Santa Teresa Retirement Home / BmesR29 Arquitectes

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Lleida, Spain

Text description provided by the architects. BmesR29 Arquitectes rehabilitated and added an addition onto the Santa Teresa retirement home. The existing building was an isolated three story volume that projected westward with a continuous facade in street Pica d'Estats. The addition almost doubled the size of the building due to functional needs of the retirement home.

Santa Teresa Retirement Home / BmesR29 Arquitectes - Facade, Windows
© Amaneceres Fotográficos / Joseph Ardiaca Rodríguez

With such a large addition the architects tried to avoid adding more volumetric variations that would appear artificial. They aimed to have the building read as a single volume. They partly accomplished this by using a protective outer solar system of vertical aluminum louver that solved the old problem of intrusion in the original building. These louvers also shape the interior light and with the continuous neutral floors that unify the home and give prominence to the different inputs of filtered light from the outside.

Santa Teresa Retirement Home / BmesR29 Arquitectes - Windows, Facade
© Amaneceres Fotográficos / Joseph Ardiaca Rodríguez

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Address:Lleida, Spain

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Cite: "Santa Teresa Retirement Home / BmesR29 Arquitectes" 07 Apr 2011. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/125600/santa-teresa-retirement-home-bmesr29-arquitectes> ISSN 0719-8884

© Amaneceres Fotográficos / Joseph Ardiaca Rodríguez

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