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Arenys de Munt, Spain
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CAN ZARIQUIEY HEALTH CENTRE FOYER
Arenys de Munt, Spain
Designing a space that lacks a clear function or purpose is very challenging. It was about designing a welcoming space for the families of patients, a meeting point between family members, center professionals, and patients themselves. It had to be a friendly, familial space, very domestic in terms of dimensions, with emphasis on materials, colors, light, both natural and artificial, and above all, easily relate to the building and existing spaces. However, it had to incorporate the conditions of the location, a very unique topographically and strategically point in the whole. It was, however, an opportunity to recover and give new meaning to the intervention we had previously made in this place.
The old building of Can Zariquiey, due to its volumetric composition, assumed the protagonism and personality of the ensemble before our first intervention. The extension we made connected the existing auxiliary buildings, all very humble constructions, with new connecting buildings, primarily rooms and workshops, making the protagonist no longer the old building but the new central courtyard around which these buildings are located. This new project for the reception space insisted on the new entrance we designed in our first intervention, but the responsibility for it was not evident. The volume excavated in the new construction was not sufficient to highlight this entrance, which now offered an opportunity to incorporate this new space. And it actually did so by dragging the conditions of the inner courtyard. The inner courtyard, around which the buildings are located, was designed with metal structures covered with a permeable fabric, with the intention of building a perimeter porch for the courtyard, but also a new facade for it, covering and protecting the existing building from the sun, the new facilities, and the new circulation spaces, and escaping the geometry of the courtyard at certain points to offer new opportunities. The new reception space belongs to this interior world of the courtyard, which emerges outside. In fact, this same interior logic that escapes towards the outside through a space already built.
The small pavilion we have built for welcoming families is a very domestic space that is apparently built against the building we had constructed when it actually emerges from it. It is a construction with a central pillar and mixed, wooden and metal, slightly radial and L-shaped pillars, which support the ground in a strange balance. In fact, this new construction looks like a spider.
Louise Bourgeois' spider, Maman, has accompanied the design of this space, a necessary space, given that we had built the web inside the courtyard, but we had never found the builder.
Photo: Adrià Goula
The old building of Can Zariquiey, due to its volumetric composition, assumed the protagonism and personality of the ensemble before our first intervention. The extension we made connected the existing auxiliary buildings, all very humble constructions, with new connecting buildings, primarily rooms and workshops, making the protagonist no longer the old building but the new central courtyard around which these buildings are located. This new project for the reception space insisted on the new entrance we designed in our first intervention, but the responsibility for it was not evident. The volume excavated in the new construction was not sufficient to highlight this entrance, which now offered an opportunity to incorporate this new space. And it actually did so by dragging the conditions of the inner courtyard. The inner courtyard, around which the buildings are located, was designed with metal structures covered with a permeable fabric, with the intention of building a perimeter porch for the courtyard, but also a new facade for it, covering and protecting the existing building from the sun, the new facilities, and the new circulation spaces, and escaping the geometry of the courtyard at certain points to offer new opportunities. The new reception space belongs to this interior world of the courtyard, which emerges outside. In fact, this same interior logic that escapes towards the outside through a space already built.
The small pavilion we have built for welcoming families is a very domestic space that is apparently built against the building we had constructed when it actually emerges from it. It is a construction with a central pillar and mixed, wooden and metal, slightly radial and L-shaped pillars, which support the ground in a strange balance. In fact, this new construction looks like a spider.
Louise Bourgeois' spider, Maman, has accompanied the design of this space, a necessary space, given that we had built the web inside the courtyard, but we had never found the builder.
Photo: Adrià Goula
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