Projects / 4/29/2024

Spare time… on holiday and in the city

Wellbeing, emotion, movement: so many spaces designed for life in the open air, with the contribution of Mapei

Various projects in different countries were completed with Mapei products for outdoor spaces. The creation of a new swimming pool in Italy, a sports center in Budapest, and an amusement park in France: all made the most of innovative materials to ensure durability and functionality.

Swimming pool – Grand Hotel Dino, Baveno (Province of Verbania, Italy)

More than 350 rooms, a congress centre, a vast, well-equipped wellbeing area and a large, lake-front garden with two swimming pools. From this year, the Grand Hotel Dino offers its guests a new outdoor pool built in record time to replace one of the old ones before the start of the summer season. For this project Mapei supplied products to prepare the substrates (EPORIP, PRIMER SN and PLANITOP FAST 330), for waterproofing work (PURTOP 1000, MAPEBAND EASY and MAPELASTIC FOUNDATION) and to install ceramic tiles in the pool (KERAFLEX MAXI S1 ZERO, KERAPOXY EASY DESIGN, and ADESILEX P10 + ISOLASTIC).

Swimming pool – Grand Hotel Dino, Baveno (Province of Verbania, Italy)

City Park, Budapest (Hungary)

A sports centre extending over an area of 36,000 m², featuring courts, pitches and facilities for various sports, was recently completed in the centre of the Hungarian capital. It also includes an area dedicated to teqball, a “cross” between football and ping-pong, first played in Hungary and now increasingly popular abroad. The system chosen to create the surfaces the players use for this sport was from the acrylic resin-based MAPECOAT TNS line, consisting of MAPECOAT TNS PRIMER EPW and MAPECOAT TNS WHITE BASE COAT to prepare the substrates, followed by a coating of MAPECOAT TNS URBAN and then MAPECOAT TNS PROTECTION protective finish. The playing areas were then marked out using MAPECOAT TNS LINE paint.

City Park, Budapest (Hungary)

Vertika rollercoaster, Milizac (France)

To celebrate its 30th anniversary, in 2020 the La Récré Des Trois Curés theme park, in the Department of Finistère (France), added a new ride, the only one of its kind in France. The Vertika rollercoaster is 440 m long and has a dizzying drop of 31 m – the equivalent of an 8-storey building – which enables the train to reach a speed of 83 km/h. The piles that support the structure were anchored to blocks of concrete using MAPEFILL F high performance mortar. This mortar, specifically created for anchoring and sealing machinery and metallic structures, has extremely high flexural and compressive strength and bonds extremely well to iron and concrete.

Vertika rollercoaster, Milizac (France)

“The Container” CrossFit area, Malaga (Spain)

Last year on 3rd October there was the official inauguration in Malaga of “The Container", a 1200 m² space dedicated to CrossFit, a fitness regime originating in the United States and increasingly in vogue amongst sportspeople around the world. Mapei took part in the creation of the coloured surfaces for the area through the supply of MAPECOAT TNS MULTISPORT COMFORT, a highly elastic, multi-layered, acrylic resin-based system in combination with elastic, granular rubber matting. This system enables flooring to be created that mitigates the effect of impact trauma, provides a high level of playing comfort and allows players to change direction quickly and safely, while at the same time maintaining an excellent compromise between balance and slide.

“The Container” CrossFit area, Malaga (Spain)

Promenade, Castiglione della Pescaia (Province of Grosseto, Italy)

Castiglione Della Pescaia is renowned for its long, sandy beaches and beautiful sea. With particular attention to slow tourism and all those activities typical of a seaside resort, the Local City Council launched a redevelopment project for the promenade, which now also features a cycle lane and new, concrete flagstones. Because one of the mandatory requirements of the promenade is that vehicles need to be able to deliver goods to local businesses and beach clubs, the designers decided to use MAPESTONE SYSTEM for the paving package, consisting of MAPESTONE TFB60 mortar to install the concrete flagstones, PLANICRETE latex to make bonding slurry and MAPESTONE PFS 2 mortar to grout the joints.

Apart from its excellent mechanical properties, this system also stands out for its resistance to saline spray and airborne sea-salts, conditions that paving in areas overlooking the sea typically have to withstand.