The new Dexeus University Institute is located on the site of the old Psychiatric Hospital. The project establishes a linear container on Sabino Arana Street and incorporates a series of complementary functions within the building of the old Psychiatric Hospital building, cataloged by the Municipal Heritage Service.
The project maintains the desire to incorporate and link the two buildings, fostering an intentional relationship between the new and the old.
The interstitial space between the two architectures is formalised as a covered atrium, which at the same time will be a functional interchange between different clinical areas, the garden of the old psychiatric clinic and Sabino Arana Street.
This space, open but conditioned, will function as a true lobby and meeting place between the different users.
The new building will contain all those functions directly linked to the clinical world and the old building will incorporate functions served such as teaching and conference areas.
The complex will make it possible to have new equipment for the city and at the same time resolve the boundaries with Sabino Arana Street and establish a link through the atrium with the renovated building of the Psychiatric Institute, as well as the recovery of the garden and the arboreal area of the old Psychiatric Institute, a garden protected by the high value of the plant elements it contains.
