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LAC, Lugano Art and Culture

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Designed by the Ticino architect Ivano Gianola, the Lac is the new, iconic cultural center of Lugano, which hosts a large theatre, an art museum, exhibition halls, spaces for events and which creates a square in continuity with the city's urban planning , which  offers convenient underground parking on the lakefront.

Designed by the Ticino architect Ivano Gianola, the Lac is the new, iconic cultural center of Lugano, which hosts a large theatre, an art museum, exhibition halls, spaces for events and which creates a square in continuity with the city’s urban planning , which  offers convenient underground parking on the lakefront.

The complex integrates the façade of the historic Hotel Palace and develops around a large square which can in turn host shows and exhibitions.

The city also has 10,000 m² of pedestrian areas and a park behind the building.

Drytech designed and built the waterproofing of the underground structures of both bodies, for a total of 19,800 m² of Drytech Tank, built below the level of the lake.

Client: Città di Lugano

Project: Architect Ivano Gianola, Mendrisio

Structure: Eng. Sciarini, Vira Gambarogno

Construction: Cosma Swiss SA, Lugano

Photo: Studio Pagi, Lugano

Drytech Tank: 19’800 m²

Double waterproofing for the pool surrounded by a water garden

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Piscina a sfioro immersa in un giardino acquatico, anch’esso a sfioro. Con una vista mozzafiato sul lago di Lugano.

Double waterproofing for the infinity pool surrounded by a water garden, also an infinity pool with a breathtaking view of Lake Lugano.

This striking pool is a Drytech Tank with three walls against the ground and one – lake side – fully exposed.

Project: Franzi and Canetta Architects, Noranco

Riga House, Comano

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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.

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 the underground levels

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The AlpTransit Operations Centre in Pollegio, which operates the railway traffic in the Gotthard and Monte Ceneri base tunnels.

Waterproofing the underground levels of the AlpTransit control tower with the Drytech Tank waterproof concrete structure.

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

Trenord railway underpass, Saronno

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

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

Hotel Hilton, Como

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Hilton Lake is the largest hotel structure on Lake Como. The roof top is dominated by an infinity pool made of the waterproof Drytech White Tank structure.

Hilton Lake is the largest hotel on Como Lake.

Opened in 2018, it has 170 rooms, two restaurants, a spa with indoor pool, a state-of-the-art fitness center open 24 hours a day and a conference area divided into 6 modular spaces and a total capacity of 300 seats.

On the elegant rooftop on the top floor of the building, guests can enjoy the breathtaking view of the lake directly from an infinity pool – created by Drytech in a single waterproof concrete structure -, from the adjacent lounge bar with terrace overlooking the city gulf. or, on the opposite side, from the solarium with hydromassage.

The project by architects Dario Pietro Cazzaniga and Monica Limonta started with the redevelopment and renovation of two existing buildings: a former brick weaving house, which houses the entrance, reception and lounge bar Taffeta, and a rear body that has been completely redesigned on the large floor-to-ceiling windows of the rooms.

The two main bodies are connected by a modern glass structure that houses the lobby and reinterprets the lakeside tradition of greenhouses and winter gardens.

The whole structure, including the 21 suites, was furnished by the architects Cazzaniga and Limonta.

A global approach that is reflected in the elegant architectural and functional unity of the project and which places the structure at the top of the Lake Como hôtellerie.

Ownership: VICO SpA, Como

Project: AArch. Dario Pietro Cazzaniga e Monica Limonta

Structure: Ing. Filippo Valaperta – FV Progetti

Construction: Nessi & Majocchi SpA, Como

Drytech Tank: 120 m²

Nuvola Lavazza, Turin

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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 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

Denitrification tanks, Bresso

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

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

PalaCinema, Locarno

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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 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

Pedestrian underpass, Agnuzzo

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The Drytech Tank System allows you to create waterproof underpasses without interrupting traffic and, above all, without the risk of damaging the waterproofing

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