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Contemporary residential architecture combines a sensibility for design, technological innovation, and practicality to create homes in which experimentation with shapes and materials results in a dynamic interplay of volumes, an ongoing dialogue between interior and exterior spaces, and, at the same time, an overall harmony between buildings and their surrounding contexts. Bold lines and a skilful use of space are at the basis of buildings with a strong identity, in which material references and overlapping layers shape the entire living space, both indoors and outdoors.
Exterior cladding and, more in general, the spaces that surround a building, play a fundamental role in defining a structure, enhancing the overall context, and even, particularly when it comes to the surfaces chosen for cladding, helping to protect against the elements. Ultra-thin porcelain stoneware is one of the most popular solutions among designers and architects who love to experiment. Its technical characteristics make it an extremely flexible and versatile material, with which it’s possible to clad a building while also delivering outstanding performance. In fact, in its thinnest versions, stoneware is the perfect choice for creating ventilated facades, where the slabs are secured using special fixtures, leaving a narrow gap that’s wide enough to allow air to circulate.
The ultra-thin Kerlite slabs by Cotto d’Este, with a thickness of just 3.5mm, 5.5mm, or 6.5mm, are flexible, lightweight, easy to handle, and durable, making them a universal and highly sustainable solution. In addition to having reduced the consumption of raw materials, energy, and water during the production phase, as well as CO2 emissions and pollution caused by transport, Cotto d’Este and Panariagroup, through the THINk ZERO project, have completely offset all residual CO2 emissions, calculating them over the entire product lifecycle and thus making the slabs completely Carbon Neutral.
For outdoor spaces, surfaces with a greater thickness (14 mm or 20 mm) offer a technically and aesthetically high-performance solution: they are exceptionally durable, particularly well-suited for walkways, terraces, and pool decks, and are extraordinarily flat thanks to a slow firing process that enhances their unique graphics and colours.
A sophisticated cladding product for an evocative environment that expresses itself through the most iconic colours. With Elegance, spaces are clad in pristine textures, with natural and radiant highlights, mimicking the most beautiful limestone of Asia Minor: Antalya Limestone. A perfect reproduction, the quality of its finishes and its extreme attention to detail make it stand out from all other types of cladding. Elegance gives every classic or contemporary environment an incomparable allure while uniquely blending style and practicality. In this private home located in Aversa, the use of Kerlite 3Plus slabs, in two complementary nuances and in the 40x100cm format, served to create precise volumes, allowing the entire exterior surface to withstand the test of time.
X Beton’s surfaces are inspired by rolled cement and by textures and colours that are perfectly in line with the trends of modern architecture. Simple and clean surfaces which, nevertheless, retain a deeply personal style and character. In this case, X-Beton’s 14mm slabs were used for the terrace of a villa to create continuity between the interior and exterior spaces.
Metal is a Kerlite 5Plus porcelain stoneware collection, coloured throughout and decorated with a high-definition inkjet system based on various carefully selected graphic combinations. Inkjet technology, applied to the production of porcelain stoneware, enables the creation of surfaces, colors, and chromatic effects that reproduce the details of metal with the utmost fidelity and highest resolution. In Marble House, a luxurious villa in Argentina, large, ultra-thin slabs of Kerlite 5Plus were used to accentuate the modern minimalist volumes and give the entire structure a sophisticated contemporary appeal.
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