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Terreal Façades: creative, versatile and
efficient solutions for building envelopes

As rainscreens, sunscreens, for acoustics or as facing bricks, it is ideal for your construction need.
IN RECORDED HISTORY, terracotta
(“baked earth” in Italian) has been the
material used in art and architecture for
sculpture, pottery, bricks, roof shingles
and as an ornamental building material
dating back to the Neolithic Age. In the
modern era, i.e., for over 160 years, Terreal
has been a name that is synonymous with
the terracotta tradition. Its wide use in the
construction industry today is contributed
by creative and innovative solutions for
the building envelope in four aspects,
namely, roofing, structural, cladding and
decoration.

The Light, Penang using Piterak XS
300×1200 mm (Colour: Slate Grey)
Developer/Owner: IJM Land
Architect/Designer: K2LD Architect
Pte Ltd (Singapore Architect)

Melia 2, Gerbang Nusajaya using Zéphir
(Stone Colour, Champagne Red Orange,
Violine and Chocolate Brown)
Developer/Owner: UEM
Architect/Designer: Arkitek Selamat

Why terracotta?
For starters, terracotta is, by its very nature,
a “green product”. Its composites are
neither harmful nor endangered, i.e., not
petroleum-based or sourced from trees.
Being 100% natural, it is eco-friendly - in
fact, rejected or broken clay is recycleable,
i.e., can be crushed and reused. Furthermore,
terracotta gives off permanent, rich earthtone colours that make it an ideal raw
material for exterior walls.
Terreal Façades
In the modern use of terracotta as a
building material component and/or
system, Terreal has taken and incorporated
all of the above advantages and pioneered
in terracotta cladding systems with Terreal
Façades. Combining technology and
tradition, Terreal Façades offer a variety of
advantages, economic and environmental,
that include: (a) high-impact resistance and
easy to install; (b) durability, maintenancefree; (c) Class A fire-rated, i.e., does not
burn; (d) gives buildings warmth and
character; and, (e) work well with other
materials (glass, metal wood).

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Cladding Solutions
For the building envelope, Terreal’s Façade
has a large range of cladding solutions that
include:
s Rainscreens – available in large
dimensions as Piterak® Slim, Piterak®
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XS, Maestral® brands or light and thin
solutions marketed as Breeze® and
Zephir® Evolution.
Sunscreens – barriers against extreme
heat and for optimisation of natural
light, available in a wide variety of
shapes and lengths, from the small
and economical Autan® to the longdimensioned Shamal® sunscreen.
Acoustic claddings – for spaces where
noise levels are regulated, subject to
correction constraints or for comfort,
e.g., swimming pools, theatres, multipurpose halls, offices, universities and
garages.
Facing bricks – line of bricks and brick
slips that offer a wide range of formats
and hues for traditional architectures
as well as contemporary ones.

Note: All of the above is available in a wide
variety of colours, surfaces (smooth, sanded,

ridged) and formats that complement styles
and innovations in architectural form and
function.
Projects Today and Tomorrow
If seeing is believing, perhaps the best
testimony to Terreal Façades is the
extensive portfolio of successfully–
completed projects at home and abroad,
e.g., the Jesselton View Condominium
Kota Kinabalu, The Light Villa Penang
and the Bandar Rimbayu Club House
Kota Kemuning, to name but a few here in
Malaysia. All that, as they say, is history for Terreal, the tomorrow is its latest floor
innovation of 100% terracotta, “Diabolo”, a
unique breakthrough flooring product that
has been submitted for the New Product
Award competition at Archidex, happening
in July this year. Q
More information at www.terreal.com.my