The iconic hanging swimming pool in exposed concrete, with a glass wall overlooking Lake Lugano, is the emblem of the Drytech Tankl, which enhances the purity of lines of the project by architect Edy Quaglia.
The edges of the pool and the walkable areas are waterproofed with the continuous Drycoat, which adapts like a second skin to the surface.
Project: Architetto Edy Quaglia, Lugano
Construction: Garzoni, Lugano
Drytech Tank: 40 m²
Overlooking Lake Maggiore, immersed in the woods above Ascona, the house with a hanging pool designed and designed by engineer Bonalumi for himself.
The pool occupies part of the top floor and, from the water, the view sweeps across the entire lake.
The bottom of the pool is the slab of the master bedroom.
The structure is a Drytech Tank in exposed waterproof concrete, with the edge of the pool completely covered with the Drycoat waterproof covering.
Project: Pianifica SA, Locarno
Infinity pool surrounded by an aquatic garden, also infinity.
With a breathtaking view of Lugano Lake, this suggestive swimming pool is a Drytech Tank with three walls against the ground and one – on the lake side – completely exposed.
The AlpTransit Pollegio Operation Center manages the railway traffic of the Gotthard and Monte Ceneri base tunnels.
Known as “The Periscope” for its futuristic architecture, the POC is one of the four SBB operating centers in Switzerland, together with the ultra-modern centers of Lausanne, Olten, Zurich.
Height and shape of the building are the architectural response to two functional constraints.
The POC marks and declares the entrance to the Gotthard base tunnel. It is a symbol.
To be perceived as such by the railway and the motorway it was developed in height.
The second constraint is the dimensional incompatibility between the control room and the type of an office building, which has led to accepting the contrast and expressing it in a radical way. Thus, the double-height slab of the control room is grafted onto a trunk of office space, arranged diagonally on the lot.
The AlpTransit Pollegio Operation Center therefore appears as a sculptural object animated by a twist between the two volumes.
Seen from a moving vehicle it transforms, changing its proportions and offering different states of balance.
Client: Canton Ticino logistics section
Project: Architetto Bruno Fioretti Marquez, Berlino
Structure: Ingg. Borlini & Zanini, Pambio Noranco
Construction: CSC, Lugano
Drytech Tank: 711 m²
The new cinema building in Locarno was born from the transformation of the historic Palazzo Scolastico, designed in 1892 by the architect Ferdinando Bernasconi.
The London-based architectural firm AZPML has capitalized on the existing structure for identity, cultural and environmental reasons.
A screen of movable tiles rationalizes the lines of the facade, but at the same time enhances the original three-volume profile.
The intervention also involves the Remo Rossi square, transformed into a large red carpet perfectly connected to the surrounding street web.
Inaugurated on the occasion of the 70th edition of the Locarno Festival, the Palazzo del Cinema has three avant-garde screening rooms, two of which with 142 seats each, located between the basement and the ground floor, and one with 500 seats on the second floor.
The two underground rooms and all the other service structures below the ground level were built with the Drytech Tank System.
The window sills, on the other hand, are protected with the Drycoat waterproof covering which, with its reduced thickness, does not alter the purity of the architectural lines.
The vibrant covering of gold tiles is iconic. Ethereal, changeable, dynamic: it is architecture, but it looks like cinema.
Owner: PalaCinema SA, Locarno
Project: Consorzio AZPML+DF, Londra/Lugano
Structure: WMM Ingenieure, Münchenstein
Construction: Impresa Mafledil, Osogna
Drytech Tank: 1,200 m²
The Drytech Tank System allows you to create waterproof underpasses without interrupting traffic and, above all, without the risk of damaging the waterproofing.
Commissioned by the Municipality of Muzzano, the Agnuzzo pedestrian underpass was built outside the carriageway, in Drytech waterproof concrete.
The joints have been prepared for resin injection with DRYset channels. The shrinkage cracks were checked with the DRYset crack elements.
The monolith was then pushed by jacks below the roadway, while the ground was progressively dug from the inside.
Once in place, the monolith was injected from the inside with DRYflex resin, whose elasticity and expansion qualities allow the waterproofing to adapt to the vibrations produced by higher traffic.
The ex-post waterproofing, by means of injections, on the one hand cannot be damaged during processing and, on the other hand, also allows to seal any cracks produced by the thrust stresses.
Client: Canton Ticino
Structure: MPN Ingegneria SA, Muzzano
Construction: Geo-Edil SA, Lugano
An atrium that creates a new connection between the Lugano railway station and the urban fabric: a real portal that connects arriving and departing travelers with the rest of the city.
The icon of this project, which adapts the important urban hub to the increase in the flow of travelers and rationalizes their routes, is the large 1,600 square meter canopy suspended above the underground atrium.
The thin, airy roof creates a wallless atrium. From the train window you can thus admire a suggestive glimpse of the lake.
The atrium is lowered to the level of the main underpass, which connects the two parts of the city divided by the station, and through which you access the ramps that lead to the platforms.
The hypogeum is a waterproof structure made with the 2,700 m² Drytech Tank.
Owership: SBB CFF FFS, Lugano
Project: Gruppo architetti StazLu, Lugano
Struttura: Studio d’ingegneria G. Dazio & Associati, Cadenazzo /
Studio d’ingegneria Bernardoni, Lugano
Construction: GeoEdil, Lugano
Drytech Tank: 2’700 m²
Where do architects live? What is the house of someone who designs houses like? The answer of the architect Stefania Trevisani Mahler stands on a flat parcel, on which two independent volumes have been built: one dedicated to the house and the other used as a studio by the photographer Sandro Mahler.
The construction choices favored a prefabricated wooden structure with high insulating potential for all the perimeter walls of the volumes emerging from the height of the garden.
As regards the basement floors, the Drytech Tank System in waterproof concrete was instead opted for, due to the strong presence of water in the subsoil.
Project: Arch. Trevisani Mahler, Cureglia
Structure: Ingg. Giani e Prada, Lugano
Construction: Impresa Taddei SA, Viganello
Drytech Tank: 400 m²
The Paolo Torriani Foundation for minors has created a new structure that allows the institution’s activities to be completed, adapting them to the evolution of the needs of minors in need of reception, protection and educational support.
The upper floors of the structure are intended for ateliers with a therapeutic value, spaces for the involvement of families in the path of children and “bridging apartments” to support young people in the transition from the institute to autonomy and self-determination.
Learning, working, establishing relationships and growing one’s self-esteem: these are fundamental steps in the process of integration and emancipation.
For this reason, the Foundation has identified the Children’s Library, another historical Mendrisio institution, the ideal partner to create a working reality in which to start getting involved in a balanced and protected way.
The Library occupies the ground floor and also offers a literary tearoom.
In some sectors of the façade, the images of the “Flying Boys” with which the artist Roberto Mucchiut interpreted the Foundation’s goal are imprinted directly on the concrete: helping young people to grow in harmony to take flight in life.
The upper limit of the volume follows the slopes of the elegant impluvium roof, designed as a real fifth facade, giving a further element of dynamism to the Tower.
The roof was waterproofed with the elastic and continuous Drycoat covering which, overcoming the need for sheet metal work and with its reduced thickness, guaranteed the purity of the architectural lines.
Drytech has also created the underground level with the waterproof Drytech Tank structure.
Ownership: Fondazione Paolo Torriani, Mendrisio
Projekt: Krausbeck architetto with GSMM architetti, Salorino
Structure: Studio di Ingegneria Roberto Mondada, Balerna
Construction: Impresa Riva Costruzioni, Tremona
Drytech Tank: 600 m²
Drycoat roof: 250 m²
The project of the new Tertianum Residence in Chiasso revolves around the concept of the square: the urban space of exchange, meeting and sharing.
If human relationships, relationships, are what make us recognize a place as our home, the main objective of architecture for the third and fourth age is to create the conditions for the formation of a new community.
Parallel to the themes of independence and privacy of living and care and support services, sociability is the third pillar of a healthy and stimulating life, at any age.
It is essential to live in places that offer us new opportunities to meet.
The Tertianum Residence is, in fact, a new playground in Chiasso and encourages a meeting between generations that will enrich both children and the elderly.
Inside the structure there are, in addition to the panoramic terrace, a restaurant open to the public, a doctor’s office, a podiatrist, a hairdresser and physiotherapy.
The large underground car park built with the waterproof Drytech Tank structure is also equipped with charging spaces for electric cars.
Ownership: Tertianum, Chiasso
Project: DF + Partners, Lugano
Structure: Jelmoni Ingegneria, Ascona
Construction: Quadri, Lamone-Cadempino
Vasca Drytech: 7’500 m2