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Architects: CARREÑO SARTORI Arquitectos: Carreño Sartori Arquitectos – Mario Carreño Zunino, Piera Sartori del Campo
- Year: 2009
Text description provided by the architects. In the Veterinary Hospital, a single building on a restricted site, must collect the programmatic complexity. At street level the veterinary requirements and animal recovery rooms are designed with easy vehicle and stretchers access. A 50 cm. height base, separates the outside ground, setting a distance between a sterile interior and the pollution from a path that serves other uses. Second floor resolve the offices, laboratories and resident bedroom program.
![Zoo Veterinary Hospital / Carreño Sartori Arquitectos - Facade, Beam](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5009/591e/28ba/0d27/a700/25d2/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1414387761)
The site has several neighbor buildings that are part of a set -our office had already developed the Management and Warehouse buildings- from the edges of this form of contact is thought the new building. It is oriented to the south and must resolve the contention of the hill, presenting a major challenge for natural lighting.
![Zoo Veterinary Hospital / Carreño Sartori Arquitectos - Facade, Beam](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5009/592a/28ba/0d27/a700/25d4/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1414387755)
First came an order to indoor use, very technical, for the proper functioning of veterinary and then began a process that could be called strain-stretching and contracting parties, to get certain attributes of light and reach the adjacent buildings, reconstituting a path system which we had introduced in earlier intervention.
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Between the first and second level is a ratio of 3 / 1 in the required square meters, leaving the vast majority of the program on the first floor. This results in a second floor with a large terrace, which is used as a common place for Veterinary Hospital, Management Building and the Staff Dining Room.
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The ground level has reduced natural light requirements, because many uses should be artificially illuminated. The gallery is lit naturally from the south and in the hospital area, it need a soft light for the animals recovery. There are a courts sequence that gives direct natural light and ventilation to recovery rooms.
![Zoo Veterinary Hospital / Carreño Sartori Arquitectos - Table, Windows, Beam, Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5009/5957/28ba/0d27/a700/25db/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1414387773)
Once raised up the reinforced concrete floor, that contain the hill, it is proposed a steel structure and wood lining for the second floor, to get a higher touch temperature and use the greatest amount of light with different types of windows for domestic work, opening the entire floor with a gallery to the north.
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