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Almost 150 years. The passage of many years, carrying out meticulous and delicate, exclusive and precise work. From Oliva (Valencia), our company Decorativa has carried into the world its philosophy of life.We design and manufacture flooring, cladding, and trims in terracotta, glazed ceramics, and stone. From our initial fabrication of roof tiles, in 1862, to our latest innovations in terracotta, Finish and Colours, the five generations of our family Pascual-Barreres have striven to keep us far from the production processes of the great industries.We are committed to a system of craftwork combined with the most advanced technology. Our raw materials, clay, and natural stone are the starting point for the creation of contemporary spaces, in which design and exclusiveness enable us to customise every project. Our differential value allows us to adapt to each client’s inspiration, creating a personal style for every client.

Specialisation and the exclusiveness of our pieces have translated, for many years, into their use in leading architec-tural and restoration projects. We have even collaborated in the fabrication of ad hoc products made for singular projects.Our materials stand at the service of architecture and art worldwide. They may be viewed in the most widely diffe-ring places in the world, in emblematic projects, and in the most prestigious forums of architecture and heritage restoration.

PABELLÓN de ESPAÑA, Expo. Universal AICHI, Japón 2003

Arquitecto: F.O. Architects, Alejandro Zaera Polo y Farshid Moussavi (London, UK)

Ubicación: AICHI (Japón) Fecha inicio: 9/2004 Fecha final: 12/2004

Descripción del proyecto:

The concept was to reproduce a great perforated wall, a great system of ceramic lattices. This latticework enve-loped the preconstructed pavilion, leaving a transition area between outside and the inside, a middle chamber in which the light became warm.For this purpose, a complex system was created of ceramic lattices and stainless steel structures with fastenings for their mechanical installation, designed by the building architect, and constructed by the Takenaka company. The ceramic pieces were developed in a collaborative undertaking by the companies Decorativa and Cerámica Cumella. The ceramic system consisted of fourteen pieces, six of which had different, irregular hexagonal shapes, with their corresponding symmetrical pieces, since the wall was clad on both the outward-looking face and the inward-looking face, in addition to two special pieces to form the corners. The entire wall assembly, made up of 12,500 ceramic pieces, thus installed on both faces of the wall envelope, which was over 12 m tall, materialised as an irregular membrane, an effect that was reinforced by the use of a wide range of warm colours, two reds and a selenium orange, yellow, salmon, and dark brown. The colour palette was also based on Mediterranean colours.

Pieces of the project:

Plans and renders

Initial colour range proposal

Pressing

Anchoring incision

Definitive colour range proposal

Cutting of the rear part of the pieces

Glazing

Glazed pieces leaving the kiln

Technical strength trials

Anchoring system trial Final check by the builder

Detail of the installation. Corner pieces

Detail of the anchoring

View of the Pavilion main façade

Detail of the pieces

Inside view of the installation

Night view of the Spanish Pavilion

Inside view of the installation

Inauguration by the Japanese authorities

Proyecto: Auditorio y Palacio de Congresos de Zaragoza, 2008

Arquitecto: Fuensanta Nieto y Enrique Sobejano arquitectos (Madrid, Spain)

Ubicación: Exposición Universal de Zaragoza (Spain) Fecha inicio: 2/2007 Fecha final: 12/2007

Project description:

Through the collaboration between Decorativa and Cerámica Cumella, 62,000 ceramic pieces were fabricated, involving glossy and matt triangles arranged on more than 15,000 rhombuses set on glass-fibre-reinforced cement (GRC) panels, cladding the roof of the new Auditorium and Conference Centre in Zaragoza, designed by architects Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano. The most outstanding feature of the building, according to Patricia Grande of the designer team, was its great roof, which she describes as a ‘white ceramic mantle in shades ranging from matt to gloss’, measuring 12,000 square metres, made with glass-fibre-reinforced concrete panels and an external, so-called deployé, expanded metal mesh with rhombus holes.

The material used was stoneware fired at high temperature, chosen because of the high durability required in the building roof. In addition, it needed to withstand the sharp temperature changes occurring in the city of Zaragoza

Project items:

Initial scale models of the project

Measurements of the ceramic module

Surface finish of the glaze Glazed final pieces

Check of the measurements of the ceramic module

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Preparation of the GRC panels

GRC panels ready for installation

Installation of GRC panels

Installation of GRC panels

View of the gloss/matt effect produced by the ceramic pieces

View of the ceramic roof of the Auditorium



View of the Auditorium, showing the matt–gloss contrast of the roof.


Night view of the Auditorium

PABELLÓN de ESPAÑA, Expo. Universal ZARAGOZA, Spain 2008

Arquitecto: Francisco Mangado (Pamplona, Spain)

Ubicación: ZARAGOZA (Spain) Fecha inicio: 9/2004 Fecha final: 12/2004


In the Spanish pavilion of the Expo 2008, which was held in Zaragoza (Spain), architect Patxi Mangado designed a building of 8,000 m2 surrounded by 750 columns clad with 25,000 ceramic pieces specifically designed and produced for this building work. When Zaragoza was chosen in 2005 as the venue of this Universal Exhibition, under the motto ‘WATER’, the SEEI (State Society for International Exhibitions) called a competition of ideas among Spanish architects to design this pavilion. The architect chosen was Patxi Mangado, born in 1957 in ESTELLA (Navarra), winner of the Spanish Architecture Biennial, professor of architecture at the University of Navarra and professor of architecture at Harvard University (U.S.A.).Setting out from the idea of ‘WATER’, the Ebro river and the city of Zaragoza, Patxi Mangado envisioned the pavilion as a magical and provocative space, full of sensations, a place conceived as an autumn forest, a visit to which was not just something that began and ended, but was a lasting experience.In order to fuse this idea of the forest with architecture, Patxi Mangado decided to clad the 750 columns, which were 16 metres tall, with fired clay ceramics, the most widely used material in the historical architecture of Ara-gon, from the Arab era to today.

Scale model, render, and plans of the project:

lámina de agua

Circulación del aire tratado

Sondas tª / HR

Sondas tª agua impulsada

Sonda tª / HR

Sonda tª cerámica

Sondas tª cerámica

Sondas tª cerámica

Sonda tª cerámica

CLIMATIZACIÓN

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Cutting of the pieces Pieces ready to enter the kiln

Pieces in the kiln Final pieces

Pieces exiting the extruder

Final revision of the pieces Trial of the anchoring pieces

Trial of the pieces in the building work

View of the Pavilion

Detail of the pieces partly immersed in water to create an inner ‘microclimate’ in the Pavilion.

Detail of the ceramic columns.

Inauguration of the Pavilion by the Authorities.

Detail of the columns forming the ‘ceramic forest’

Night view of the Pavilion

View of the Pavilion during the Universal Exhibition of Zaragoza

Detail of the ceramic pieces

Proyecto: Instalación efímera “Urban Guerrilla” CTAV, VALENCIA, Spain 2009

Arquitecto: GGlab: José Ramón Tramoyeres (Spain), Andrés Arias (Méjico) y Sangyup Lee (Korea)

Ubicación: VALENCIA (Spain) Fecha inicio: 5/2009 Fecha final: 7/2009


An innovative project of ephemeral architecture is involved, which rehabilitates and transforms the façade of the Valencian Territorial College of Architects (CTAV) headquarters. ‘Urban guerrilla’, devised by the GGlab network of architects, is an installation of geometric and winding forms envisioned to ‘rehabilitate’ the building façade, ‘regenerating it for the use of the citizens’. The work, located at one of the corners of the building, ‘seems to be almost flying between the elements that make up the façade, creating a tension between the adjacent buildings and their surroundings and its fluid shape’. In this sense, the light effects created by its surface gloss have been essential to achieving this feeling of lightness, a lightness and softness that ‘changes the scale of the building, humanising it’, as the project report explains. The close collaboration between GGlab and Decorativa has enabled ceramic pieces to be devised that perfectly match the characteristics of this digital architecture project. Flat and curved pieces of stoneware fired at high temperature with a golden metallised glaze developed, respectively, by a complex process of extrusion and moulding. In all, seven different models of pieces were made to fit the installation shapes, which will feature in the CTAV façade next autumn.

PROJECT DATA SHEET

Project: Urban Guerrilla Installation Valencian Territorial College of Architects (CTAV). July-November 2009. Architects: GGlab network, José Ramón Tramoyeres (Spain), Andrés Arias (Mexico), and Sangyup Lee (Korea).Performance by Decorativa and Cerámica Cumella: fabrication of seven different models of triangular pieces of stoneware fired at high temperature with a golden metallised glaze, both curved and flat. Technical characteristics of the pieces:

Material: stoneware fired at high temperature with a golden metallised glaze.Measurements: various trianglesFabrication method: extrusion for the flat pieces and moulding for the curved items.Firing temperature: 1200 °C.Firing atmosphere: reducing atmosphere. Water absorption: below 3%.

PROJECT RENDER

Details of the ‘Urban Guerrilla’ installation

Fachada cerámica para la Ampliación del Hospital Arnau de Vilanova

Arquitecto: Lluís Cantallops

Ubicación: LLEIDA (Spain) Fecha inicio: 6-2007 Fecha final: 2-2011


Decorativa was commissioned to produce the ceramic pieces that were to cover the façade of the Enlargement of the Arnau de Vilanova Hospital, in Lleida.In this enlargement it was sought to use the same material as that used in the previous phase, though this use was to be modernized. In the old part, the ceramic façade covered the entire surface, whereas in the enlarge-ment it was intended to serve concurrently as a decorative element, lattice system, and ventilated façade to help the internal thermal conditioning. For this purpose, a piece was designed similar to the former in colour and form, though it was more developed. The dominant horizontal lines in the foregoing phase were thus maintained; however, the pieces were installed on a metal structure separate from the façade, resembling a ventilated façade. The greater or lesser concentration of the pieces let more or less light filter through, depending on the needs of each room.The material used in this project was stoneware fired at high temperature, produced by extrusion, each piece then being cut to size. The development of the metal pieces was entirely carried out by DISSET, the engineering company that Decorativa customarily works together with in all its projects, which has resolved all the mechanical fastenings that we have needed.

Images of the production of the ceramic pieces

Installation of the ceramic pieces

Detail of the anchoring structure of the ceramic pieces

View of a corner of the installation

Detail of the installation

Side view of the installation where the areas with fewer pieces may be observed

View of the building enlargement next to the old Hospital

Detail of the pieces

Detail of the old façade

Cerámica Cumella. Cubierta cerámica “Mercat de Santa Caterina”

Arquitecto: Enric Miralles y Benedetta Tagliabue

Ubicación: BARCELONA (Spain) Fecha inicio: 9/2002 Fecha final: 6/2004


Cerámica Cumella was in charge of the production of the ceramic pieces that covered the roof of this traditio-nal market in the old part of Barcelona. A number of prerequisites were set: the pieces needed to be able to withstand the wind and weather, adapt to the different curved surfaces of the roof designed by Enric Miralles and Benedetta Tagliabue, transmit the colourfulness that may be found in a fruit and vegetable market, and be installable on an unconventional deck, namely wood. For this purpose, a small-sized hexagonal shape, measuring 20x20 cm, was chosen. Each piece acted as a small pixel that, in turn, was one of a group of pixels, so that the patterns chosen by the architects could be reprodu-ced. The material used was stoneware fired at high temperature, owing to its durability outdoors and its glazeabi-lity. The colour development encompassed 67 different colours in all. The hexagonal pieces were replaced by rectangular pieces for the flat roofs and by small ceramic tile fragments (known as trencadís) in the areas where neither the rectangular nor the hexagonal pieces fitted.The roof installation was performed with the collaboration of the adhesives company SIKA, owing to the uncon-ventional substrate. In addition, the installation was started with the assistance of GPS systems.

PROJECT DATA SHEET

Technical characteristics of the pieces:Material: glazed stoneware fired at high temperature.Measurements: 20x20 cm hexagons, 10x30 cm rectangular pieces, and trencadís.Fabrication method: extrusion for the flat pieces and embossing.

Scale model of the project:

Three-dimensional and flat colour development

Flat extrusion and wet embossing Firing of the pieces in a bell kiln

Flat development of the project

Start of the roof installation

Installation study of the hexagonal modules

Assembly of the hexagons in hexagonal modules

Cerámica Cumella. Fachada cerámica “Villa Nurbs”

Arquitecto: Enric Ruiz Geli

Ubicación: GERONA (Spain) Fecha inicio: 9/2002 Fecha final: 6/2004


Innovative and complex project of a private single-family dwelling. The work performed by Cerámica Cumella consisted of making the ceramic pieces proposed by the architect Enric Ruiz Geli. The shape of the proposed pieces resembled fish scales, related to the owner’s trade.The material chosen was extruded through-body coloured stoneware fired at high temperature. The 5 cm thick-ness was a handicap for the fabrication of the pieces, as it was for their production system. In order to be able to resolve the three-dimensional form requested by the architect, a unique production system was used. Blocks of expanded polyethylene were machined by a CAD system, each with the different shapes of the pieces and, once the blocks had been cut and shaped, the pieces, which had first been flat and had subsequently taken on the shape of the mould once the initial moisture had been lost, were installed with the help of several operators. The only decoration displayed by the pieces was their black ceramic through-body colour, a longitudinal line that travelled across the piece, and glaze dripping performed by a graphic artist, in which the glaze gloss contrasted with the matt ceramic surface finish.The anchoring was solved with a curve that served as a hook.

PROJECT DATA SHEET

Technical characteristics of the pieces:Material: through-body coloured stoneware fired at high temperatureMeasurements: irregularFabrication method: extrusion for the flat pieces and hand embossing

Building process of the dwelling

Machining of the blocks of expanded polyethylene.

New on-going Projects

Initial scale model of the Ceramic roof and façade for the Teachers College in Granada (SPAIN)

Detail of the installation of the pieces adapting to the curved surface


Detail of the façade.

Detail of the anchoring of the ceramic pieces


Ceramic latticework for a private Nursery, Granada (SPAIN)

Details of the ceramic latticework.

New on-going Projects . Ceràmica Cumella

Ceramic façade for the Oceanario, Lisboa (PORTUGAL)

Detail of the façade.

New on-going Projects . Ceràmica Cumella

Details of the ceramic latticework.



Ceramic façade for the new nueva building of Banco Popular, Madrid (ESPAÑA)

Project render

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