Badies, is an example of an extensive urban planning of the
seventies with little urban qualities. In the last decade, it has
undergone a population surge, necessitating an extension and
refurbishment of existing health centre. The brief included works
on existing building as well as an extension with new rooms for
pediatrics, extraction and administrative staff to increase and
improve the service provided.
The urban structure of the site is formed by an endless maze of
streets and buildings without hierarchy. In this context, the new
health centre wants to strengthen the image an institutional
building, in an area very much in need for hierarchy and urban
structure.
The commissioning of the project is set on an austere one storey
building and the adjoining plot where building regulations leave
room only for interventions that are a natural extension of the
existing construction. The key factor to tackle was the fact that
during building execution the health centre should remain open.
The extension is proposed as an autonomous attachment directly
“stuck” on to the existing building and a a series of phases have
to be followed for minimizing the disorder to the health centre in
operation.
1. Preparation of the existing building. Without interfering in
the daily use of the health centre. Exterior “surgery” is done to
existing construction in order to regulate the perimeter.
2. Construction of independent extension and when finished,
reallocating the program from the existing centre.
3. Refurbishment of existing building and demolition of separation
wall for internal comunication.