Santa Rita Geriatric Center / Manuel Ocaña

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Menorca, Spain
  • Architects: Manuel Ocaña
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  5
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2003

Text description provided by the architects. Geriatric centers should be optimistic places appealing to live in or to visit. The idea is to create a characteristic atmosphere in a vital space where spare time prevails and where residents spend the last years or months of their lives. The fact is that it is possible to build a geriatric center that does not look like a hospital, with neither corridors nor architectural barriers and on a single floor, in which all the rooms have direct access from (and towards) a garden that, as a sort of ‘lobby', acts also as direct access towards (and from) the collective spaces. The aim is to ensure total accessibility, physical autonomy, psychical security and respect to individual privacy, facilitating access to visitors.

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Cite: "Santa Rita Geriatric Center / Manuel Ocaña" 15 Jun 2009. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/24725/santa-rita-geriatric-center-manuel-ocana> ISSN 0719-8884

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