Portfolio of Mapei Projects

Pytloun Boutique Hotel

Prague (Czech Republic)

An innovative system by Mapei to install LVT in the showers.

The new Pytloun Boutique Hotel is located in the heart of Prague, overlooking the famous Wenceslas Square. The hotel occupies the third to the seventh floors of an historic building designed at the beginning of the 1900’s as a shopping centre, before becoming the Hotel Majestic (which later changed its name to the Družba Hotel) and then a branch of the Česká spořitelna bank. The Pytloun Hotels chain decided to invest almost 28 million Euros and convert the building into a luxury 56-room hotel equipped with all the creature comforts and technology imaginable as well as a magnificent view of the city from its panoramic viewing terrace.


LVT ALSO USED IN THE SHOWERS
Over the course of the redevelopment work lasting ten months, Mapei products were also used inside the Pytloun Boutique Hotel in Prague. For example, LVT (luxury vinyl tiles) planks and tiles by Moduleo IVC were chosen to cover the walls, floors and ceilings in many areas of the hotel and Mapei systems were used to both install the LVT and to prepare the substrates prior to installation.

For example, SHOWER SYSTEM 4 LVT3 was chosen for the showers, a system which may be applied on both new and old substrates, and even on ceramic tiles and stone, as long as they are well bonded to the substrate.

The uneven areas in the substrate were firstly levelled off with PLANIPREP 4 LVT ready-mixed, acrylic resin-based smoothing and levelling compound in water dispersion.

The surfaces were then waterproofed with MONOLASTIC one-component, cementitious waterproofing mortar in combination with MAPEBAND rubber tape, which was applied over the expansion joints.

The LVT covering was bonded with ULTRABONDECO MS 4 LVT WALL high performance, silylated polymer-based adhesive, specific for bonding LVT, SPC and rigid LVT to floors and walls. Very tough and highly resistant to shear loads, this product is suitablefor floors exposed to direct sunlight or subjected to intense mechanical loads or, as in this case, for areas subjected to the constant presence of water (restaurant kitchens, showers,etc.).

Thanks to the use of SHOWERSYSTEM 4 LVT³, installation of the LVT was easier, a barrier impermeable to moisture was created and the surfaceswhere the system was used have particularly high performance characteristics.

Sapphire Residential Complex

Berlin – Germany

This exclusive residential complex, designed by the famous architect Daniel Libeskind, rises up in the Mitte district of the German capital. Its silver and bluish façade sparkles like a sapphire.

The complex is divided into 73 separate apartments, with balconies and elegant features and finishes. These include 3600 m² of 2 and 3-layer engineered wooden flooring installed with a Mapei system that guarantees its functionality and durability, and also meets the requirementsof the client who specified theuse of certified, solvent-free products with low emission of volatile organic compounds.

To guarantee the flatness of the substrates, they were primed with ECO PRIM T PLUS and then smoothed over with ULTRAPLAN ECO PLUS*.

MAPETEX VLIES* isolating membrane was placed over the expansion joints to create a decoupled surface, before installing the wooden flooring with ULTRABOND ECO S940 1K one-component, solvent-free, sililated polymer-based adhesive.

*These products are distributed by Mapei GmbH (Germany).

Gaggenau Showroom

Chengdu – China

Gaggenau Hausgeräte, a German manufacturer of high-end home appliances, opened their fourth showroom in China in the financial district of Chengdu, a major hub for the economy of southern China.

Thespace, purposely designed with an air of elegance and full of references to the Black Forest and traditional Chinese culture, reproduces the setting for a kitchen and dining room.

Wood flooring was installed over anarea of around 300 m².
Firstly, the concrete substrate was treated with PRIMER G synthetic resin-based primer in water dispersion and then levelled with ULTRAPLAN ultra rapid-hardening skimming compound.

The wooden planks were then installed in a herring bone pattern with ULTRABOND P909 2K two-component, solvent-free polyurethane adhesive with very low emission of volatile organic compounds (VOC). It features ease of application, excellent rib stability and high bonding strength to all substrates, including the non absorbent ones.

Hyatt Place

Frankfurt – Germany

The 4-star Hyatt Place Hotel is situatednear Frankfurt Airport and is thefirst hotel in the chain to have openedin Germany. The interior design isthe creation of JOI-Design and particularcare was taken to ensure theguests of the hotel were surroundedby comfort and tranquillity. The carpetsin the corridors and rooms werechosen with these requirements inmind and have felt backing to guaranteeexcellent soundproofing. To install this type of floor covering itwas decided to use ULTRABOND ECO 140, a hard-set adhesive withvery low emission of volatile organiccompounds (VOC). This product wasalso chosen because the client hadspecified the use of eco-sustainablematerials, which enabled the hotel tobe awarded LEED Silver certification.The adhesive, which later evolvedinto ULTRABOND ECO TX1, is indeed certified EMICODE EC1 PLUS by GEV and also carries the Blauer Engellogo which, on the German market,is used to identify products that havevery low impact on the environment.

Westin Perth Hotel

Perth - Australia

The new five-star Westin Perth Hotel has 368 rooms and 28 luxury suites, a restaurant, a spa centre, a swimming pool, a fitness centre, a ballroom and various meeting rooms.

Various types of textile flooring were installed in many of the rooms, the lobby, the lifts, the ballroom and in various service areas with ULTRABOND ECO 170 adhesive with high initial tack and extended open time (now available in a new version with an improved formula, ULTRABONDECO TX2) and with ULTRABOND ECO TACK, an acrylic tackifier dispersed in water, which is also suitable for the installation of soundproofing mats under the textile coverings.

Vinyl flooring was also installed in some ofthe rooms using ULTRABOND ECOV4 SP, a high-performance, universal adhesive in water dispersion specifically developed for floors subjected to static and dynamic loads, including intense loads.

In other areas wooden floors were installed using ULTRABOND ECO S95.