ZINTEK® IN ARCHITECTURE

The growing market and spreading of zinc-titanium sheets in Europe and all over the world are only explained by the more and more innovative architecture, which implies an increasing demand for new materials able to adapt to new shapes. In Italy, architecture has always been linked to the strong past tradition, where historical centres and monuments are the standard and not the exception. New and modern buildings must share urban space with monumental and historical buildings. In Italy, the need for harmony between past and present is the rule and must necessarily be taken into account in the design..

Zintek® has a clay gray shade providing architectures with great elegance and formal cleanness. Applied on roofs and façades, it speaks the ancient language of tradition, harmoniously fitting into our historical centres. It is formal cleanness dialoguing with contemporary architecture and allowing to build cutting-edge architectural shapes. Theatres, malls, places of public worship, sport facilities, residential buildings and centres: zintek® has had to face so many different contexts and needs. Architectural designs inserted into the heart of the cities or in the large spaces of suburbia, surrounded by the remains of the past or by the green of the country: in any case, the entire design and the buildings had to be harmonized with the surrounding environment.

The high malleability and workability of zintek® not only allows for a perfect adherence to any architectural profile, both classic and modern, but also a multiplicity of laying techniques, allowing for different application solutions. Double standing seam, angled standing seam, profile patterns, strips and tiles allow for original geometry enhancing the edifice architecture. The various applications of zintek® are part and parcel of the product itself: the installation by skilled staff is an aspect which makes this industrial rolled zinc a craftmade product. Once installed, it gives uniqueness to the building precisely thanks to the manual work of the layers. The designer is then free to unite or to disjoint the volumes using a single material; he/she is able to highlight a single detail, to harmonize a set of details, by simply enhancing the surfaces of roofs and façades, through the various seam techniques.