The building for primary health care center, Campoamor CAP, resolves a program that has some complexity, as it includes general practice rooms, emergency services, health classroom, administration offices, etc. The project aims to reconcile adequate functional resolution of well-defined requirements with the urban morphology of the area where the building is located, which conditions and largely explains the volume that it finally adopts.
As basic project options must be added the relationship with the immediate environment (the tree-lined square), the need to resolve the difference in program between the ground and first floors and the will to prevail and stand out, geometrically and volumetrically, in the urban context in which it is implanted, that can be described as a residential district surrounded by equipment, such as the market, a civic center and a school.
The building has basically rectangular shape with an integrated covered courtyard. Its functional logic is that of a corridor around the courtyard, giving access to all units. In the areas of medical rooms located on the ground and first floors, such corridor widens creating waiting rooms, which are opened to and enjoy the yard.
FUNCTIONAL CRITERIA
Healthcare areas are spread over two floors (ground and first) reaching 12 medical rooms on the ground floor and 13 on the first floor. All this healthcare area is built around a courtyard that provides light and around the vertical core of stairs and elevator. A second service stairway and emergency evacuation is situated on the West side of the floor.
AESTHETIC CRITERIA
The building is ground floor and two other floors high. The ground and first floors have the same volume and the second floor occupies the central part of the building and sets back on all the facades. All floors are articulated in a building, where a courtyard for light and ventilation occupies its center part.
The exterior walls of the building are designed to be concrete facades made "on-site" and the openings made of anodized aluminum. Bars on the ground floor are also proposed anodized aluminum.
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITERIA
Given the slope that the site presents and that the project aim has explicitly sought to raise the building from the ground as much as possible, the ground floor slab is constructed using pre-stressed honeycomb plates supported on walls of concrete block filled with mass concrete.
The structure is designed with concrete pillars and two-way waffle slabs supported by headers. The roof is proposed flat, using Intemper type construction for waterproofing.
URBAN AND GARDENING CRITERIA
The remaining part of the site that is not built is intended to be a garden, which surrounds the Health Center almost entirely with a very simple treatment of gardening. Such gardening consists of groundcover plants and climbing plants to cover the containment baseboards. The part that remains between the outside access to both pedestrians and ambulances is paved with a cement tile of 20 x 20 cm, lying on a concrete base. The existing trees will be respected and new trees will be planted in those holes which currently have no tree.
