Center for Individuals with Disabilities / g.bang architecture

Feb 2012

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Architects: José Javier Gallardo Ortega ///g.bang///
Location: Camino del Abejar, Zaragoza, Spain
Project Team: Daniel Borruey – co-developer, Angélica Fernández
Construction Management: José Javier Gallardo Ortega – co-ordinator/director | Zaira Peinado – co-director | Gabriel Frag – execution assitant
Structure: Guillermo Choliz
Installations Engineering: D3i
Constructor: EDUPA
Client: Nuestra Señora del Carmen Neuropsychiatric Centre | Hermanas Hospitalarias del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús
Building status: 2011
Site size: 12,000 sqm
Photograph: Jesús Granada, bis-images

ONE CONCEPT, ONE COLOR AND ONE MATERIAL

The assignment is motivated by the need to expand the Neuropsychiatric Centre Our Lady of Carmen, in Zaragoza. In the first phase there is a new support centre for youth with behavioural problems, and currently sharing facilities with the geriatric section and, by the nature of their treatment and pathology, was necessary to become independent. In a second phase will be built the “Module for Occupational Workshops.”

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PROGRAM | It has 10 single bedrooms and 8 double rooms, with toilets. The common areas of the internal are two living rooms and dining room. The program is completed with, reception room, two offices, laundry, office, control room toilets, storage and utility room.

GEOMETRY | The floor plan is rectangular, dimensions 15.5 x 65 m. The facade has no cantilevers , but reflects the emptying of the building volume in the direction north, creating a courtyard to capture sunlight and allow controlled the patients to stay there in the summer.

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The roof, for the most part, saw tooth shape, with variable slopes – very steep at some points – reflects, from the outside, the degree of internal mental activity in relation to the type of rooms they occupy: the resting or sleeping area with a slope of 60%, common areas or with maximum activity have outstanding peak of 240%. The treatment of the spaces occupied by the medical staff and caregivers has been dealt with flat roofs.

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MATERIAL/COLOR | Façade and roof are covered with red zinc coated sheet. Historically, these centres, known as asylums were unrecognizable and hidden by society. But Hospital, “hospitare” in Latin, means “to receive as a guest” and together with the values of the Congregation and its founder, “Hospitality between people who suffer mental impairment” and “integrating the patients into society as far as possible” where the main goals… The red colour is a symbol that makes them visible… that robs us of prejudice… that emphasizes the social work… makes us more sexy! The material… the shape of this whole “scene” had to be modelled nobly!

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* Location to be used only as a reference. It could indicate city/country but not exact address.

Cite:
King , Victoria . "Center for Individuals with Disabilities / g.bang architecture" 08 Feb 2012. ArchDaily. Accessed 25 May 2012. <http://www.archdaily.com/204841>

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Martin says:

Cool, reminds me of High Plains Drifter

# February 8, 2012 at 09:56

Scott Sowers says:

Interesting treatment for a treatment facility. Love the red.

# February 8, 2012 at 11:37

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kez says:

Really? That’s what you feel the need to comment on? If that was a starting point for architectural thought, I pity the bland buildings that would result.

# February 9, 2012 at 04:47

Dennis Moss Jnr says:

it’s not a starting point, but it is a reality.
(why is everyone so oversensitive…?)

# February 15, 2012 at 01:59

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Gilles Eury

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3:26 PM Feb 8th

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