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Architects
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Location
Carrer de Manresa, 28, 08295 Sant Vicenç de Castellet, Barcelona, Spain -
Project Team
Joan Arnau Farràs, Carmen Muñoz Ramírez -
Project Area
1335.0 m2 -
Project Year
2010 -
Photography
José Hevia
The building fits into its immediate urban context, as it identifies the specificity of the pre-existing buildings on the site. It is adjusted around them with the goal of giving them new value.
The volume in relation to the street has two floors, a direct encounter with the sidewalk and vertical openings. Instead, the volumes facing the railway have a single story, are high on the ground and the openings are unified in a single horizontal strip.
The row of poplars and the old railway facilities warehouse define the exterior limits of the access.
The lobby is strategically positioned in the center of the building, acting as a panoptic space that articulates and relates the different functional areas, as well as the views of the pre-existing exteriors.
At one end of the lobby, a courtyard surrounds the large poplar and allows us to separate, on its two other sides, the health education classroom and consultation area.
Consultation rooms are located on both sides of a waiting area lit naturally through two skylights oriented intentionally to frame the foliage of the poplars.
In the continuing care area, the waiting room has a double height and a window at the end that frames the old warehouse and the row of poplars at the access.
The answer to the site becomes a resource, an opportunity to add value to the correct functional design, characteristic of a primary care center.
