Primary Care Center
30/10/2013.
By Josep Camps and Olga Felip. [L’Aldea] Spain
metalocus, ÁNGELA SOLÍS
metalocus, ÁNGELA SOLÍS
Memory of the project by Arquitecturia
The Rambla Catalunya is the nexus avenue of connection and growth of l’Aldea. Parallel to this avenue is the City Council Street, the station and the various public spaces like the Via Verde hiking trail, that generates a second umbilical cord for the site. Various roads that lead to the Delta cross this axis, like the Ligallo Carvallo Street. The roads, or ligallos, are circulation axes that define a spatial fabric of farms of the Ebro River delta. The site is located at the junction of one of the ligallos road and a new street, product of the current urban planning. At this point, two spatial fabrics are superimposed, the traditional fabric of the rice farms and the fabric of urban abstraction.
The access to the new Primary Care Center is produced at the interstitial space between these two orders. On one hand, a part of the building two stories high conforms a wall similar to the watchtowers along the banks of the Ebro River. Here are all the services, of different sizes and degrees of privacy depending on the level of their location. These two stories configure the access and the façade of the building as one approaches from the urban core. Its vertical proportion at the access area determines the scale of the building, despite the distance from the rest of the public facilities in this urban area of sparse buildings.
On the other hand, the rest of the building is only one story high. Its layout is a regular pattern for primary care, with consultation rooms equal in size and requirements. In this layout, the patios make up an intimate and private environment, separated from the interstitial corridor that distributes each of the areas. This lower part of the building, with horizontal proportions, follows the guide lines of Ligallo Street that lead on to the rice farms. The façade is homogenous, treated as the enclosure of the lot, as a wire netting fence, and from a single material, aluminum, that reflects and filters light into the interior.
Text.- Josep Camps and Olga Felip.
CREDITS.-
Main architect.- Josep Camps and Olga Felip.
Collaborators.- Mariella Agudo, Aitor Horta, Irene Solà, Albert Serrats.
Date.- 2013.
Structural Design.- GMK Grup.
Enginering.- Joan Antoni González Gou.
Site.- L’Aldea, Spain.
Josep Camps (1975) studied architecture at the Superior School of Architecture of Barcelona (00) | Worked for Atelier AO2 of Paris (1998) and Javier Sanjosé Office (2000-2003). He has received scholarship for taking part into different exchange programs and workshops including the Intercampus Scholarship at the Universidade Caixa du Sul and the program for ‘kashbes rehabilitation’ at Marocco by the UNESCO | Camps has been professor at the Superior School of Architecture of Barcelona –UPC where he taught Studio Project V-VI and since 2005 he is profesor at the University of Girona where he is the director of Studio Project I-II together with Josep Fuses and Elisabet Capdeferro. He has been visiting professor at the Master of Cultural Heritage Managment of the University of Girona and member of the Final. Review Jury at the School of Architecture of Alicante. Besides his teaching work he develops her thesis project. ‘Intertwining Architecture’ for the research area of Theory and Practice of Architectural Design –UPC Barcelona-. Cofounder of curatorial and design group MA!O and co-founder of the architectural studio ARQUITECTURIA.
ARQUITECTURIA has worked on residential, sanitary, educational and cultural projects for both public and private sectors. The studio members studied in different European universities, still holding engagement with them, and are involved in research programmes and being in contact with innovation and research applied in the professional area.
Olga Felip Ordis (1980) studied architecture at the Superior School of Architecture of Barcelona (2005). During her degree, she received a scholarship for taking part in different exchange programs and workshops including the IDSA+U workshop at the School of Architecture of Edinburgh, the European exchange program EAEN working at the School of Architecture of Belleville–Paris and at UCLA University -California- and the International Laboratory of Architecture and Urban Design ILAUD at UIAV – Venice | She received a scholarship for taking part at the International Congress of the Sixties Spanish Architecture and assisted at V DOCOMOMO Ibérico Congress about The GATPAC: Politics, culture and architecture on the thirties. In 2001 she assisted at the Summer School of the Architectural Association School of London. Co-founder of curatorial and design group MA!O, and co-founder of the architectural studio ARQUITECTURIA. Besides her professional career, she develops her thesis project for the research area of Theory and History of Architecture, at UPC Barcelona.
ARQUITECTURIA has worked on residential, sanitary, educational and cultural projects for both public and private sectors. The studio members studied in different European universities, still holding engagement with them, and are involved in research programmes and being in contact with innovation and research applied in the professional area.