State Reference Center for Mental Care / Peñín Architects

State Reference Center for Mental Care / Peñín Architects

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  • Architects: Peñín Architects: Peñín Architects / Alberto Peñín Llobell, Pablo Peñín Llobell, Alberto Peñín Ibáñez
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  12362
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2010
  • Photographs
    Photographs:Diego Opazo

Text description provided by the architects. The urban condition of the site is the origin of the proposal for an autonomous system tilted towards the strict North orientation, with protection against noise and direct views. The compactness of the building is smoothed with its porosity, luminosity and interior fluidity. The institutional and reference character of the center is expressed with the precision of the structural system, metric forms and the limited use of materials. Offering various services, the building has a care area for 20 persons, day center, a research area with labs, classrooms, administration offices and an auditorium.

Urban Access Plan

The recovery of the mat building mechanism, close to the site of the unbuilt Jullian, LC’s partner’s proposal for the Valencia fair in 67, allows embracing for the complexity of the assistance and education program in a self dependent organism, while still responding to the topographic and urban requirements. The building is fixed to a rigorous constructive system using white concrete 2.40m modules, controlling the cost, and contributing to the institutional character of the center. As in the mat building, its capacity is attenuated by the interior spatiality, the shaping of the voids, and in this case by the presence of nature and conviviality between the common and exterior spaces.

State Reference Center for Mental Care / Peñín Architects - Facade
© Diego Opazo

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Address:Campanar, Av Maestro Rodrigo, 30, 46015 Valencia, Spain

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Cite: "State Reference Center for Mental Care / Peñín Architects" 28 Jun 2011. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/144841/state-reference-center-for-mental-care-penin-architects> ISSN 0719-8884

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State Reference Center for Mental Care / Peñín Architects

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