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16.01.2019
Gradient satin-finish glass
Visibility and privacy
in glass:
Madras® Pixel Gradient.
in glass:
Madras® Pixel Gradient.
Architect Ivo Pellegri’s design for IDoor’s new headquarters at Castelli Calepio (BG).
IDoor, the well known Bergamo brand and a leading manufacturer and distributor of doors, decided to invest in a new 20,000 m2 headquarters, designed by Ivo Pellegri, at Castelli Calepio. Of the 6,000 m2 of office space, 2,000 m2 are dedicated to a showroom for the brand’s B2B clients providing a vast offering of models and technical assistance for door installers.The open space offices have expansive glass walls meeting the dual requirement of interaction and privacy for personnel. Madras® glass, fruit of the satin-finishing and chemical etching technologies of the Italian Vitrealspecchi, manages to satisfy both with its Pixel Gradient. This model was developed in close collaboration with Ivo Pellegri and has a perfectly smooth pattern of transparent dots gradually increasing in size to provide different degrees of privacy: from the zero degree of transparency to the nearly 100 degrees of the satin-finish area.
And not only: in IDoor’s new headquarters Pixel Gradient was also chosen for the parapets on the mezzanine level of the showroom. Its masking pattern is concentrated in the area where most privacy is needed, so that people on the upper level are protected from any indiscreet gazing from below. Further, standing by a subtly patterned Pixel Gradient parapet does not induce any feelings of dizziness or fear of falling, which may be the case with completely transparent float glass.
On the design front, lastly, the quality that’s shared by Pixel Gradient and Pixel and which at the same time sets them aside from other products is that in terms of stylistic tendencies they are basic, “eternal” glass models unaffected by the aesthetic oscillations of fashion. And it is precisely this variable – time – that needs to be considered in architecture and design projects, where time frames are very different from those of art projects. The special chemical processing techniques employed in producing Pixel Gradient and Pixel make them long lasting and easy to maintain, which along with their unique design renders their industrial character even more robust.
16.01.2019
Gradient satin-finish glass
Visibility and privacy
in glass:
Madras® Pixel Gradient.
in glass:
Madras® Pixel Gradient.
Architect Ivo Pellegri’s design for IDoor’s new headquarters at Castelli Calepio (BG).
IDoor, the well known Bergamo brand and a leading manufacturer and distributor of doors, decided to invest in a new 20,000 m2 headquarters, designed by Ivo Pellegri, at Castelli Calepio. Of the 6,000 m2 of office space, 2,000 m2 are dedicated to a showroom for the brand’s B2B clients providing a vast offering of models and technical assistance for door installers.The open space offices have expansive glass walls meeting the dual requirement of interaction and privacy for personnel. Madras® glass, fruit of the satin-finishing and chemical etching technologies of the Italian Vitrealspecchi, manages to satisfy both with its Pixel Gradient. This model was developed in close collaboration with Ivo Pellegri and has a perfectly smooth pattern of transparent dots gradually increasing in size to provide different degrees of privacy: from the zero degree of transparency to the nearly 100 degrees of the satin-finish area.
And not only: in IDoor’s new headquarters Pixel Gradient was also chosen for the parapets on the mezzanine level of the showroom. Its masking pattern is concentrated in the area where most privacy is needed, so that people on the upper level are protected from any indiscreet gazing from below. Further, standing by a subtly patterned Pixel Gradient parapet does not induce any feelings of dizziness or fear of falling, which may be the case with completely transparent float glass.
On the design front, lastly, the quality that’s shared by Pixel Gradient and Pixel and which at the same time sets them aside from other products is that in terms of stylistic tendencies they are basic, “eternal” glass models unaffected by the aesthetic oscillations of fashion. And it is precisely this variable – time – that needs to be considered in architecture and design projects, where time frames are very different from those of art projects. The special chemical processing techniques employed in producing Pixel Gradient and Pixel make them long lasting and easy to maintain, which along with their unique design renders their industrial character even more robust.
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