Toggle Color Open
Close

Project Search

Projects All projects

Santa Maria de Faro Hospital

Santa Maria de Faro Hospital was to be a building with 4 floors above the ground level, though the last floor is only partially occupied. The two levels below ground level were to serve as parking levels and contained the extensive areas for the hospital building technical support services.
The model followed was that of a lead hospital, supported by a flexible and adaptable functional organisation to cover all perspectives of any possible needs that may arise throughout its use period, be they demographic, medical, infrastructural, info-communicational, hospitalisation and respective support systemsrelated, offering conditions of good comfort and safety for users and workers and being financially viable.

  • Location: Faro, Portugal
  • Sector: Healthcare
  • Year: 2010
  • Area: 74 beds
  • Client: HPP Saúde
  • Stage: Primary Study

To add an element of etherealness and movement to the building, we incorporated a façade system where in which the spans are apparent deep splits that provide the necessary luminous protection of the windows while creating an apparent broken texture through which it becomes hard to identify the windows and the floors, thus dematerialising the vertical reading of the built mass. The proposed structural solution was meant to achieve a regular and orthogonal set of reinforced concrete pillars, complemented with a group of reinforced concrete nuclei around the stairs and lifts.

In the conceptual development of the building we endeavoured to create a bonding element of great strength that seems to surround and contain the bodies but that simultaneously provides a sense of strength and safety on all upper levels, but one that, at the level of the pedestrian onlooker, fragments that sense and creates a visual effect that gives it a much more domestic and human dimension than a conventional solution, thus providing the building with a diversified, non-monolithic character. The low volume that it presents, combined with the façade treatment and layout in the landscape of the hospital, allowed us to minimise the visual impact that this type of construction normally has and efficiently contribute to its correct placement and integration into its surroundings. The basis for the image applied in this intervention is the premise of the idea of creating a global view, determining a contemporary architectural idiom, which is present both in the formal solutions proposed and in their materialisation.

Projects

Santa Maria de Faro Hospital

Santa Maria de Faro Hospital was to be a building with 4 floors above the ground level, though the last floor is only partially occupied. The two levels below ground level were to serve as parking levels and contained the extensive areas for the hospital building technical support services.
The model followed was that of a lead hospital, supported by a flexible and adaptable functional organisation to cover all perspectives of any possible needs that may arise throughout its use period, be they demographic, medical, infrastructural, info-communicational, hospitalisation and respective support systemsrelated, offering conditions of good comfort and safety for users and workers and being financially viable.

  • Location: Faro, Portugal
  • Sector: Healthcare
  • Year: 2010
  • Area: 74 beds
  • Client: HPP Saúde
  • Stage: Primary Study

To add an element of etherealness and movement to the building, we incorporated a façade system where in which the spans are apparent deep splits that provide the necessary luminous protection of the windows while creating an apparent broken texture through which it becomes hard to identify the windows and the floors, thus dematerialising the vertical reading of the built mass. The proposed structural solution was meant to achieve a regular and orthogonal set of reinforced concrete pillars, complemented with a group of reinforced concrete nuclei around the stairs and lifts.

In the conceptual development of the building we endeavoured to create a bonding element of great strength that seems to surround and contain the bodies but that simultaneously provides a sense of strength and safety on all upper levels, but one that, at the level of the pedestrian onlooker, fragments that sense and creates a visual effect that gives it a much more domestic and human dimension than a conventional solution, thus providing the building with a diversified, non-monolithic character. The low volume that it presents, combined with the façade treatment and layout in the landscape of the hospital, allowed us to minimise the visual impact that this type of construction normally has and efficiently contribute to its correct placement and integration into its surroundings. The basis for the image applied in this intervention is the premise of the idea of creating a global view, determining a contemporary architectural idiom, which is present both in the formal solutions proposed and in their materialisation.

If you continue to use this site, you consent to our use of cookies.

Ok