Size / 94,415m2
Client / ConsejerÃa de Sanidad de la Comunidad de Madrid
Awards:
2015 The International Architecture Award - Chicago Athenaeum.
2014 The International Award AADAIH-IFHE to the Architectural Quality in Healthcare Buildings - Buenos Aires, Argentina. The 3th place.
2012 COAM Distinction
2012 Wan Awards Health Care - Shortlisted
2012 Arquitectura Plus Award - Shortlisted
2012 Design & Health International Academy Awards - Shortlisted
2012 Roland Letter Award to the best corporate image
Our recently built hospitals, as health systems, (effectively take care of the needs of the citizens, but they do so in an unnecessarily dramatic and sometimes depressive architectural space. Their proven effectiveness is the cause of their repetitiveness in such a way that for over a quarter of a century they all have been alike, or they have been perceived to be so.
We propose to transform the citizen into a client, for a new type of hospital, where the will be taken care of with the proven effectiveness of our healthcare system and they can feel the centre of all care and attention at every moment.
This new model of Hospital we propose uses three basic elements to achieve this purpose efficiency, light and silence.
The best of hospital architecture combined with the best of residential architecture.
Conceptually, this new Hospital is arranged on a base that houses health care units, outpatients, diagnosis and treatment. The hospital is structured in three parallel modules or buildings which represent the best of hospital matrix structures; flexibility, expansion, functional clarity and horizontal circulation.
On this structure lay two inpatient units, two oval crowns drawn with pleasant curves which are sensorially differentiated from the depressing residential forms of the rationalist "pill block" and are inspired on the best of recent residential architecture: the elimination of corridors, therefore of noise, concentric circulation, light and silence around a common atrium.
Two functional concepts space, base and crown, which are linked to form a new architecture, a model that offers professionals the opportunity to discuss and citizens to be treated in an environment where the natural light and the resulting silence therapeutics.
Size / 94,415m2
Client / ConsejerÃa de Sanidad de la Comunidad de Madrid
Awards:
2012 COAM Distinction
2012 Wan Awards Health Care - Shortlisted
2012 Arquitectura Plus Award - Shortlisted
2012 Design & Health International Academy Awards - Shortlisted
2012 Roland Letter Award to the best corporate image
The project evokes the beauty of the surrounding natural world, in ways that are responsive to the nature of the site and the client. The project is conceived as a group of mountains with their peaks and spires, where the lower parts are beautiful and lush valleys dotted with lakes.
Business areas strive for supply management and service areas for users, with the objective of creating functional programs including apartments, retail and office, which provide a good range of community and support facilities. Some areas could be developed over a longer period of time. The center acts as the core and the different programs are linked to this core by means of a high-rise building. The design suggests the creation of 5 towers between 30 and 50 metres tall. The towers housing the public programs such as the Complex Building and Apartments are located on the East side while the Residential programs which need more privacy are located on the North and West side, looking to the Park and Arts Centre. At the centre there is a natural lung, full of courtyards, pathways, shops, vegetation, activity.