HEALTH CENTER

L’Aldea | 2013

The site is located at the junction of one of the ligallos road and a new street, product of the current urban planning. The roads or ligallos, are circulation axes that define a spatial fabric of farms of the Ebro River delta.

At this point, two spatial grids are superimposed, the traditional grid of the rice fields and the grid of urban abstraction.

The access to the new Primary Health Center is produced at the interstitial space between these two orders. On one hand, a part of the building two stories high conforms a wall similar pattern to the watchtowers along the banks of the Ebro River.
Here are all the services, of different sizes and degrees of privacy depending on the level of their location.

The rest of the building is only one story high. Its layout is a regular pattern for primary care, with consultation rooms equal in size and requirements. In this layout, the patios make up an intimate and private environment, separated from the interstitial corridor that distributes each of the areas. This lower part of the building, with horizontal proportions, follows the guide lines of Ligallo Street that lead on to the rice farms. The façade is homogenous, treated as the enclosure of the lot, as a wire netting fence, and from a single material, aluminium, that reflects and filters light into the interior.