• It is the largest urban development in terms of glass ever carried out in Spain and in Europe
• SUPERDUAL-T® is a product of Vitro Cristalglass designed expressly for this project

The new corporate home of Telefónica, District C, houses its twelve thousand employees.

Located to the north of the Spanish capital, and with a unique stylistic identity, the project, built according to the tenets of architectural sustainability, is an enormous business campus clad in glass and crowned by the biggest canopy of solar panels in Europe.

Telefónica’s new City of Communications, with its 140,000 square meters of glazed surfaces in the façades, is now the largest urban development in terms of glass ever carried out in Spain and in Europe.

Officially opened on 8 October by their majesties the king and queen of Spain, the project was recently awarded the International Prize in the XI International Biennial of Argentina, BA07.

The project, designed by the prestigious architect Rafael de La-Hoz, includes a façade formed by a double external glass skin connected to the interior façade via ribs of structural glass.

Rafael de La-Hoz wanted to create an abstract, transparent box, like an ice cube, and chose for this a screenprinted glass with black and white dots.

Vitro Cristalglass presented a range of glass which fit perfectly with the wishes of the architect, and the chosen product was SUPERDUAL-T® combined with MULTIPACT® over extra-clear glass and SOLARLUX® Supernatural 70/40.

SUPERDUAL-T® is a product of Vitro Cristalglass designed expressly for this project. Its development broke former barriers and enabled a double visual effect to be obtained. Looking at the façade from outside it appears to be totally white, thanks to the multitude of tiny white dots applied to the glass; from inside and thanks to the optical effect, these dots are hardly visible, permitting total visibility through the glass.

Façades with SUPERDUAL-T® glass enable substantial energy savings thanks to its optimal solar factor.

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