Cosentino's creative finishes are a playground for architects
Brand story by Emma Moore
Cantoria (Almería), Espagne
06.02.24
From Missouri to Madrid, Cosentino's high-quality sustainable surfaces offer architects a wide diversity of creative and functional choices, enabling their elaborate visions to spring into reality.
Cosentino’s Dekton is a material primed for use outside on facades as much as inside as countertops. It can be customised in form, colour and design to help shape the architecture of buildings
Cosentino’s Dekton is a material primed for use outside on facades as much as inside as countertops. It can be customised in form, colour and design to help shape the architecture of buildings
בWe approach each project as a tailor-made suit’ says Beatriz Quintana, a facades project manager at Cosentino, referencing the way in which its ultra-compacted surface material, Dekton, can flex in colour, texture, finish, thickness, fitting method and form to creatively clad buildings and bring artistic flourish to functional facades.
Cosentino works closely and collaboratively with architects and there is certainly something of a Savile Row mentality about the process, once the full scope of the material is unleashed in an architect’s studio. ‘We looked at the materials and saw that, yes, we can control the graduation of the colour from dark at the bottom to light,’ says Ron Arad joyfully of the gentle fade he was able to build into the feet of the iconic ToHa Tower in Tel Aviv.
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Dekton Domoos
Cosentino
At the University of Missouri’s stadium, contrasting textures are used in the Dekton tiled entrance to create a dynamic pattern, while the Mahogany skyscraper in Vancouver showcases a calacatta-like design
At the University of Missouri’s stadium, contrasting textures are used in the Dekton tiled entrance to create a dynamic pattern, while the Mahogany skyscraper in Vancouver showcases a calacatta-like design
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Dekton Aura
Cosentino
Others might select from the existing palette of Dekton finishes but apply the material with originality across a build. Populous Architects created a diamond pattern with textural contrast by combining matte Domoos and mirror effect Spectra in its design for the University of Missouri stadium entrance, and Site Lines Architecture, who took on the Mahogany skyscraper in Vancouver, selected the elegant Calacatta-like Aura 15 from Dekton’s broad selection of marble-inspired designs and unified the surfaces inside the lobby and outside.
Mendoza+Simal Architects, meanwhile, took advantage of the ease and precision with which Dekton can take on shape in their renovation of the Gunni & Trentino showroom in Madrid. Using the Popular Warm finish of Dekton, they created a ventilated facade in a strikingly sculptural honeycomb arrangement. It was a design that was fed by the technical and visual flexibility of the material.
The Madrid showroom of interior design brand Gunni and Trentino has a creative facade made from tessellated Dekton slabs arranged in a honeycomb pattern
The Madrid showroom of interior design brand Gunni and Trentino has a creative facade made from tessellated Dekton slabs arranged in a honeycomb pattern
×Dekton’s magnetism indeed lies in the fact that it ticks all the important boxes of durability, easy maintenance, ease of application and sustainability but keeps creative opportunity wide open. It not only enables the suit to be custom-fitted to a building, but inspires the design with its adaptable colour and sculptural potential.
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