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Waterproofing the diaphragm wall of a five-storey underground

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In Piazza Sant'Ambrogio in Milan, the company Borio Mangiarotti S.p.A. built a five-storey underground car park.

Waterproofing the diaphragm wall of a five-storey underground car park with the Drytech Tank system increased the internal volume and the number of available parking spaces.

In Piazza Sant’Ambrogio, in Milan, the construction company Borio Mangiarotti S.p.A. built a five-storey underground car park.

Drytech has designed a waterproofing system for the diaphragm, based on Injectable Waterstop Tapes.

By making the diaphragm waterproof directly, it was not necessary to create the lining wall, thus increasing both the internal volume to comply with the legal limits, and the surface, or the parking spaces available.

The Injectable Waterstop Tape for the joints between the partitions of the diaphragms is a Drytech patent that makes it possible to maintain the joint with ex-post injections of resin, performed in the event of any infiltrations.

The Drytech tape is laid with a special sheet piling which acts as a formwork of the diaphragm wall.

The diaphragm of the parking lot that flanks the Milanese basilica drops to a depth of 22.70 meters and the laying of a sheet pile of this size required special care by the company’s technicians, to ensure perfect alignment of the joints.

At the end of the casting, the sheet pile is extracted, equipped with a new belt and repositioned for the casting of the next septum.

The re-injectability of the DRYflex resin guarantees the possibility of carrying out maintenance on the diaphragm at any time, by intervening from inside the structure, without excavation or demolition and, above all, without having to close the car park.

Client: Comune di Milano

Structure: Ingegner Domenico Insigna, Milano

Construction: Borio Mangiarotti SpA, Milano

Drytech Tank:
Diaphragm: 5,600 m², h 22.70 m
Bed: 3,300 m²

AET, Montecarasso

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The new administrative headquarters of AET in Monte Carasso (the Ticino Energy Company) produces more energy than it consumes.
The waterproofing of the Azienda Elettrica Ticinese headquarters with the Drytech Tank system is consistent with AET’s mission.

The new administrative headquarters of AET in Monte Carasso (the Ticino Energy Company) produces more energy than it consumes.

On the one hand it boasts maximum energy efficiency in every technical component inside the building, on the other it produces energy entirely derived from renewable sources.

A positive energy balance, consistent with the corporate mission, which makes it the public building with the best energy performance in the Canton.

Designed by architects Lukas Meyer, Ira Piattini and Francesco Fallavollita, the new administrative headquarters of the Ticinese Electric Company appears impenetrable or transparent, simply matching the point of view.

The core of the building is in fact set back from the modular concrete grid facade. What a surprising optical effect from the outside translates into visual comfort on the inside: the offices are in fact flooded with mostly indirect natural light.

The site is lapped by the Ticino river and a stretch of water has been created between the existing building and the new one.

The underground structure was therefore built with the Drytech Tank system: a waterproof construction of 1,190 m², which houses the technical rooms, changing rooms, warehouses and the AET general archive.

Client:
Azienda Elettrica Ticinese

Project: AArch. Lukas Meyer e Ira Piattini, Lugano + Fallavollita, Como

Structure: Tajana & Partner Ingegneria SA, Bellinzona / Spadea e Bondini, Lugano

Construction:
Bossi e Bersani SA, Bellinzona 

Drytech Tank: 1,190 m²

Waterproofing of a completely underground house

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The roof of Casa Riga is the lawn in which it is set, thanks to the Drytech White Tank waterproofing, consisting of Drytech waterproof concrete bed, walls and slab.

The waterproofing of a completely underground house was realised with a complete Drytech Tank: waterproof bedplate, walls and slab.

Riga House is a truly special farmhouse overlooking Comano Terme.

The idea was to create a house for a family of farmers and an farmhouse for their guests within a farm, without interrupting the precious continuity of an Alpine landscape made up of orchards and sloping meadows.

An ambitious request, to which Studio Stefania Saracino and Franco Tagliabue Architetti gave a radical response, setting the Casa Riga directly in the mountain just outside Comano Terme, in Trentino.

The structures in contact with the ground, bed and walls in contact with the ground, were built with the Drytech Tank System.

Project: Saracino Tagliabue Architects, Bolzano / Como

Structure: Ing. Giovanni Periotto, Trento

Construction: Damiani-Holz&Ko, Bressanone

Energy: Energytech, Bolzano

Photo: Davide Cornacchini, Venice

Drytech Tank: 725 m²

Waterproofing of a railway subway

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The Trenord railway subway at Saronno, built in six days without interrupting upper railway traffic.

The waterproofing of a railway subway was achieved in just six days and without blocking train traffic thanks to the characteristics of the Drytech Tank.

The Trenord railway subway at Saronno is a demonstration of how one road can be opened without closing another.

The route of a new section of the Trenord railway intersects the Milan-Varese line at Saronno Sud.

The subway that allows the crossing was built in just six days and without interrupting the railway traffic on the line above.

The top-down or Berliner technique was adopted. First, micropiles were driven into the ground to form the bulkheads of the two shoulders of the subway. One section of track was removed, diverting traffic onto the other.

Then the excavation and casting of the Drytech waterproof concrete slab was carried out, supporting the bulkheads and prepared with DRYset crack control elements. The entire operation took only three days, at the end of which the track was restored.

The procedure was then repeated on the other track. After a further three days, the line returned to full operation, with both tracks open.
Excavation was then carried out under the slab, the casting of the slab for the track bed of the subway, and finally the re-cast, directly against the micropiles.

Once the concrete was cured, the joints, punctures and planned cracks were injected with DRYflex Resin, which expanded and sealed them by pressure.

Drytech Engineering provided advice on aspects relating to waterproofing, collaborating with the structural engineer already in the design phase of the underpass.

Ownership: Ferrovie Trenord, Milano

Structure: Studio I.R. Ingegneri Riuniti – Ing. Giuseppe Barbagallo, Catania

Constraction: SALCEF Spa, Roma

Drytech Tank: 1,800 m²

Waterproofing of the underground garage of Lavazza

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The Lavazza Cloud designed by Cino Zucchi Architetti and the historic buildings recovered by Cino Zucchi himself together with Picco Architetti, are an example of architecture that dialogues with the neighborhood, with time and with the environment.

The waterproofing of the underground garage of the new Lavazza business centre in Turin is a Drytech Tank structure, which allowed the construction of the basement to be accelerated.

The Lavazza Cloud designed by Cino Zucchi Architetti and the historic buildings recovered by Cino Zucchi himself together with Picco Architetti, are an example of architecture that dialogues with the neighborhood, with time and with the environment.

Over time, the area affected by the intervention has hosted the activities of the Alta Italia Electric Company, Sip and finally Enel.

A historic production site surrounded by a boundary wall.

The large block was opened and transformed into a pedestrian square overlooked by all the spaces, both newly built – the new Lavazza business center – and recovered.

A place that becomes an integral part of both the road system and the life of the neighborhood, with the large square-garden and its premises and with the underground public parking.

The environment helped shape the height of the building, which varies on different sides from six to two floors, depending on the solar orientation and the surrounding buildings.

The metal pilasters and stringcourses form an external grid on the floor of the windows which, depending on the seasons and the same hours of the day, helps to shield or favor the penetration of sunlight.

The uninterrupted dialogue with the environment includes roofs covered by greenery, hanging gardens inserted between the offices and a sophisticated digital system that programs the environmental parameters – such as temperature and lighting – in relation to the times and methods in which the different spaces are used, so as to maximize living comfort and energy efficiency.

Ownership: Lavazza, Torino

Project:
Cino Zucchi Architetti, Milano
Picco Architetti, Torino

Structure: Ing Giorgio Piccarreta – AI Engineering, Torino

Construction: Colombo Costruzioni, Lecco

Drytech Tank: 12,590 m²

Waterproofing the denitrification tanks

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The walkway through the denitrification tanks made of the waterproof structure Drytech White Tank

Waterproofing the denitrification tanks of a water purifier is the most severe test for the watertightness of a system due to the particular aggressiveness of the waste water.

The Bresso Niguarda treatment plant was equipped with a new denitrification basin of 10,800 m³.

Wastewater denitrification is a process for the removal of nitrogenous compounds present in solution by optionally heterotrophic bacteria.

The part of the plant where the process takes place is a rectangular tank divided into two chambers of equal size, connected only superficially, which allow the continuity of the treatment, even when one of them needs to be emptied for maintenance.

Being a single waterproof concrete structure, the Drytech tank has the advantage of allowing maintenance interventions carried out from inside the tanks and immediately verifiable.

Ownership: CAP Holding SpA, Assago

Project: Ing.Gabriele Ghilardi, Bergamo

Work Management: Ing.Emanuele Calloni – MI10studio, Milano

Construction: Intesa Costruzioni, Treviolo

Drytech Tank: 3,531 m²

Waterproofing of the underground cinema halls

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The red carpet of the 70th Locarno Film Festival inaugurated the new cinema building. A screen of movable tiles designed by the London-based architecture firm AZPML rationalises the lines of the façade, while at the same time enhancing the original three-volume profile.

The waterproofing of the underground cinema halls of the Palazzo del Cinema di Locarno and all the basement rooms was carried out with the Drytech Tank within existing perimeter walls.

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

Residence EOS du Parc, Montagnola

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Residence du Parc is located in a clearing in the Montagnola wood, on the Golden Hill overlooking Lugano.

Residence du Parc is located in a clearing in the Montagnola wood, on the Golden Hill overlooking Lugano.

A private park of 6,000 m2 with an outdoor swimming pool and views of the surrounding mountains.

The residence has two underground levels which house the garage on -1 and -2 laundries, cellars and technical rooms.

On the ground floor, in addition to the main entrance, there is the SPA and fitness area.

The location and development of the building adapt to the morphological profile of the land and relate to the neighboring maps to produce the maximum possible integration with the surrounding natural environment and with the solar arc.

Drytech has built the underground waterproof structures in exposed concrete and the swimming pools with the Drytech Tank system.

Project: Gieffe Studio, Lugano

Structure: Studio d’Ingegneria BRC, Agno

Construction: GTL, Gravesano

Drytech Tank: 1’900 m2

The Teen’s Library, Mendrisio

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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 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

Mortuary, Chiasso

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A detail of the canopy, with the evocative openings giving a glimpse of the sky.

The architect Paolo Andreani conceived the new crematorium in Chiasso. The structure, located in the center of the municipal cemetery, is characterized by an evocative perspective opening and an engaging permeability to natural light and the sky.

Crossing the entrance to the cemetery, the crematorium appears as a sort of rationalist arch. A door, a passage beyond which you can see, in a long perspective, the final limit of the burial ground.

The side volumes are hidden from view by cypresses, so the central nave appears as a dividing line between the earth and the sky.

Walking along the nave, welcomed by a bronze deposition by the sculptor Ivo Soldini of Ligornetto, we discover small openings with a square section that adorn the ceiling with glimpses of the sky.

In the center of the nave there is an altar above which a circular opening in the roof reaffirms the sense of transcendence of the place. The skilful use of natural and indirect light finds its apex in the rooms of the lateral bodies.

The full-height glass walls overlook minimal gardens, enclosed by perforated walls. The outside world is perceived behind a curtain and the light falls softly from above.

The architecture of these environments arouses the protection of an embrace and promotes meditation. The farewell rooms and the ceremonial hall – with the large stained glass window by the Swiss artist and glassmaker Servais Bastian Grivel – convey a sense of peace and harmony.

Ownership: Associazione Ticinese Cremazione, Chiasso

Project: Arch. Paolo Andreani, Chiasso

Structure: Ing. Chiesa e Partners, Chiasso

Construction: GTL, Gravesano

Drytech Tank: 530 m²