HOSPITAL IN ALCAÑIZ

Teruel, Spain

HOSPITAL IN ALCAÑIZ

Teruel, Spain

HOSPITAL IN ALCAÑIZ

Teruel, Spain

HOSPITAL IN ALCAÑIZ

Teruel, Spain

HOSPITAL IN ALCAÑIZ

Teruel, Spain

HOSPITAL IN ALCAÑIZ

Teruel, Spain

HOSPITAL IN ALCAÑIZ

Teruel, Spain

HOSPITAL IN ALCAÑIZ

Teruel, Spain

HOSPITAL IN ALCAÑIZ

Teruel, Spain

HOSPITAL IN ALCAÑIZ

Teruel, Spain

Public Tender

m2 Built: 55,705.00

Material Execution Budget: €58,490,239.55

Year: 2010

Promoter: Aragonese Health Service

MEMORY

Quoting Michel Foucault, a hospital is increasingly a “healing machine”, but we must not forget that this machine we want to design is for curing people and must transmit a guarantee of this function to all its users.

The complex, both inside and outside, has been designed with a human-scale configuration that allows the visitor to contemplate the surrounding nature and observe the urban core of Alcañiz from a dominant position.

The building is designed to adapt to the unevenness of the terrain, configuring with its urbanization a new landscape integrated with the existing natural environment. Special emphasis is placed on the treatment of the area where the rooms face, giving them the most favorable orientation of the complex, since the stay of the patients in them will be the longest in time.

The conceived scheme allows, through a central vertebral “spine”, to connect all the fundamental assistance services, without unwanted crossings with public transit. The external circulations are projected on the perimeter of the “large block”, starting from a large hall arranged perpendicular to the healthcare axis.

This large backbone axis has been designed to serve as a reference space, generating a global order of operation of the building that allows easy orientation of users, almost without the intervention of signage. This large corridor unfolds on level 1, with the fundamental aim of separating supply traffic from healthcare traffic.

Thanks to this scheme, the main flows have been resolved horizontally without crossings, architectural barriers or interferences, on both sides of this large corridor, which also contains practically all the essential vertical transports, such as elevators, stairs and installation ducts.

The aforementioned comb scheme of upper levels is transformed into a classic typology of orthogonal mesh, when they all merge on the base floors of levels 1 and 2.

The volumes that make up the complex are projected to be physically and functionally linked through the corridors that connect the different hospitalization, diagnosis and treatment services, supported by the large transversal patios that allow the complex to be loosened up and the dependencies to be illuminated through the trees and plantations planned inside them.