Natural slates
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about natural slates
Project • By Zon-E Aquitectos • Apartments
Social Housing for mine-workers
This project comes up from a tendering process to build state subsidized housing in Cerredo (Asturias), a mining town located in the very heart of the Cantabrian Mountains where no residential construction had been made for over 25 years.
The project has two stages that materialize in two perpendicular buildings forming an L. In the first stage we undertake the biggest building, which faces the road that crosses the town.
The volumetric we propose has an angular shape. It is a geometry crystallized from some elemmentary laws that are given by the town-planning regulations. The formal result is something halfway between a petrified object, a mountain’s shape and a disturbing organism floating over the mountainside.
This “crystall... More
Product • By SSQ • SSQ Riverstone Phyllite
SSQ Riverstone Phyllite
SSQ Riverstone Phyllite, as the name suggests, is technically a phyllite – the next step in the geological metamorphic process of slate. It is harder, denser and stronger than regular slate. Sourced from Argentina, Riverstone’s water absorption rate tests at 0.1%, the lowest absorption rate known in the slate world, which makes it particularly suitable to temperate regions where high rainfall and freezing winter temperatures are common.A PDF of SSQ’s Riverstone range is available to download here. More