JAÉN - PORCELANOSA Polígono Olivares. Carretera BailénMotril, km 323.

T: 953 280 757 - F: 953 284 035 ALCALÁ LA REAL - PAVIMENTOS

AZUGRISA Pog. Ind. Fte. Granada. Vial II. T: 953 582 963 CAMPILLOS DE ARENAS - HNOS. MESA QUESADA Ctra. Casablanca, s/n.

T: 953 309 523 HUELMA - VIFERSAN S.L. C/ Virgen de la Fuensanta, 61.

T: 953 391 413 LINARES - HERNÁNDEZ GÁMEZ S.L. Ctra. Torreblascopedro, s/n.

T: 953 693 423 - F: 953 693 444 ÚBEDA - HERNANDEZ GAMEZ Avenida de la libertad, 88.

T: 953 795 168 - F: 953 795 168 VILLACARRILLO - MAT. CONST. Y SAN. HIJOS MARTÍN SÁNCHEZ C/ José Rodero Mataran, 53.

T: 953 454 167 LA RIOJA LOGROÑO - RIOJACER Avenida de Burgos, 43.

T: 941 286 021 - F: 941 202 271 LAS PALMAS LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA PORC. Y PAV. CANARIOS Avenida Mesa y López, 63.

T: 928 472 949 - F: 928 472 944 LEÓN SAN ANDRÉS DE RABANEDO PORCELANOSA Ctra León-Astorga, km 3,5.

San Andrés de Rabanedo.

T: 987 801 570 - F: 987 801 475 LLEIDA EL PONT DE SUERT PRETENSADOS RIBERA Ctra. N-230 Km 124,5.

T: 973 690 063 - F: 973 690 400 LA SEU D’URGEL MATERIALS PIRINEU Ctra. de Lleida, 28.

T: 973 351 850 - F: 973 353 410 LLEIDA - PUJOL ELEMENTS Ctra. Tarragona Km 40.

T: 973 202 350 - F: 973 203 113 GOLMES - ARCIAR Avda Mediterranea, 40-44 Pol. Golparc T: 973 601 589 - F: 973 711 448 VIELHA - COMERCIAL RIBERA Ctra. França, 40 (Mig Aran).

T: 973 641 460 - F: 973 642 271 LUGO FOZ - ALMACENES BAHÍA Maestro Legilde, 6.

T: 982 140 957 LUGO - ARIAS NADELA Tolda de Castilla, s/n.

T: 982 245 725 XOVE - ESTABLECIMIENTOS REY,S.L. Avda. Diputación, 88 T: 982 592 006 - F:982 592 071 MADRID LEGANÉS - PORCELANOSA Avda. Recomba, 13.

Pol. la Laguna Salida 53 - M50.

T: 914 819 200 - F: 916 930 292 ALCOBENDAS - PORCELANOSA Parque Río Norte.

T: 916 623 232 - F: 916 624 607 ALCORCÓN - PORCELANOSA Ctra. N-V, km 15,5.

Parque Oeste de Alcorcón.

T: 916 890 172 - F: 916 890 170 MADRID - PORCELANOSA Ortega y Gasset, 62.

Esquina Conde Peñalver.

T: 914 448 460 - F: 914 025 111 MADRID - PORCELANOSA Alcalá, 514.

T: 917 545 161 - F: 917 545 555 MÁLAGA MÁLAGA - PORCELANOSA Avda. Velázquez, 77.

T: 952 241 375 - F: 952 240 092 ANTEQUERA - PORCELANOSA Río de la Villa, 3. Pol. Industrial.

T: 952 701 819 - F: 952 843 751 MARBELLA - PORCELANOSA Avda. Ricardo Soriano, 65.

T: 952 826 868 - F: 952 822 880 MELILLA MELILLA - MELIRIF S.L. Paseo Marítimo Mir Berlanga, 23.

Edificio Athena local.

T: 952 696 174 - F: 952 696 331 MURCIA MURCIA - PORCELANOSA Avda. Juan de Borbón, s/n.

Parque Comercial Thader.

T: 968 879 527 - F: 981 831 725 CARAVACA DE LA CRUZ PORCELANOSA Avenida Ctra. Granada, 20.

T: 968 705 647 - F: 968 705 648 CARTAGENA - PORCELANOSA C/ Belgrado. Parcela 81.

Pol. Ind. Canezo Beaza.

T: 968 529 302 - F: 968 528 362 LORCA - PORCELANOSA Ctra. de Granada, 127.

Polígono Los Peñones.

T: 968 478 130 - F: 968 470 820 YECLA - PORCELANOSA Avenida de la Paz, 195.

T: 968 718 048 - F: 968 718 048 NAVARRA MULTIVA BAJA - MONTEJO CERÁMICAS Pol. Ctra. Tajonar, Calle 2, Naves 2-4.

T: 948 239 065 - F: 948 230 503 CINTRUÉNIGO - CERÁMICAS CECILIO CHIVITE Pol. Ind. s/n. Variante N-113.

T: 948 811 973 - F: 948 815 249 PAMPLONA - MONTEJO CERÁMICAS Navas de Tolosa, s/n.

T: 948 224 000 - F: 948 226 424 TUDELA - MONTEJO CERÁMICAS Ctra. Tudela -Tarazona.

Pol. Centro de Servicios de Tudela.

T: 948 848 365- F: 948 848 573 OURENSE OURENSE - GREMASA MNL ABAD SABUCEDO S.L. C/ Nosa Señora da Sainza, 48.

T: 988 391 114 - F: 988 250 413 CARBALLIÑO - JOSE R. PITEIRA,S.L. Avda. Julio Rodriguez Soto, 63.

T: 988 271 071 - F: 988 274 780 PALENCIA PALENCIA - CANTALAPIEDRA Juan Ramón Jiménez, 4 - 6.

T: 979 706 421 - F: 979 702 652 PONTEVEDRA DENA - PREFABRICADOS DENA S.L. Rua Galicia, 24 T: 986 743 121 SEIXO, MARÍN - SANEAMIENTOS ROSALES Avenida Doctor Otero Ulloa, 1.

T: 986 702 041 - F: 986 702 080 O GROVE - PREFABRICADOS DENA S.L.

C/Alexandre Boveda, 82 T: 986 733 230 - F: 986 733 415 LALÍN - ALMACENES CANDA, S.L. Calle MonserraT, 36-39 - B. T: 986 780 184 - F: 986 782 301 MOS- BLANCO QUINTAS, S.L. Monte Faquiña s/n - B. T: 986 288 041 - F: 986 486 316 VIGO - SANEAMIENTOS ROSALES García Barbón, 139 - B. T: 986 228 806

T: 977 660 794 - F: 977 662 217 REUS - SEGURA DISSENY SL Plz. Del Nen de les Oques, 8. Reus.

T: 977 312 502 - F: 977 317 211 RODA DE BARA CONSTRUCCIONS CIURO Acceso a Roda de Bara Km 1.

T:977 802 951 - F:977 802 012 VALLS - RAMÓN MAGRIÑA BATALLA C/ Montblanc 14.

T: 977 600 210 - F: 977 603 302

SALAMANCA SALAMANCA - PORCELANOSA Pol. Villares. Ctra. Salamanca Valladolid, km 2,5.

T: 923 243 811 - F: 923 123 414

TERUEL TERUEL - GARGÓN Polígono La Paz, Parcela 143-149.

T: 978 609 661

SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE PORC. Y PAV. CANARIOS Avda. 3 de Mayo, 18.

T: 922 209 595 - F: 922 209 596 LOS LLANOS DE ARIDANE PORC. Y PAV. CANARIOS Las Rosas, s/n.

T: 922 461 112 - F: 922 461 166 SANTA CRUZ DE LA PALMA PORC. Y PAV. CANARIOS Abenguareme, 3.

T: 922 412 143 - F: 922 420 012 SEGOVIA EL ESPINAR - SEGOCER Carretera Madrid - La Coruña, km 64.

T: 921 172 426 - F: 921 171 828 SEGOVIA - SEGOCER José Zorrilla, 134. T: 921 444 122 SEVILLA SEVILLA - PORCELANOSA Pol. Ind.La Negrilla. C/ Tipografía s/n.

(Autovía A-92 dirección Granada) T: 954 579 595 - F: 954 578 304 DOS HERMANAS - PORCELANOSA Parque Cial., Zona 2. Doctor Fleming, Sector 13, Parcela 3.

T: 955 661 368 - F: 955 661 368 LORA DEL RÍO - HERNÁNDEZ CARBALLO S.L. C/ Betis s/n.

T: 955 800 473 - F: 955 801 439 TOMARES - PORCELANOSA San Roque, s/n. Polígono El Manchón.

T: 954 152 792 - F: 954 153 188 SORIA SORIA - MAT. CONSTRUCCIÓN ODORICIO S.L. Polígono las Casas-II. Calles A y J, Parcela 201.

T: 975 233 228 - F: 975 232 188 TARRAGONA CAMBRILS - MONSERRATE ESTIL CERAMIC SL Pol. Ind. Belianes nau 5 Ctra.

Cambrils-Montbrió.

T: 977 364 900 - F: 977 364 953 EL VENDRELL - VIUDA DE ANTONIO FONT C/ Valls, 12.

TOLEDO TOLEDO - PORCELANOSA Pol. Ind. Sta. María de Bequerencia.

C/del Río Marchés, 123.

T: 925 232 402 - F: 925 232 406 ILLESCAS - BIGMAT ALOTRANS S. L. Ctra. A-42, km 32.

T: 925 532 011 - F: 925 51 30 55 VALENCIA ALBUIXECH - PORCELANOSA Avda. Mediterráneo, Parcela 6.

Pol. Ind. del Mediterráneo.

T: 961 400 561-F: 961 401 078 GANDÍA - PORCELANOSA Camí Vell de Daimuz, parcela 307.

T: 962 965 105 - F: 962 965 980 PATERNA - PORCELANOSA Zona Cial. Heron City, Pista Ademuz, S. 6-7 - Calle V-1. Parc.1 Sec.14.

T: 963 160 348 - F: 963 160 599 SEDAVÍ - PORCELANOSA Avenida Mediterráneo. Zona Cial. de Sedaví.

T: 963 185 021 - F: 963 180 094 VALENCIA - PORCELANOSA Colón, 56.

T: 963 530 230 - F: 963 531 688 VALLADOLID VALLADOLID - CANTALAPIEDRA Carretera de Soria A-24, km 5.

T: 983 217 010 - F: 983 200 921 VALLADOLID - CANTALAPIEDRA Don Sancho, 3/5.

T: 983 217 921 - F: 983 308 292 VIZCAYA AMOREBIETA - BILBU Barrio Boroa, s/n.

T: 946 731 158 - F: 946 733 265 BILBAO - BILBU Iturriaga, 78.

T: 944 113 018 - F: 944 128 637 BILBAO - BILBU Alameda Recalde, 39 - 41.

T: 944 218 625 - F: 944 218 879 ZAMORA ZAMORA - PORCELANOSA Avenida Cardenal Cisneros, s/n.

T: 980 519 283 - F: 980 529 404 ZARAGOZA ZARAGOZA - PORCELANOSA

Autovía de Logroño, km 2.

T: 976 403 131 - F: 976 300 094 ZARAGOZA - PORCELANOSA Plataforma Logística PLA-ZA. C/ Taormina, 2.

T: 876 269 500 - F: 876 269 389 ZARAGOZA - PORCELANOSA Parque Cial. Puerto Venecia.

T: 976 930 800 - F: 976 930 603

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> WE’LL BE TALKING ABOUT… A-cero AND porcelanosa

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-cero, the architecture and town planning studio headed by Joaquín Torres together with his partner Rafael Llamazares, has recently presented a project for Porcelanosa’s showroom, industrial premises of 600 m² whose interior is divided into four separate areas that have been perfectly devised to exhibit the materials from Porcelanosa Group. According to the studio, “the building’s exterior enclosure has been attained through a curtain-wall. In the interior, you firstly encounter the planes (walls) that have been placed with the idea of simulating a façade. Once you are inside, the light bathes the flooring and the exhibited materials in the interior, which lends more beauty and power to the product”. They also specify how from the main entrance, and depending on our position, we will be able to see the interior or the materials shown. On the other hand, the project plan has included some trees, for although an abstract shape, the intention is to simulate the outside in an interior space. /

ABOVE Architects Rafael Llamazares and Joaquín Torres (www.a-cero.com).

RIGHT Separate spaces into which the premises of Porcelanosa’s showroom are divided.