For the 41st edition of Cersaie, the international trade fair for ceramics and bathroom furnishings, to be held in Bologna from 23 to 27 September 2024, L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui is offering a series of articles on the use of ceramic materials in architecture and innovation in the field. Head to Milan to discover a project to renovate the façade of a 1960s building that celebrates Italian ceramics.

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Visible from Piazza Erculea, in the heart of Milan, this eight-storey building, built in 1967 and adorned with green ceramic tiles with bevelled edges, needed renovation work on its façade, including repairs to the projecting balconies, which were suffering from a lack of waterproofing, and above all to the ceramic tile cladding typical of Milanese architecture in the second half of the 20th century.

In 2018, following a diagnosis that revealed severe deterioration in the substrate holding the tiles to the building’s main façade, making it impossible to restore the original ceramic tiles, Milanese architect Gioacchino Pirrello, in charge of the project, chose to reproduce the moving appearance of the original façade. The architect turned to the glazed stoneware cladding tiles from the Flauti range, produced by the Italian company Ceramica Vogue. Alternating two three-dimensional tiles and one flat tile (5×20 cm each), with a glazed finish, the use of the collection allows the building to retain a strong architectural identity within the urban fabric of Milan.

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Register now at www.cersaie.it to visit the Cersaie show (23-27 September) and discover, the Ceramica Vogue stand, among others (Pad. 30 Stand A58-B57).