Partners: Roca

Roca is a leading global bathroom brand, active in over 135 markets, with 68 factories operating in 18 countries. Employing a design ethos based on creativity and technology, Roca’s contemporary ranges offer inspirational and achievable bathroom solutions.

Roca has always been committed to design and innovation, marketing cutting-edge products that help individuals create a unique bathroom space. The company’s ongoing research and commitment to provide complete bathroom solutions for now as well as the future emphasises its position as market leader.

Roca’s approach to design has always been to look forward and create bathroom designs and solutions for the future through state of the art innovation and technology. As a company Roca invests heavily in the design of its products in all its lines of business, with special emphasis on orientation towards customers and the goal of improving their comfort and quality of life. This is a commitment to the consumer that goes beyond merely producing and marketing high-quality products. Roca analyses the needs, tastes, lifestyles and socio-cultural tendencies manifested in society, using the results of this research to adapt its products and services to the new expectations that emerge in the market.

In line with this philosophy, Roca also created the Jump the Gap International Design Competition in conjunction with the Barcelona Design Centre. - www.jumpthegap.net. Its purpose is to motivate as well as promote the creation of innovative bathroom solutions. To conceive concepts which overcome existing prejudices about bathroom design and provide a platform for - ”designing today for tomorrow’s projects”. Its an important launch platform for young talent from around the world.

With the continual support of research, Roca is creating a future where design and innovation are united to achieve users’ well being. Roca also works with prestigious designers, architects and interior designers such as Moneo, Chipperfield, Herzog & de Meuron, Benedito, Giugiaro or Schmidt & Lackner among others. All of this has made Roca the referential global brand it is today in the creation of bathroom spaces.

Roca is also committed to sustainability, producing environmentally friendly products that help reduce water and energy consumption. All single lever taps are fitted with Roca’s Eco Disc which reduces water consumption by up to 50%, as well as saving energy with its advanced temperature regulator. Additional eco solutions include flow regulators for shower heads, low capacity baths and basins, the Roca Dual Flush WC system (including new super eco 4.5/3 litre cisterns) and more recently the award winning W+W. An all-in-one washbasin and WC, W+W incorporates ‘water-reuse’ technology, using waste water from the basin to fill the WC cistern.