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Operators in charge of building the Auditorium and Convention Centre located in the port, have begun putting polycarbonate tubes of various colors that cover the building in the area of the great hall.
The tubes, which will take an area of 1,570 square feet, totaling 31,086 meters linear, are of different colors and the same format as the pieces that will be 700 square meters of pergolas on terraces of the building.
These tubes, made in various colors, totaling 45 linear kilometers.
The whole building has a skin of high-tech plastics, recalls José Vicente Albaladejo, Councillor for Infrastructure, for whom treatment of the facades designed by Selgas and Cano will be a key to the success of a building that is now a reference in the national architecture.
The architects have managed to use the enormous benefits that plastics bring the art lighting for buildings, as they begin to take on avant-garde architecture and that makes our auditorium in a building studied by experts from around the world, according Albaladejo.
Plastic skin that technology has made from 60 tons of plastic produced in the Sabic plant in Cartagena and processed in an industry in Milan in which the copolymers were prepared thermo plastic lining the facade.
The exterior part is made of a translucent base of 2,155 square meters of strips of poly acrylic and other 2,765 meters in the inner lining.
At the junction between the great room area and the rest of the building have been installed two dividing walls ETF.
This high-tech plastic is an alternative to glass used in some iconic buildings like the Water Cube of Beijing Olympic Games.
It is 100 times lighter than glass, more insulation and highly resistant to ultraviolet rays.
These walls, orange, has 338 square meters and large installation made it necessary for the support of three cranes.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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