project | New health center
location | Mojácar (Almería)
date | 2024
About two kilometres from the Mediterranean Sea, located at an intermediate point on the Rambla de Campos,
between the mountainous settlement of the town and its coastal extension, the new Mojácar Health Centre is born.
A set of pure white volumes, with marked edges and faces faceted by the sun,
crossed by it only in the essential gaps and naturally adapted to the topography on which they sit,
form the historic town of Mojácar.
Through a contemporary language, the building rescues and reinterprets values of popular vernacular architecture.
The project establishes a constant dialogue between contrasting realities.
In it, repetition and exclusivity, regularity and irregularity, naturalness and artificiality confront each other…
all of them dichotomous aspects that intensify each other mutually and reciprocally.
The duality serves to order the functional program, which is divided into three bands.
One band houses the rooms of equal size and condition (the standard consultations)
while the opposite one concentrates the modules of health specialties.
Between them, there is a large circulation and waiting room that acts as a backbone
for the connections of the Center.
The duality also extends to the location of the building, which is located at the midpoint between the sea and the mountain.
The coastal core and the historic settlement are linked by two parallel routes: a natural boulevard and an artificial road.
The tension between both layouts (the first, more sinuous and the second more tense) is also evident in the geometry of the building.
This is a project whose construction and aesthetics respond at the same time
to the traditional values of the area, to the conditions of the environment and to the demands of the functional program
from a contemporary perspective.
Video HERE
Photography DAVID FRUTOS
Promoter JUNTA DE ANDALUCÍA SAS
Builder GRUPO COPSA
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project |
date | 2024
location | Mojácar (Almería)
About two kilometres from the Mediterranean Sea, located at an intermediate point on the Rambla de Campos,
between the mountainous settlement of the town and its coastal extension, the new Mojácar Health Centre is born.
A set of pure white volumes, with marked edges and faces faceted by the sun,
crossed by it only in the essential gaps and naturally adapted to the topography on which they sit,
form the historic town of Mojácar.
Through a contemporary language, the building rescues and reinterprets values of popular vernacular architecture.
The project establishes a constant dialogue between contrasting realities.
In it, repetition and exclusivity, regularity and irregularity, naturalness and artificiality confront each other…
all of them dichotomous aspects that intensify each other mutually and reciprocally.
The duality serves to order the functional program, which is divided into three bands.
One band houses the rooms of equal size and condition (the standard consultations)
while the opposite one concentrates the modules of health specialties.
Between them, there is a large circulation and waiting room that acts as a backbone
for the connections of the Center.
The duality also extends to the location of the building, which is located at the midpoint between the sea and the mountain.
The coastal core and the historic settlement are linked by two parallel routes: a natural boulevard and an artificial road.
The tension between both layouts (the first, more sinuous and the second more tense) is also evident in the geometry of the building.
This is a project whose construction and aesthetics respond at the same time
to the traditional values of the area, to the conditions of the environment and to the demands of the functional program
from a contemporary perspective.
Video HERE
Photography DAVID FRUTOS
Promoter JUNTA DE ANDALUCÍA SAS
Builder GRUPO COPSA