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Material Versatility and Panel Engineering: HPL as a High-Performance Solution
HPL Ventilated Facades: Lightness, Design, and Resistance
HPL (High Pressure Laminate) ventilated facades represent the perfect combination for those seeking a tailored aesthetic combined with exceptional durability. VM Group boasts extensive experience in the installation of premium high-pressure laminates (such as Abet Laminati), offering cladding systems that stand the test of time. From educational facilities to multipurpose centers, HPL is the material of choice for lightweight, vibrant, and technologically advanced envelopes.
Performance and Finishes: A Cladding That "Breathes"
HPL is not just a decorative panel, but a structural component capable of ensuring superior thermal and hygrometric insulation.
VM Group's Technical Excellence:
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Customized Fixing Systems: We offer custom installation solutions for every design requirement. From color-matched rivets for a technical and modern look, to concealed glued systems for a clean look that enhances the continuity of the texture.
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Total Weather Resistance: The laminates we install are designed to withstand acid rain, ice, hail, and UV rays. The non-porous surface prevents the absorption of moisture and smog, ensuring vibrant colors for decades.
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Lightweight and Versatile: Thanks to its lighter weight compared to stone materials, HPL is ideal for retrofitting existing structures, allowing for slimmer volumes without overloading the building.
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Minimal Maintenance and Anti-Graffiti: The material's density makes the facade extremely easy to clean and vandal-resistant, a key feature for public and school buildings where the decor must remain intact over time.
A Protected and Stimulating Environment: Design at the Service of Children
Bologna Nursery School: Safety and Color in HPL
For this school complex in Bologna, VM Group created an architectural envelope that focuses on the well-being and safety of children. We chose the versatility of ventilated facades in HPL (High Pressure Laminate), integrating a sophisticated concealed fastening system that eliminates any mechanical protrusions, ensuring smooth and safe surfaces in outdoor recreation areas.
Color Engineering: Hygiene and Active Protection
The project transforms the school into a modern building, where vibrant aesthetics combine with excellent technical performance.
Technical Specifications of the Project:
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Concealed Safety Fixing: The invisible anchoring technology was chosen to avoid exposed metal elements, minimizing the risk of accidental impacts for children during outdoor activities.
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Color and Texture Alternation: The project plays with bright hues and warm wood-effect finishes, creating a welcoming environment that stimulates creativity and fosters learning in a visually stimulating context.
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Integrated Fire Barriers: Consistent with the highest standards, we have inserted fire barriers in the ventilated cavity, ensuring essential passive protection for school buildings.
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Hygiene and Thirty-Year Durability: HPL is naturally resistant to mold, bacteria, and graffiti. Thanks to our thirty years of experience, we have ensured an optimal internal microclimate, protecting the structure from the elements and reducing aesthetic maintenance costs to zero.
Architecture for the Future of New Generations
The Bologna school demonstrates VM Group's ability to translate the needs of public clients into safe and durable technical solutions. We don't just cover walls: we create protected and efficient spaces, where the quality of HPL ensures that the beauty of the first day remains unchanged throughout the young students' school career.
Cutting-edge Material Synergy: Trespa HPL, Santafiora Stone, and Spider Glass Systems
CNA Viterbo Multifunctional Center: The Excellence of Hybrid Housing
The CNA Center project in Viterbo represents a masterful synthesis of façade engineering and institutional design. VM Group coordinated and implemented the installation of a complex hybrid system, integrating 300 square meters of Trespa HPL and 500 square meters of Santafiora stone into a single building.
Coplanarity Engineering: A Dialogue Between Modernity and Tradition
The uniqueness of the project lies in the seamless coexistence of contrasting materials, harmonized through meticulously designed construction nodes.
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Trespa HPL with Industrial Rigour: The HPL panels were installed with an exposed mechanical fastening system using RAL-colored rivets. This choice enhances the building's technological and modern soul, while also ensuring extreme resistance to impact and weathering.
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Concealed Santafiora Stone: In contrast to HPL, the natural stone was installed with an invisible anchoring system. This technique emphasizes the solidity of the volumes and the material's elegance, lending the project an image of stability and institutional prestige.
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Dynamic Transparency Spider Glass: Completing the glass surfaces with Spider Glass systems created large transparent openings that appear to float, allowing natural light to enter without weighing down the façade design.
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Thickness Optimization: The main technical challenge was ensuring perfect coplanarity between materials of different thicknesses. Thanks to our expertise, the transition between stone and HPL is flawless, eliminating thermal bridges and ensuring superior energy efficiency.
VM Group: Technical Partner for Institutional Identities
The construction of the CNA headquarters confirms VM Group as a leader in multi-material façade management. We have transformed an association headquarters into an architectural landmark that reflects the values of innovation and solidity of Italian craftsmanship and small businesses.
Strength and Insulation: Parklex HPL at the Service of Education Excellence
Egna Ora High School (BZ): High-Performance School Buildings
In the challenging climate of Bolzano, VM Group oversaw the construction of approximately 450 square meters of ventilated façade for the Egna Ora High School. The project was designed to rigorously meet the typical demands of high-altitude school buildings: high attendance, the need for absolute durability, and stringent thermal requirements.
Technological Wood Engineering: Indoor Protection and Comfort
The use of advanced composite materials combined the aesthetic warmth of wood with the indestructible resistance of high-pressure laminates.
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Parklex Composite Panels: We chose Parklex for its unique ability to retain the natural appearance of wood while being completely resistant to atmospheric agents, frost, and UV rays, guaranteeing decades of surface longevity.
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Exposed Mechanical Fastening System: The installation with visible fasteners was designed to ensure impeccable structural stability in the presence of strong winds and snow loads. This solution also facilitates maintenance and inspection operations, essential for the management of public buildings.
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Shield Against Temperature Changes: The combination of the ventilated cavity and the high-density insulation layer ensures excellent energy performance. The system protects the structure from harsh winter temperatures and overheating in summer, optimizing comfort for students and teachers.
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Resilience and Safety: Each construction point, refined with our thirty years of experience, has been designed to be "school-proof": impact-resistant and easy-to-clean surfaces that maintain the school's decorum intact over time.
Experience and Professionalism in Critical Environments
The construction of the Egna Ora High School confirms VM Group's ability to operate as a reliable technical partner in areas where the quality of installation makes the difference between an aging building and one that defies time. We transformed a school into a fully protected facility, where energy efficiency meets the beauty of natural design.
The Elegance of Detail: Ventilated Facade in HPL
Hotel Carlton Ferrara – Prestigious Restyling
In the heart of Ferrara, the renovation of the Hotel Carlton represents VM Group's excellence in the high-end hospitality sector. The design challenge was to completely renew the structure's image, ensuring a high-quality aesthetic impact that would interact with the historic urban context, projecting it towards timeless modernity.
Engineering Purity: The Value of Invisible Fixing
For this restyling, we chose to eliminate all visual interference, allowing the material and light to be the sole protagonists of the facade.
Technical Specifications of the Project:
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Glued Concealed System: We opted for an advanced engineering solution with invisible fastening. This technique eliminates any visible mechanical fastening elements, ensuring a fluid surface that enhances the quality of the HPL laminate.
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Precision and Absolute Flatness: Thanks to our thirty years of experience, we managed the installation with meticulous attention to alignment. The result is a perfectly flat surface that gives the hotel an image of order, rigor, and contemporary luxury.
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Superior Acoustic and Thermal Insulation: Beyond aesthetics, the ventilated façade acts as a protective filter that drastically reduces urban noise and optimizes thermal management, significantly improving indoor comfort for guests.
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Durability and Resistance: The HPL envelope guarantees extreme resistance to atmospheric agents and smog, ensuring that the hotel's "new skin" maintains its brilliance and technical performance for decades, without the need for maintenance.
VM Group: Strategic Partner for Excellence in Hospitality
The redevelopment of the Hotel Carlton confirms VM Group's ability to operate in contexts where details make the difference. We transformed a hospitality facility into a landmark of style and technology, demonstrating that HPL, when handled with engineering mastery, is the ideal material for enhancing the prestige and efficiency of large hotel complexes.
Ferrara: Luxury Private Residences with Advanced Design
Retractable HPL: When Technology Elevates the Concept of "Home"
This residential project in Ferrara demonstrates how the choice of advanced materials and elite installation systems can redefine the concept of contemporary living. VM Group oversaw the design and installation of a ventilated HPL façade with a hidden glued fastening system, a solution that eliminates all visible mechanical fastenings to enhance the purity of the forms.
Material Heat Engineering: Aesthetics That Never Age
The challenge was to combine the visual appeal of wood with the indestructible durability of high-pressure laminates.
Technical Specifications of the Project:
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Hi-Res Wood Effect Finish: We used HPL panels with hyper-realistic grain, giving the residential complex a natural and timeless elegance, without the limitations of real wood.
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Structural Gluing System: The absence of visible rivets or screws allows for a fluid reading of the volumes. The pinpoint precision of the alignments, the fruit of our thirty years of experience, ensures perfect flatness that enhances the architectural design.
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Thermal and Hygrometric Comfort: The structure benefits from a cutting-edge insulation system that, combined with natural ventilation, ensures constant internal temperatures throughout the year, eliminating thermal bridges and condensation.
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Long-Term Investment: Transforming a private home with a ventilated envelope means protecting the masonry from temperature fluctuations and humidity, ensuring a long-lasting property and a significantly higher market value.
VM Group: Technological Craftsmanship for the Home
The Ferrara project confirms that ventilated facades are not just for large complexes, but are the ideal tool for designer private villas. With VM Group, technology becomes invisible to make room for beauty, offering owners a protected, efficient home with a unique character.
Trigoria Multipurpose Center: Bold Design and Color Identity
Vibrant Blue HPL and Invariable Technology: The Capital's Technological Shield
In Trigoria, Rome, VM Group created a striking architectural envelope for a new multipurpose center. The bold color scheme combines with the rigorous engineering of the ventilated HPL façade, creating a building that stands out and defies Roman climate with elegance and technology.
Color Engineering: The Rivet as a Style Detail
The challenge was to maintain the saturation of the vibrant blue while protecting the structure with a rapid and ultra-secure assembly system.
Technical Specifications of the Project:
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UV-Resistant Saturation: We selected ultra-high-density HPL panels, designed to withstand the capital's strong solar radiation. The blue will remain bright and deep for decades, without color shifting or surface degradation.
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"Tone-on-Tone" Mechanical Fixing: To combine maximum structural safety with visual clarity, we used a system of exposed rivets painted in a coordinated RAL color. This solution makes the technical fixing nearly invisible, transforming it into a micro-detail that highlights the precision of the installation.
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Thermal Protection for the Roman Climate: Thanks to the natural ventilation cavity, the building drastically reduces summer heat buildup. The system protects the interior spaces, ensuring immediate energy savings and superior indoor comfort for the center's users.
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Resistance and Minimal Maintenance: The non-porous surface of the HPL guarantees complete resistance to smog and atmospheric agents. With VM Group's thirty years of experience, we delivered a project that requires minimal cleaning, maintaining the prestige of the company brand.
VM Group: We Create Urban Landmarks
The Trigoria project confirms VM Group's ability to manage projects where bold design requires superior technical expertise. We didn't just clad a multipurpose center: we created an urban landmark that combines the liveliness of color with the solidity of an excellent ventilated façade.
McDonald's Rome: High-Traffic Design and Durability
The Warmth of Wood, the Technology of Laminate: HPL for Retail Excellence
For the McDonald's store in Rome, VM Group created an advanced HPL shell with a wood-effect finish, implementing a concealed fastening system. The project perfectly fits the brand's new concepts, which seek to combine a warm and familiar atmosphere with the need for indestructible, high-performance surfaces.
Welcoming Engineering: Natural Aesthetics and Zero Maintenance
The challenge in a retail context of this size is ensuring the store's image remains impeccable despite the constant flow of customers and exposure to the elements.
Technical Specifications of the Project:
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Concealed Fastening System: We chose an invisible fastening system to enhance the cleanliness of the slats and panels. This allows for a seamless surface that enhances the wood-effect grain, eliminating any visual mechanical disturbances.
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Impact and Scratch Resistance: High-pressure laminate (HPL) was selected for its superior mechanical properties. It is a resilient material, ideal for high-traffic areas, capable of withstanding impacts and vandalism without requiring the maintenance cycles of natural wood.
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Integration of Sunshade Slats: In addition to the façade cladding, we designed the sunshade systems, ensuring complete material continuity. This element not only defines the store's modern design, but also effectively shields from solar radiation, improving internal thermal comfort.
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Precision and Millimetric Flatness: Thanks to our thirty years of experience, we ensured perfect alignment between the different modules, making the building a model of structural efficiency and visual appeal for the Roman restaurant scene.
VM Group: Partner of Major International Brands
The creation of the Rome store confirms VM Group as a reliable partner for major players in the retail sector. We transformed a functional necessity into a lasting design project, demonstrating that HPL is the key to ageless commercial architecture that conveys quality from the very first glance.
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