Vines The Secret

Secrets The Vine Cancun Resort & Spa in Cancun is an elegant holiday destination servings adults only. Situated in a beach area destroyed in a hurricane in 2005, the hotel was rebuilt to be hurricane resistant - requiring 5-6 mm thick glass with lamination and double glazing. Rockwell Group designed intricate printed effects for several exterior and interior glass walls and features. Originally, screen printing was used, but it was quickly found to be inadequate.

Switching to digital ceramic printing, using a Dip-Tech Digital In-Glass Printer, proved the perfect solution. The main façade and the restaurant and spa were printed in a subtle gray scale with Dip- Tech Spectrum Inks. In the guest room bathrooms, the bath and shower walls were also printed in gray scale, using unique Dip-Tech Etch Ink, which creates the privacy effects of etched grass with more subtlety and a cleaner and safer process.

ARCHITECT

Rockwell Group, NY

GLASS PRINTING

PVA Vitro

PRINTED AREA

1823 m2 External

10,630 m2 Internal

NUMBER OF PANELS

312 External

3949 Internal

TYPE OF GLASS

5-6mm laminated glass

COMPLETION

2012

PHOTOGRAPHS

Rockwell Group