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Ductal® Architecture Brochure (pdf, 12.74 MB)

Bring your ideas to life with high performance facade, roofing and envelope systems. Like main or secondary skins, they bend and adapt to the most complex shapes and aesthetic requirements while providing durable, high-impact resistance.

Create decorative and protective facade elements, latticework, perforated facades and urban furniture that bring innovation to life in a wide range of textures, finishes and colors.

Ductal® can be cast into organic shapes, or cut into clean angles. Its mineral nature allows it to add depth and shadow, or simply blend in.

1. Aesthetics

In addition to their superior impact resistance and leak proofing, thin, lightweight Ductal® envelope elements bring enhanced durability. This means more comfort, with the added advantage of the building envelope’s material efficiency translating into increased leasable floor area and lower operational costs in projects of every kind.

Due to the specific fibers used, along with the packing density of the material, Ductal® Envelope differs from other fiber reinforced solutions by retaining its mechanical performances throughout the full service life of the building.

2. Performance

The high durability, resilience, ductility and low porosity of Ductal® not only results in improved energy efficiency (heat and solar control), but an extended life cycle of up to a possible 100-year service life. That’s almost five times longer than with traditional concrete! Aesthetics are also preserved longer, contributing further to reduced operational costs.

Its light weight and versatility means that off-site manufacturing, combined with an optimized supply chain, contribute to lowering the material’s overall carbon footprint.

When it’s time for a change, Ductal® can be recycled using a very low energy process, wherein the material is ground up – much like in a giant pepper grinder.

3. Sustainability

There’s very little that Ductal® can’t do, and our team can guide you every step of the way in creating almost any sort of element you can think of, including:

Tailor-made precast façades
Large-scale standardized panels
“Brise Soleil” and perforated facades
Prefabricated unitized façade systems
Urban furniture

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Great Mosque of Algeria

The mosque combines modernity and authentic design Ductal® was chosen for the facades around the minaret, the roofing of the dome of the prayer hall, the inner courtyard and the covering of the other buildings.

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Fondation Louis Vuitton

The Canadian-American architect Franck Gehry, laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1989, has designed a building swathed in an array of vast glass sails (large glass surfaces) and consisting of concrete facades with geometric shapes as original as they are complex known as icebergs... Icebergs dressed in Ductal® Envelope, using a unique manufacturing process that has received an award...

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Yuhang Opera House

Yuhang Opera House is a 70000M2 performance venue, nestled between the bustling city of Hangzhou and the calm shores of East Lake . This new building forms the heart of a new cultural node in Yuhang, a fast-growing district in the metropolis of Hangzhou.

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Zhuhai Jinwan Civic Art

Designed as a hub of contemporary creativity within one of the world’s most dynamic regions, the Zhuhai Jinwan Civic Art Centre is located at the heart of Jinwan district’s Western EcologicalNew Town where the new Zhuhai Airport Intercity railway provides direct connections with Zhuhai’s city center, its airport and Hengqindistrict, as well as Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Macau and Hong Kong via...

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Shenzhen Yue Art Gallery

Shenzhen Yue Art Gallery is a renovation project, based on the original Jinwei Brewery District in Luohu of Shenzhen, China. Originally a cans production building, the north portal of the brewery district has been redesigned by BLACKHome Architects.

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Kenitra Train Station

Ductal® adorns the new train station in Kenitra, one of the strategic points of Morocco’s high-speed rail route between Tangiers and Kenitra, and a new symbol of economic development in the country.

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EHPAD Rue Blanche

The agency of Philippon-Kalt Architectes-Urbanistes was entrusted with the renovation and expansion of a unique care facility (EHPAD), exclusively dedicated to people suffering from Alzheimer's.

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Belleville Daycare

The construction of the Belleville Daycare, designed by architect Bruno Rollet, proves that Ductal® is part of a reflection on green building design.

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RATP Bus Center

The semi-flowable nature of Ductal® Envelope facilitated the pouring of 3D panels with a fine yet nubby Lego®-style texture. Only 3 cm thick, their lightness are made for fast installation and adjusting.

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Community Center

The city of Sedan entrusted architect Philippe Gibert with the construction of the Torcy-Cités Community Centre. The façade was covered with perforated panels of Ductal® Envelope, allowing freedom from the limitations of natural lighting and glazing protection.

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Vente Privée headquarters

Commissioned directly by venteprivée.com’s CEO Antoine Grangon for architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte, the building known as Le Vérone proudly shows off a lattice façade in white Ductal®, visible along the A1 highway across from the Stade de France, on the outskirts of Paris.

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DUMBO Townhouse

“DUMBO” (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass), a historic neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York has been transformed in recent decades. Today, the former industrial zone is a bustling, mixed-use area filled with galleries, shops and lofts.

1. Aesthetics

2. Performance

3. Sustainability

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