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The upper floors of the building are closed with a entirely glass curtain wall. Only the first floor, the basement, and the back façade are clad with a very linear wall cladding in Brazilian green-gray slate. The pieces are completely lengthened and placed horizontally, making the building feel light while at the same time serious.

Single family residential unit located in Göteborg, Sweden. In this project, the cladding chosen was Brazilian graphite slate.

Among the long-lasting reform hotels, we can highlight the Florida, a building with Catalan vault windows and sgraffito dissolved by the weather, which is built on the road between Barcelona and the Tibidabo. It has become a modern Relais Château, and for this availed of the Japanese architect Toshiaki Tange, collaborator of the well-known Arata Isozaki.

For this project, we should highlight the treatment of the panels in the vertical partition of the terraces that were clad on the four sides, as well as all edges of the façade that were also clad, giving a solid appearance The system chosen to fasten the panel cladding was PF-ALT/SO.

Mall Building located in Monterrey, Mexico. The cladding is porcelain in large format combined with off-cuts of 1200 x 600 mm, 1200 x 400 mm and 1200 x 200 m, placed with horizontal blocked joints.

Torre AR building located in the most prestigious business area of Bogotá, Colombia, with a sombre and elegant appearance, mixing glass and matte grey granite. The building perfectly combines three construction types, the glass curtain wall, the alternate translucent and solid façades in glass and granite and the vertical service areas that are practically solid with iso...

This is the largest project executed by Sistema Masa. It is a group of buildings for hospital use owned by the Andalusian Autonomous Region. There were basically two kinds of cladding: curtain wall with glass and aluminum composite and the rest with opaque stone cladding enclosure wall.

The Project is located in a center point of the City of Barcelona,next to the train station with the greatest influx in the city. The façade is resolved with the closure of light waterproof panels and the ventilated façade is supported, transmitting the total weight, by the edges of the slabs and the wind under the windows on the support frames themselves.

Rehabilitated residential building as the original panel cladding had pathologies. The rehabilitation process took place following a very strict safety protocol, starting with the reinforcement of all existing panels with safety anchors in order to avoid detachment of the old cladding.

Façade with porcelain cladding in 110 x 30/60 cm format, of Techlam 3+3 mm. The design of the façade mainly consists of horizontal stripes interrupted horizontally by the predominantly continuous carpentry.

The Project is located in Sant Feliu de Llobregat, Barcelona (Spain). This is a building of public use, and, architecturally, the integral cladding on the five façades, four vertical and the fifth flat and accessible, should be highlighted. The façades are resolved with a linear design on pieces of extruded ceramic.

The Project is located in the Fórum area of the City of Barcelona, next to the Mediterranean sea. The hotel building has over 24 floors and a height greater than 100 m. The façade is resolved with the closure of light waterproof panels and the ventilated façade is supported, transmitting the total weight, by the edges of the slabs and the wind under the windows on the su...

The Project is located in the Industrial Area of El Masnou, Barcelona (Spain), and holds the head offices and services of the bank Caixa Laietana. Architecturally, it is resolved with two types of cladding systems, a curtain wall and a ventilated façade. Its design includes continuous vertical and horizontal joints, and as a detail to strengthen the stone, all of the win...

Single family home located in Mas Falcó - Barcelona, completely designed in White Limestone with the exception of one module clad in Teka slabs. The off-cut is clearly horizontal, strengthening the joints and maintaining the vertical joints practically completely inside the wall.

It forms part of the Maremagnum complex that is a shopping center located in the España dock of the Old Port of Barcelona. The Cinesa building has a ground surface of 3,200 square meters. The set of buildings is the result of the transformation and recovery of the Barcelona coast initiated towards the end of the 80's, motivated by the Olympic Games of 1992.

Hotel and casino in Coquimbo, Chile. The building's design is so special that the cladding took a back seat; the decision was made to use a standardized off-cut that would best work with all the façades with the exception of the wall cladding in the large main cornice which was made to order.

Building located in Madrid. The cladding is Carioca slate with 20 mm thickness and various off-cuts along the width and height, completely arbitrary, located at the line of windows, with vertical blocked joints and continuous horizontal joints.