Treatment of exterior facades: CAP Arreghini solutions for construction and architecture
In the world of architecture and design, exterior surfaces, and facades in particular, represent a challenge that is as fascinating as it is complex. Exposure to extreme weather conditions and the need to meet two essential criteria, aesthetic value and long-lasting performance, call for advanced solutions that can meet these requirements without compromise.
As a leader in surface treatments for both interiors and exteriors, CAP Arreghini offers architects a wide range of dedicated products and solutions for the facades of historic and modern buildings, formulated to overcome these challenges.
Innovation and Quality: The Secret Behind CAP Arreghini’s Exterior Solutions
From the beginning, CAP Arreghini has placed strong emphasis on innovation and quality, offering treatments for exterior surfaces, both horizontal and vertical, that withstand even the harshest weather conditions. Thanks to advanced technologies, CAP Arreghini materials ensure durability and high performance, while preserving the visual impact of architectural projects.
The depth and completeness of CAP Arreghini’s range is especially evident in façade treatments, where products must adapt to diverse environmental conditions while maintaining consistently high quality and performance standards.
Siloxane and Acrylic-Siloxane Systems for Restoration
CAP Arreghini’s siloxane and acrylic-siloxane systems are an excellent choice for restoration projects, providing superior protection against weathering.
These formulations are particularly suited for prestigious historical contexts, ensuring long-term façade protection while preserving the aesthetic and cultural value of the building.
Siloxane and Acrylic-Siloxane Paints and Coatings
Siloxane and acrylic-siloxane paints offer a dual action: water-repellence and impermeability. They ensure that masonry remains intact and dry, even in aggressive climates.
Their microporous structure allows moisture to escape, preventing blistering and detachment of plaster.
CAP Arreghini’s siloxane and acrylic-siloxane paints provide optimal results for all types of projects, making them ideal for both new constructions and renovations. They form a durable water-resistant and vapour-permeable barrier, ensuring excellent façade stability over time.
Proper surface preparation is essential to maximise performance and guarantee long-lasting protection.
The Nanotechnology Revolution: Capnanotech
CAP Arreghini’s drive for continuous innovation is embodied in the Capnanotech line, a range of nanotechnology-based solutions designed to improve quality of life in both indoor and outdoor environments. These include thermal insulating paints, anti-mould solutions, and self-cleaning photocatalytic coatings.
Together, these products represent the future of exterior finishes: delivering protection, beauty, energy efficiency, and self-cleaning properties. They allow designers to achieve distinctive results in terms of sustainability and well-being.
Thermal Insulating Paints
CAP Arreghini’s thermal insulating paints are designed to enhance the thermal performance of coatings and improve a building’s energy efficiency.
They contain low-conductivity glass microspheres that reduce heat transfer through exterior walls, keeping indoor environments more stable.
During the summer, they reflect a significant portion of solar radiation, lowering overheating indoors and reducing the need for cooling systems.In the winter, they help retain heat inside, cutting down on heat loss and reducing reliance on heating systems.
This results not only in energy savings but also in lower greenhouse gas emissions and reduced energy costs.
Photocatalytic Paints
Developed by CAP Arreghini, photocatalytic paints use solar energy to activate a process that breaks down airborne pollutants.
They contain a catalyst, typically titanium dioxide, which, when activated by UV light, reacts with atmospheric moisture to convert harmful substances (like nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds) into harmless compounds such as water and carbon dioxide.
This process helps improve outdoor air quality, creating a healthier environment for those living and working nearby.
Additionally, their self-cleaning properties reduce dirt accumulation on surfaces and minimise maintenance needs. Together, thermal insulating and photocatalytic paints offer significant benefits in terms of energy efficiency, environmental sustainability, and human well-being. These solutions mark an important step forward in exterior coatings, reducing environmental impact while improving urban quality of life.
Protecting exterior Plaster
Building facades are constantly exposed to sunlight, humidity, and air pollution. Protecting them through proper and regular maintenance is essential to preserve the integrity of plaster finishes.
Safeguarding plaster ensures the durability, architectural value, and energy efficiency of the building, as well as healthier indoor spaces, improving comfort in every respect.
For long-lasting protection, it is essential to identify the causes of humidity and assess their severity. While not always harmful, excess or persistent moisture can trigger chemical reactions (such as efflorescence or capillary rise) that degrade construction materials and damage plaster.
FASADECAP: Enhancing Colour
The FASADECAP line is the perfect combination of performance and quality.
These professional-grade exterior paints feature high colour resistance, excellent coverage, and filling capacity to mask plaster imperfections. They also ensure strong adhesion across a wide variety of substrates.
Preventing Problems with GRIPCAP
GRIPCAP is CAP Arreghini’s line of primers, designed to prevent adhesion and durability issues in plaster. By addressing the earliest stages of the application cycle, these advanced products consolidate substrates, regulate absorption, and ensure optimal anchoring for subsequent layers. The line includes a wide selection of transparent and pigmented primers, formulated with specific technologies to ensure excellent surface preparation before painting.
The Role of Colour in Architecture
The colour of a façade plays a fundamental role in defining a building’s style and atmosphere. As the most visible element, it creates harmony with the surrounding landscape while preserving the building’s identity. CAP Arreghini offers a vast selection of exterior colour palettes: AREA 115, SPAZIO 100, TUCANO, and the innovative HABITAT 360. These allow designers to create refined and effective colour combinations for any architectural style.
In architectural projects, colour not only defines building identity but must also comply with urban and landscape regulations. In historic centres, for example, facades carry cultural significance, making colour an integral part of heritage. Here, respecting original hues and adopting finishes faithful to historical values is essential.
Similarly, in protected natural areas or sensitive landscapes such as coastal zones, colour must blend harmoniously with the environment, favouring light, neutral shades inspired by local tones: sand, sky blue, Mediterranean white.
In areas without restrictions, designers have greater creative freedom but are encouraged to prioritise harmony between building and context, ensuring visual and formal coherence.
Sustainability: CAP Arreghini’s Ongoing Commitment
Sustainability is at the core of CAP Arreghini’s offering, as demonstrated by the many certifications obtained. Its complete range of solutions and products enhances the exterior surfaces of buildings, ensures the maintenance of technical performance over time, even against the most adverse weather conditions, while above all respecting both the environment and people.
