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Columbia University Campus, Harlem, New York.
This ambitious and stimulating project originated in an area of New York undergoing substantial industrial redevelopment, and the fifteen thousand cladding surface pieces have been entirely conceived and assembled in Italy.
To do so, Edilbeton Perugia had to adapt its manufacturing process to provide innovative solutions, creating high-quality concrete structures at a distant location from the production site while ensuring sustainability and excellent performance.
The project designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop required approximately fifteen thousand cladding surface pieces. These unique yet essential pieces made from GFRC included spherical round components with manual finishing. The production used numerically controlled machines for smoothing and perforating the created components, adhering to exceptionally tight and non-standard tolerance values for concrete structures.
GFRC
Edilbeton Perugia is a leading European producer of GFRC (Glass Fiber Reinforced Concrete), a material widely used for cladding on ambitious buildings since it’s ductile, formal, resistant, and flexible.
