Escofet has more than 125 years in the field, building dreams, illusions, comfort and design. His latest projects are invited to take ownership of urban spaces to make them our own, personal, cozy and even refined. Reinforced concrete is the basis on which the company is building dreams and modern spaces, using this technique in other components of great innovation and constructive approaches that have broken new ground in the art of building.
The designs of Catalan companies look at different cities in Spain. Construction of the Cultural Center AirSergi made by architects Gòdia, Berta Barrio and Juvillà with Escofet Eloi during 2008 and 2009, stands at El Prat de Llobregat hangar because of the way and imposing structure. The interior houses a permanent exhibition on the air, a restoration workshop, a library, conference and exhibitions. Its location, close to El Prat aeropuesto makes it a meeting point for trade visitors and fans of aeronautical science.
Isler, designed by architect Eduardo Arroyo with Escofet in 2008, is another of their cutting edge designs. ISLERO modular banking is a monolithic piece with several possible combinations that covers the space indefinitely. Made in granite gray cast concrete but compatible with any shade of concrete. Its ergonomics allows various body positions and practice of leisure or work. While responding to their use ISLERO solo collective use responds to the line of adaptability and combination.
TWIG is a banking system that synthesizes the concepts of modularity, interactivity and connectedness. Through them, this product enhances the diversity, fluidity and interactivity among its users. The design of this versatile item to create “meeting places” in the landscape and also suggest new applications in outer space, crimping the boundary between the built environment and public space. Although their weight needs to be anchored in the ground, materials used and the same texture offers the possibility of not conceived as static but invites conversation and shared conversation. The corners of the three arms that make it up have the same geometry and section, which favors the aggregation of the pieces in different contexts and environments and is branching out in the shade of the trees in a garden or a university campus. The architect Alexander Lotersztain Escofet designer with this piece of furniture that has been selected by the Australian International Design Awards 2008 Awards and ADI-FAD Delta 2009.
FLOR is a piece of concrete that comes in two formats and that is coupled through a subtle interplay of similarities and differences. Biomorphic design and radio, enables the combined use of the modules or individual use. The design follows the concepts FLOR banking equality and diversity that inspired the work of architects Mansilla and Tuñón. FLOR was first installed in the courtyard of access to the building of the Library and Archives of the Community of Madrid, in the former brewery “The Eagle”. With this intervention, the architects completed the central area and boosted the meeting place for users of the various institutions that make up the whole.
LINK is a key urban and extremely light yet full of substance and solidity. It is built in two versions: steel, concrete, steel, wood and bamboo. The subtle combination of formal and material turns into a LINK element of balance in the urban landscape. Its structure, which evokes the essence of the classic folding stools, this piece allows the design simple, attractive and reminiscent of the East. Designed by Nahtrang Disseny, the series includes models BANKING LINK, LINK LINK stool and striking wall that serves to stabilize any vertical surface. They all follow the same structure made of steel supports an inverted U-shaped, and admit the possibility of choosing the seat material: concrete or wood.
ZUERA bank, in its two versions, with and without support, is designed by the architects Iñaki Alday and Margarita Jover, for the reclamation project along the river Gallego as it passes through the municipality Aragonese Zuera. This project won the European Prize for Urban Public Space in 2002. The backless benches placed at the level closest to the river, support the flood at the time of thaw, which fertilizes the margins with a specific flora of high ecological value. ZUERA The bank has been installed at River park roads of the Expo Zaragoza 2008, according to the project by the same authors.
The BEACON MOTA is an element of gray concrete with a section in the form of inverted L, which is anchored to the floor with screws embedded in a concrete foundation. Its name comes from the sixth sense that has the word “speck” in the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Language Academy. “Eminence low-rise, natural or artificial, which stands alone in a flat.” The place where you installed justified … The Limit-Beacon, designed by architects Iñaki Alday and Margarita Jover, along with the lighting designer ARTEC3 Maurici Gines, translates into a first series of 880 units of concrete with a mating fixture, manufactured by Indalux to illuminate and mark out the paths of the park’s river the Expo Zaragoza 2008.
Escofet team in collaboration with several architects are responsible for the design of various projects Barceona as the Fira de Barcelona, buckets seats color-the Agbar Tower, the banks of the W Hotel, Tower Gas Station Bon Pastor of the next metro line 9.