CaseStudy 02 - Elderly House, Spain
CaseStudy 02 - Elderly House, Spain
CaseStudy 02 - Elderly House, Spain
Site Information
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Architects: Oscar MiguelAres Alvareez
Location: Valladolid,Spain
Site
Area: 2000 sq.m
Project Year: 2016
Concept
Zoning
Provide our elderly with kind environment which The housing for the elderly in Adeamayor de San Martin (Valladolid) can not be understood without
promotes to be in touch with nature,with the its context. Located on the border of a saline hidden wetland (Salgüeros de Aldeamayor) the aridity
sunn,but also enhancing the close relation of the terrain and the infinite horizontality of the Spanish agricultural esplanade - dotted with small
between inhabitants of the building masses of pine trees - dominates the landscape, conditioning the implementation of any structure
or artifact.
Reception
Road Circulation Watch Room
Residence
Dining Room
Circulation
Main Building Secondary Road Rows of concrete fins shade the large windows of Green Space
this nursing home near the Spanish city of Common
Valladolid, which features rooms clustered around Nurse and Medical
Primary Road Tertiary Road
a landscaped central courtyard. Fitness Room
Office
Doctor’s Room
Parking
Ventilation
Circulation
Ventilation
The whole work has been governed by the use of simple and cost-effective materials, without fanfare.
Geometry, spatiality, light and careful treatment color and textures to get a warm and cozy interior
protected by an abstract and rhythmic limit to the exterior. On the arid plain of the Castilla y León landscape
we have placed a building formed by white concrete blocks paired in a striated way, marking an intense but
subtle border with the ground.
Sections
White concrete facades that rise up from the dry ground are clad with vertical fins that cast rhythmical
patterns of shadow in the strong Spanish sun. Exposed concrete blockwork, white-painted bricks,
timber flooring and vertical wooden strips fixed to the walls create a neutral material palette, which
accentuates the brightness of the interior spaces.
Architect:
"The exterior is abstract and hard, like the environment," said Ares Álvares. "A seemingly
insurmountable barrier, a shell to protect the interior that becomes kind, warm and complex."