The renovation project of the “Palacio de Hierro” in Perisur (near Mexico City) has underlined how the top-level ability of planning and the profound technical  know-how of Aliva can guarantee extreme flexibility and precision to the complex architectural project aimed at remodelling the existing building, built in the 60s, with a precise intent to give it a new institutional state-of-the-art image and a distinct personal character.
The original building frame presented a very particular geometric volumetry, making the radical transformation and the total expression of the new project particularly difficult.  The solution adopted has foreseen the realization of a perimetric frame close to the old construction, with the purpose to support a new independent volumetry from the original,  cladded with material of a different typology by using a support structure, flexible to the expansion of the frame and panels, allowing a mechanical fastening.
The architectural idea was based on the creation of a “moving” façade profile: curves and crystal waves with different radii confluent at the main entrance, where they transform into a light “veil” that lets you catch sight of a second skin in wood, with parallel forms to the original ones.  Here the grandeur of the building is reduced to an entrance on a human scale.  At the back of the building the second skin appears, that merges with the crystal waves of the previous one.
The structure used to support the façade components is ALI M, which is part of the ALIVA Gres range.
This structure, developed to fasten slabs of porcelain stoneware gres, by means of a series of fitted accessories and thanks to its great versatility of use,  has been re-designed and verified for the specific purpose.