Boatiné coat (129)

What an amazing solution! Covering the façade with an EPDM membrane like a padded jacket or a “boatiné coat”. It’s so obvious, but not common! I only remember one similar solution on the back façade of the Frei Photographic Studio in Weil am Rhein, by Herzog & de Meuron. They also used a waterproof membrane, on that occasion made of asphalt, for the cladding.

VPO en Vilassar - Social housing

Location: 
Carrer Doctor Emili Masriera i Guardiola, 5
08339 Vilassar de Dalt Barcelona
Spain
Year of construction: 
2008
Solution: 
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Photographer: 

Ph 1,3,4 Cristina Pardal

Ph 2,5 Ramón Prat

Authorship of the graphical documentation: 

Frediani Arquitectura