Vanguard
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Project • By ULMA Architectural Solutions • Housing
DIAGONAL SKYSCRAPER
It is a building of huge dimensions and great complexity in execution, as the tight project execution deadlines required the facade to be installed while they finished constructing the 6 new floors on the building.With exceptional views, it has become one of the most avant-garde buildings in the cityULMA Architectural Solutions has installed its ventilated façade solution on the avant-garde tower with 124 apartments, 26 floors and a height of 100 metres in the very modern area of Diagonal. This spectacular skyscraper is located on the corner of Avenida Diagonal and Pere IV and is the ninth tallest building in the city. The project was carried out by Moliner Office Architects, a Barcelona-based architectural studio run by Jordi Mol... More
Project • By ULMA Architectural Solutions • Offices
Green Ray Malaga
ULMA’s solution complied with the technical requirements and offered a technologically suitable material.The Green Ray building belongs to Andalusia Technology Park, with headquarters at the University of Malaga campus. It is a business incubator, with a programme consisting of offices of different sizes, with a technological focus, for new entrepreneurs as well as already consolidated companies. The ventilated facade is an exterior cladding system for the walls of a building, leaving a ventilated chamber between the cladding and the insulation. It is the most effective system to improve a building's insulation, eliminating undesirable thermal bridges, as well as condensation problems. For this and other r... More
Project • By ULMA Architectural Solutions • Universities
Zerrenner Foundation School Unit
ULMA Architectural Solutions has supplied and installed 12,000 m2 of Vanguard range in the educational complex in the city of Sete Lagoas, Brazil.Sete Lagoas School has been built on a large plot on Avenida Cornélio Viana, on the outskirts of the city, with the landscape of the Sierra de Santa Helena as a backdrop.The studio of the architect Gustavo Penna was responsible for its construction.The entrance curved facade, its main architectural featureSeen from the main road, the complex is defined by the curve facade of the extensive entrance, which acts as a welcome gesture and takes it shape from ULMA’s Ventilated Facade system. The project is full of meanings and is based on the idea that different activities can coexist in harmony; theref... More
Project • By MVN Arquitectos • Social Housing
24 Social Housing Units in Santurtzi
The building is located in a neighbourhood in the outskirts of Santurtzi, in a predominantly industrial area which is currently being transformed, on a plot sharply sloping toward the Bilbao estuary. Given the predominant NW-SE longitudinal orientation of the plot and its 12.10m bay, the homes have a double orientation, choosing NE for the bedrooms, providing sun early in the morning, and SW for living rooms and kitchens. The design of the façade and airwells provides an optimal bioclimatic behaviour. More
Project • By ULMA Architectural Solutions • Theaters
PORTOSEGURO THEATRE
Located in a central area of the city of São Paulo, the project designed by the Studio AIC ARQUITETURA E URBANISMO and the Architect Israel Sancovski (Restorations of the commercial builidng), is part of a project for the restoration of the "Campos Elísios" neighbourhood.
CHALLENGE
The challenge was to resolve the architectural language that had to be maintained between the two existing buildings, on the one hand, the shopping centre and, on the other, the newly built Theatre. This harmony of languages has been possible thanks to the flexibility and adaptability of the ULMA Ventilated Facade system.
To tackle the restoration project of the existing building it was necessary to strengthen both the structure and the pillars of the... More