LOCATION
The building is located at the confluence of two streets of very different character and section, but of great importance for Vilafranca: on the one hand, Pelegrina Avenue, which is the bypass of the town, with a fast-track section, a large traffic density and few pedestrians; on the other, the Igualada road, as a great promenade that connects with the centre of Vilafranca. The new outpatients clinic understands and responds to the place through a clear, clean and articulated volumetry: a low body that grows in the corner, at the meeting of the streets, marking the entrance to the building and becoming the new door to the city.
PROGRAM
The building is projected from the void, the patios articulate the volumetry and the spaces, guaranteeing the perfect illumination of all the spaces and favouring the privacy that a healthcare building requires. The articulation of the patios achieves domestic and human proportions of the waiting rooms, the steps and the rest of the spaces for relationships, favouring a comfortable use with quality visual and lighting relations. The lower body incorporates the entire program for public use, leaving the most private parts on the upper floors of the entrance volume.
MATERIALITY
The materials used also respond to a double scale: on the one hand, the precast concrete pieces give the volume its character as a public building, as a new access door to the city; that contrasts with the interior, white, clean and bright, where the materiality is the light itself, which floods the spaces through large windows framing the relationships between the interior and the exterior. The glass and the windows move in and out in these large sheet metal frames, establishing different spatial relationships with the exterior and with the patios, which guarantee the intimacy and privacy of the consulting rooms and waiting rooms.
