The Black House in Madrid

Brightness reference value or TSR value: ClimateCoating^® also works in black.

The “black house” in Holland has already become a household term: you paint a house black – and there are no cracks, bubbles or other damage. And for years. Since spring 2014, Spain’s capital has been home to the “Black House” of Madrid. The building is located at Calle de Manual Tovar 42 / corner of Calle Salcedo and it houses, among others, the Urban Lab Madrid. Here, approx. 2,000 m² of clinker facade were coated with ClimateCoating^® in black – at a time when people were still talking about the brightness value.

But regardless of whether it’s the brightness value or the TSR value (“Total Solar Reflectance”) – ClimateCoating^® breaks through traditional thought patterns. You can call it “the white black”, you can leave it alone. Remarkable: a black facade does not necessarily have to mean heating up and destruction if you decide to use ClimateCoating^®.

Speaking of the TSR value: ClimateCoating^® also reflects the UV part of the solar radiation (SOL = UV + VIS + IR) only to a modest extent, around 10%. Thanks to the hollow ceramic beads, however, this has no effect. Thus, the expert comes to the conclusion that ClimateCoating^® is more than just paint. Speaking of color: the 80 window cavities with aluminum cladding were painted in 18 different shades with ClimateCoating^®.

Pharmacy in Witten

Economical and energy-efficient renovation. The use of ClimateCoating^® for the modernisation freed up the money for a new granny annexe.

The renovated building of the Central Apotheke in Witten has become a jewel. The facade coating with the thermoceramic membrane technology ClimateCoating^® ThermoProtect applied by the painting company Fox & Fox protects against summer heat and heat loss in winter. ClimateCoating^® ThermoProtect was also used for the medicinal herbs painted by Dortmund artist Denis Klatt. The paint is very durable and also dirt repellent.

Michael Hillebrecht, creative head of the Wellmess project group, Witten, bases his concepts strictly on the criteria of economy and energy efficiency. For this reason, he decided to use a combination of energy-saving paint, a combined heat and power unit and photovoltaics to generate electricity on the roof for this project. During the partial conversion, a residential unit was created in the basement.

The pictures show the facade in the first year after completion. The energy certificate issued by Berlin-based DIMaGB Energieberatung for the energy-efficiently renovated building makes it clear what energy efficiency means, even in a modernised old building: “everything is in the green”.

Cost-effectiveness in this project means: high benefit at justifiable expense and a manageable payback period. The money saved on investments in the facade through the use of ClimateCoating^® was used to create an apartment. Income accrues to the owner from rental and electricity remuneration.