The art of recycling, of knowing how to recover and reinvent something, giving it new usefulness, is one of the most admirable abilities of modern man. It is in Man’s nature to continually consume all kinds of objects and properties.
In architecture, there are two different recycling techniques: restructuring includes all the alterations that aim at a radical transformation of a building and its components by changing its style and formal elements; conservative restoration aims to recover and conserve the functionality of a building without changing its basic structure, disregarding the use of any possible foreign element.
To restore an environment and to give it new life whilst preserving its original features can, however, be more complicated than actually demolishing it and starting anew. It requires that, first of all the designers and then the professional workers pay great attention to the original volumes whilst defining the new architectural spaces.
To meet this kind of need, the most appropriate choice is to use flexible materials such as Ideal Work’s cement polymers Microtopping® and Nuvolato Architop®, which can quickly be applied over existing surfaces with just 3-4 millimeters of material, or the elegant Sassoitalia® Vloer, perfect for modernising buildings with a rustic and yet sophisticated style.