The new facilities of the CRAM Foundation are located at the old Prat de Llobregat golf course in the Equipment Area of the Corredor del Litoral, with a performance area of approximately 20,000m2. The project seeks the balance between the clinical research program and the public program, with the minimum means possible, to ensure that the conditions of the activity become the fundamental elements when defining the architectural and volumetric features of the whole set. This decision pursues an architecture that seeks the equidistant point between its functional condition and its representative condition as a public building. Each of the three buildings that make up the complex expresses in its form the activity that takes place there.

The new facilities of the CRAM Foundation are located on the old golf course of El Prat de Llobregat in the Equipment Area of the Corredor del Litoral with a performance area of approximately 20,000m².

The new intervention is located between Ricarda House by Antonio Bonet Castellana to the north, and the Golf Club by José Antonio Coderch and Robert Terradas Via to the south, a few metres from the new buildings. Among such illustrious neighbours, the project is positioned from a position of respect both towards the existing buildings, and towards the magnificent location to which it is allied to merge into an indissoluble unit.

It is an unparalleled and pioneer centre in Europe which incorporates the knowledge of the CRAM to achieve facilities that allow the three basic lines of action of the foundation to be effectively developed: on the one hand, the clinic and rescue of marine protected species that vary along the coast for subsequent reintroduction; on the other hand, conservation, research and training tasks and finally social awareness actions on the state of the marine environment and its problems.

The project seeks the balance between the clinical research program and the public program, with the minimum means possible, to ensure that the conditions of the activity become the fundamental elements when defining the architectural and volumetric features of the complex.

This decision pursues an architecture that seeks the equidistant point between its functional condition and its representative condition as a public building.

Each of the three buildings that make up the complex expresses the activity that takes place there through its form.

The clinical and recovery building appears as a building open to the landscape, permeable in the north-south direction and hermetic in the east-west direction. It is permeable to the green corridor and parallel to the sea with its two canopies that do not rest on the ground and are hermetic to the hustle and bustle of the beach in summer. They are open to cross views between users and visitors without their paths crossing. The rest of the building sinks into the ground in a surgical topography operation to end up being part of it.

The administration building recovers the old nursery to house the administration and outreach and awareness program.

The postmortem study building appears to us as a compact and hermetic volume that preserves the activity that takes place inside. Only when crossing the opaque door, in the hall, a window offers a view of the interior of the room where the autopsies of marine animals are carried out to look for the causes of their death and consequently prevent them in the future. A room with zenithal lighting coming from the skylight running tangent to the walls that provides the space with a constant and diffused light.