The new Hospital Sant Joan de Reus is conceived as an engine of expansion area of the municipality where it’s planned to generate a new technological area. This urban dimension marks its hatched definition, capable of generating routes and link flows in the city.
The building is implanted in a horizontal bar with two basements and ground floor it is situated on a comb of 6 admission bars of two floors each.
The north facade supports one of the fast access roads to the city by some cantilevered bodies that house the hospital. The focus of public service hospital, is oriented to south and is conceived as a great avenue, transitional space between the exterior and interior
The project aims to modulate the scale of a large hospital equipment,
from urban scale characteristic of the access areas and public
circulation until the proper scale of hospitalization, with their need
for proximity and withdrawal. In this sense the public area is both
functional and climatically, as if it were a covered street and the area
of inpatient grouping around three landscaped courtyards, where the
rooms are oriented to, trying to humanize the life of this area .
The hospital is seen as a great system that organizes service
subsystems. The public, medical and technical needs are ranked and
connected by circulations that form a sequence that defines restrictions
on the accessibility, clarifying the circuits and avoiding
interferences.
The architecture is also an infrastructure capable of producing directly the weather and lighting to his inner life.
The new Sant Joan Hospital is a building designed to provide a
contemporary response to the hospital program, takes special care in the
comfort of the patient and the staff who have to use it, and responds
to the needs of eco-efficiency by decreasing energy consumption by 35%
respect the average consumption of a hospital.
This was achieved without using large active energy saving facilities
(geothermal, solar fields, etc.) that would have further increased the
levels of savings.
The building has been built with a construction rate of the order of
1200 € / m2, in the lower range of prices for hospital construction.
Public Client: Innova. Reus city council. Servei Català de la Salut. Generalitat de Catalunya
End of construction: 2009
Authors: Felipe Pich-Aguilera and Teresa Batlle Baurier Pagès (Equip
Arquitectura Pich-Aguilera), Mario and Luis Morán Corea (Corea-Moran
Arquitectos).
Group Responsible: Angel Sendarrubias. Xavi Milanes. Pau Casaldàliga.
Project Responsible: Jordi Paris.
Photographer: Adrià Goula
Contractor: UTE Hospital in Reus (Dragados-Abantia)
Building surface: Hospital Area: 86.013m2 Surface Parking
Construction Cost 17.082m2 (PEM): € 107,380,015
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