Hyperflexibility by a parametric design system. Manta Hospital by PMMT
03/12/2019.
[Manta] Ecuador
metalocus, ANA DIOSDADO
metalocus, ANA DIOSDADO
Project description by PMMT
Manta General Hospital
Manta General Hospital in Ecuador responds to a civil emergency: a city devastated by an earthquake in 2016 in a country with little seismic risk awareness and is looking to improving regulatory and planning issues. The first anti-seismic hospital in Ecuador is based on two main pillars: a jump in scale taking the parametric design to the highest level and surpassing the patent obtained two years earlier as a result of the design and construction of the Puyo Hospital - and the ingenuity of using conventional systems make up the pillars of the first anti-seismic hospital in Ecuador.
The earthquake catastrophe had left a population of more than 200,000 people without a hospital, nor an airport. In order to restore healthcare attention in the Bahía area, it was necessary to build a general hospital in the shortest time possible and at the lowest cost. An ingenious design proposes a seismic-resistant structure prepared to maintain its operativity and reduce its vulnerability to future earthquakes.
The building construction speed doesn’t restrict neither its high representative value nor its exterior appearance, which is contemporary and innovative thanks to a very light material used on the exterior facade: translucent polycarbonate. This material is intermittent by transparent glass windows, creating spaces that shape several porches and patios, and elements that achieve a proper transition between environments through light, shadows, reflections, transparency and translucency.
Patricio Martínez, Maximià Torruella, arquitectura, SL provide qualified technical services in the fields of architecture, interior design and urban planning.
Under the group name PMMT writing up architecture projects and competition at the Catalan, Spanish and International level.
To provide a flexible structure able to efficiently co-ordinate the range of processes and experts needed in nowadays architecture projects, consolidating an organization capable of adjusting to the realization of projects of varied complexity.