Pabellón docente Hospital Arrixaca

Description

The teaching center for the Virgen de la Arrixaca University Hospital, stands in the edge of a big hospital complex, facing two of the streets of its boundaries: a main avenue and a perpendicular service road.Within the site, this building generates a square perpendicular to the main avenue, an open space that collects the flows coming from the city and the hospital it is in. The different uses are contained within a single compact volume, with its main facade facing the south and the rear facade, towards the north, facing the service road and a small car parking area. The project is conceived as a neutral, compact and monolithic box, two and four-story high, in which “projected voids” are used as a form of intervention that tense the box and generate spaces of a diverse scale and nature. This way, the access hall develops from the confrontation of two different voids, one of 15x15x15 m (inside) and one of 9x9x6 m (outside), that compress and strain it vertically.The transition between the consecutive episodes, void (access space), the vertical space of the access hall, and the void (courtyard), all of them with their own attributes, shape the tempo and main spatial theme of the project. The central space binds together the public uses in the ground floor (lecture hall, cafeteria and class rooms) with the library in the first floor. In the rest of the building the university departments are arranged following the longitudinal axis of the building.The “projected voids” that deliver light and vision to the different spaces are enveloped by a goldenserigraph skin that sieves the light and alludes the stony texture used in the building, with the intention of recalling an exchange of the stone itself and the tectonics of the stone-textured skin.(Description provided by the architects)