The project titled 'Lagar,' submitted by estudio DIIR, the Madrid leads by Ricardo Fernández, David Meana, Ignacio Navarro, and Iñigo Palazón, won first place – with a 10,000 euros award – in the public and open-to-all competition, for the enlargment of a mental health center.

The competition was  organized by the Extremadura region's Ministry of Health and Social Services, and the project is on Avenida Martín Palomino in Plasencia, a city to the north of Caceres, in western Spain. It’s known for its medieval walls and old quarter.
estudio DIIR was selected out of 42 entries.Its proposal shows a ring shape with a perimetral arrangement of rooms, opening out to the exterior, providing views, connection with the green areas and, at the same time, promoting privacy.

Circulation is through a spacious bright gallery that also serves as an acoustic buffer. The project includes two transversal volumes for communal zones, positioned in a way that forms three courtyards of similar dimensions.
 

Project description by estudio DIIR

Lagar defends an integrated model in community where the humanization of space plays a fundamental role in the improvement and quality of patient care. The patios, the terraces and the porches offer a feeling of freedom and promote attractive rooms where the interiors mix with the exteriors, where the sun coexists with the shade and where the changes in light and temperature are palpable.
    
The perimeter ring collects the rooms, oriented towards the outside, providing views and, at the same time, promoting privacy. Next, a wide and illuminated gallery collects the circulations of the complex. These routes help to improve the orientation of the patient, and also function as an acoustic mattress. The day program is encompassed within the central courtyard. Two transversal volumes receive the common rooms and their strategic placement generates three patios of similar dimensions.

Although the operating scheme is systematic, it also stands out for its flexibility. The series of rooms is mixed with spaces for relationships and coexistence where versatility is at the service of spontaneous encounters. In this sense, the three patios receive special attention. An architecture of contained, bright and durable scale. Its manicured gardens favor the walk, promote the enjoyment of nature, and are committed to creating an emotional atmosphere.

The same rules apply to the outer urbanization where each of the sides establishes a dialogue with its closest environment, promoting in any case, an evident dialogue with green areas. The sober and orderly image of the building combines with the warmth and vitality of its interior spaces, giving the complex a calm appearance that promotes serenity and rest.

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Consejería Sanidad y Servicios Sociales. Junta de Extremadura.
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Useful surface.- 2,893.50 m². Constructed area.- 4,050.75 m².
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February 2020.
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€ 2,421,230.50
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estudio DIIR is an architecture firm based in Madrid founded in 2018 by David Meana, Ignacio Navarro, Iñigo Palazón and Ricardo Fernández, all of them architects from the Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM), complemented their training with international experiences in the United States, Sweden, France, China or India. This opportunity has given them an open perspective that they now apply in each of their innovative works.

Their projects, marked by a strong strategic and conceptual positioning, have received national and international recognition. Facing projects of multiple scales has allowed them to develop a practice that explores infinite ways to achieve uniqueness through sensitivity and rigor. The various public projects won at the beginning of their journey - some of them currently under construction - are combined with private commissions of all kinds. The achievement of this variety of works has allowed the studio to be awarded by the COAM as an emerging studio in several consecutive years.

Their work has received national and international recognition. In 2018, he was awarded first prize for the construction of a new cultural centre in Los Molinos (Madrid). At the beginning of 2019, he won first prize for the landscaping of Villamayor de Gállego (Zaragoza). And in 2020, he won first prize for the construction of the social-health centre in Plasencia (Cáceres). In addition, he was recently selected among five international finalists to carry out the Museum of Archaeology and Prehistory in Santander.

The strategic and conceptual positioning developed in the various design competitions in which he has been awarded is transferred to domestic spaces. From offices and shops to renovations and homes, estudio DIIR explores various ways to achieve uniqueness through innovation and rigour.

DIIR's philosophy is a dialogue between beauty and life experience. They conceive and transform spaces as places in constant interaction with people's life experience, influencing their daily lives and the quality of their existence. DIIR is a dialogue between rigor and sensitivity. The perseverance and precision with which we approach each project coexists with the delicacy to achieve solutions that are guided by the search for uniqueness. DIIR is a dialogue between timelessness and resonance. Their work moves away from trends and fashions with the aim of achieving spaces that endure over time and that, in turn, have the capacity to generate an impact on those who interact with them.
 

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