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we help architects to design and renovate the architectural reality with a unique, beautiful touch. Our facades, brise soleils and other special products make each project a new benchmark.
Roger de Flor
The project consists of two residential buildings for rental, forming a single complex in the Eixample district of Barcelona. The traditional neighbourhood plot divides the building frontage and has a considerable depth, resulting in some variability of the façades, but with a very fragmented and residual inner courtyard.
Viu Residential Building in Lepant
The street-side façade is made of tinted and sandblasted concrete panels produced by Escofet, bringing the old artisan tradition of "sgraffito" stucco, so present in the memory of our city, to life in an industrial way.
Basílica Sagrada Familia
Forms and volumes which would be beyond the possibilities of traditional construction are made a reality by applying yhe most advanced moulding technology. This is how the Temple project is being carried out and in which the structural geometric complexity require highly precise construction. Escofet collaborates with the magnificent project since 1996.
Fabra i Coats
Escofet has developed the concrete paving elements for the corridors and stairs, becoming the element of contact between the new wooden structure and the brick facades of the old factory. The concrete elements contain transparent glass beads in order to allow light to pass through the plants of the building.
Generalitat Administrative Campus
On the roof of the plinth there is a garden that is used as a campus and break out area. In this project, Escofet created the paving of the floating roof of the terraces and the paving and cladding of the garden tiers in vibro-compacted white concrete with a shot blasted finish.
Hotel Rec
The building blends into the neighbourhood, searching for a balance between a contemporary image and respect for its historical surroundings and reconciling this apparent contradiction between the materials used in the UHPC-Slim concrete latticework that characterises the hotel facade and the faceted volumetric composition that folds in on itself and opens up directly onto the Lluís Companys Promenade.
Hotel Almanac Barcelona
In this project Escofet approaches for the first time the integral replacement of the exterior cladding of a building with a ventilated facade system.
Hotel VP Plaza España
Escofet developed the impost elements of the main facade and the elements that make up the rear facade on calle del Río. These imposts are the elements that connect the entire facade, supporting the granite-clad, moulded curved glass pieces, while also creating a link with the structure and incorporating the facade lighting elements. The impost elements are reinforced concrete with stainless steel anchoring elements to guarantee their durability over the long term.
Clínica Pronova
The program is developed in a single plant, a double façade solution carried out through a prefabricated concrete system, making use of a modulation generated by the assembled pieces that follow a rhythm of solids and voids.
Hotel La Rotonda
After its refurbishment, only the emblematic Modernist facade remained, and the interior structure was demolished, along with the entire volume of the extension planned by Enric Sagnier. This lateral volume, completely reformulated, comprises a facade formed by large UHP-Slimconcrete panels, some of them curved, in a quest for a greater permeability and relationship with the surroundings, in keeping with its new use as an office building.
Hotel One Ibiza Suites
The project enhances the connection between building and sea, by modifying the layout of the housing units and the relevant work on the facade, eliminating the overhang of the balconies, in order to increase the sea views. It is focused mainly on installing a series of precast UHPC-Slimconcrete shading elements in white and planters in the same material in order to create a composition featuring the plant motifs that are ever-present in the architecture and fields of Ibiza. The RGB LED lighting transforms the facade at night, highlighting the concrete latticework.
Office Building Facade
The objective of the project is to improve the thermal and acoustic properties of the facade and execute the works within a very short time. This is achieved by moving the new carpentry toward the interior and the use of an industrialised shading facade system formed by modular UHPC pieces with horizontal slats in a thickness of just 4 cm to reduce insolation, without having to use scaffolds and permitting a relatively rapid installation with the crane from outside the building.
Hotel One Hotel Nizuc Resort & SpaSuites
Escofet participates in this project with the manufacture and installation of the latticework of polymeric concrete that surrounds the Akan bar, as well as the glyph that serves as a symbol of the hotel with a volcanic rock finish, both designed by the Architect Alejandro Escudero, as well as elements of decoration, such as pots and cauldrons made in GRC, located in the common areas throughout the resort; Nizuc Resort & Spa, has been included in the list of the best hotels in 2014 according to Travel + Leisure.
One Ocean Marina Port Vell
These facilities create a close link with the urban landscape and the other surrounding "architectures": the yachts. The presence of these buildings is minimised, sitting on the water below the level of the surrounding public space. Their lightweight appearance and simple, elegant composition relate them to their place in the city, midway between the harbour buildings and the monumental architecture of Pla de Palau.
Facade Gran Vía, 641
The project for the total replacement of an extremely damaged façade made up of fibreglass panels and openings with limited dimensions, led to the formation of a new regular mesh formed by 3D modules of UHPC-Slimconcrete, with its entire height enclosed by glazing and with additional solar protection.
Casa Misericordia
The building is created as an enlargement of the former building and he current facilities, successfully resolving the connections between both thanks with the installation of lift with a double entrance and the elimination of architectural barriers.
Guineueta's Market
The panels include translucent, opaque and transparent red polycarbonate discs inserted in the holes, which sheds coloured light into the market during opening hours and also outwards at night, under the effect of artificial light.
Solar Pavilion Ressò
The Ressò hall is energy-efficient and virtually self-sustained thanks to the use of passive bioclimatic strategies; high thermal insulation, energy-capture façades, natural cross-ventilation and the high thermal inertia of the Escofet UHPC-Slimconcrete paving slabs which, apart from adding gravitational stability to the hall, collaborate actively and passively in the thermal conditioning of the hall interior.
Sede iGuzzini
The Spanish head office of iGuzzini Illuminazione Ibérica is in Sant Cugat del Vallès. The building has two parts with different purposes. One is low, wide, partly buried, with no natural lighting, wrapped in face concrete. The other is a spherical glass structure that floats in the landscape.
Ako Suites Aparthotel Diputació
Plant motifs, widely used in the local facade geometry, are the inspiration for this project: an organic bas relief that brings to mind the district's street trees in winter. The continuity between solids and voids allows the facade to be viewed as a whole, rather than as a composition of openings. The balconies are set flush with the plane, integrating the sgraffito relief pattern.
Renaissance Barcelona Fira Hotel
Escofet has participated in the production of moulded concrete panels for the walls of the twin towers, used for the dual purpose of an internal face and support for the screenprinted glass exterior skin. Two basic items have been developed for this purpose: the first one, measuring 3.8 x 3 metres, has a large palm-shaped opening that acts as an interior window for every suite, and a second 3 x 7 metre piece with a horizontal oval aperture that encloses the rooms at the top of the towers.
Valencia Polytechnic University
The façade composition is framed by a concrete perimeter outline which contains the surface area to be covered by the lattice. The lack of louvers at this point lightens and punctuates the common zones- the stairs and the public entrance to the building- accentuating the transparency of the glazed enclosure in contrast to the prominence and elegance of a façade whose expressive language derives from this large-scale lattice
Rubí Central Library
The three facades are resolved with a breakdown of the three modules and their respective variations, optimising the lattice production process with just three moulds. The building’s simple expressive language generates a continuous, lightweight skin that is permeable to light.
Las Arenas
Escofet has collaborated in the design, manufacture and installation of modular paving slabs in buffed precast concrete with incrusted borosilicate glass beads in the five rings that organize the building's new 17,000m2 interior zone. On the upper level there is a circular panoramic terrace with public access, paved with the same concrete and glass bead modules, incorporating a non-slip finish for safe outdoor use.
Aeronautics Cultural Centre
The hanger’s metal structure is covered on three sides with cast stone panels in different shades of black, set on two offset planes that create a relief with an irregular rhythm. The north-west and south-east walls are interrupted, rising off the ground in an expressive opening gesture that provides free access to the hanger. This glazed ground floor plane allows visitors to view the museum exhibitions from the outside as well.
Banc de Sang i Teixits
The façade comprises two facings: concrete on the outside and a second skin on the interior to ensure accurate measurements, presenting a higher quality wooden finish.
Rovira i Virgili University
The most important feature of this work is the architectural concrete cladding used as a heavy, large-format ventilated façade. Another highlight is the lack of mould-removal angles on the panels with their geometric surface relief, maintaining the sharp edges on all surfaces. The granite grey surface finish is gently acid etched.
Illa del Llac in Diagonal Mar
Diagonal Mar is a new residential complex, integrating 1,000 dwellings, that revolves around a 14-hectare central landscaped space designed by EMBT: the “Illa del Llac” or Island on the Lake is one of the builtup components that integrate these five isles complex.
Veles e Vents Building
The project itself resolves the height difference between the city and the sea, with public routes and promenades parallel to the canal, linked by steps and lookout-terraces. For the car park façade on the lower level, Escofet manufactured walls with a tooth section in dark grey pre-cast stone, interrupted by the link steps. Using the same material and finish as these panels, we also produced the Socrates benches, large-format planters and the Net ashtrays.
Bon Pastor - L9 Station
The production of the six types of panels was designed by architects Arderiu & Morató. The process combines white pre-cast stone with a gentle acid-etched finish and encrusted glass beads that let light filter through to colour the station with a dream-like blue tone. Permanent waterproofing ensures minimum maintenance under the envisaged heavy use of this station.
Teknon Medical Center
The facade, composed of architectural concrete panels in a light salmonshade, configures the main volume. In the upper section, it spreads outwith alink to the renovated pre-existing building.
World Trade Center Barcelona
The project for the facades of Barcelona World Trade Center, configures a set of four buildings, rising ten floors above ground level with a circular ground plan looking out in all four cardinal directions. Enclosed between them is a space that is open on the ground and first floors, forming a large central courtyard used for the common services and activities of the complex.
Residential Building in Pau Claris
The challenge of research in this facade is recovering the textures from an analysis of the motifs and colours of the most significant sgraffito eighteenth century facades in Barcelona, evoking the characteristic sgraffito facades. In this research a new technique of sgraffito is developed whose result is the use of reliefs, colors and textures in precast concrete panels.
Palau Sant Jordi Barcelona
The building is enclosed by the east and west façades, made of architectural concrete, which cross the elevated lateral avenues running from south to north as far as the main square. Both façades act as a pedestal or a podium for the building, in which the roof is the most striking feature.
The Sanctuary of Meritxell
Escofet provided architectural concrete pieces with a structural and supportive function for the arches and pillars that characterize the Sanctuary, as well as the indoor and outdoor vibrazolit pavements.