The new health center of Campillo de Altobuey, in the province of Cuenca, is located on the outskirts of the urban center to the west of the town. The trapezoidal-shaped plot is only bordered on one of its sides by a road, the other three sides being adjoining with other plots. The urban planning regulations allow practically total freedom in the proposal to be carried out within the plot of land it occupies.
The approach to the building is based on the premise of creating a formally controlled volume, avoiding the generation of an “oil slick” floor plan as a result of the sum of the proposed functional program. In this way, a regular volume is defined, capable of housing all the spaces of the functional program on a single floor.
A rectangular building is projected where a series of courtyards together with the facades, will allow us to provide the correct lighting and ventilation to all the rooms that require it, adapting the space to the enjoyment of users. The layout of the courtyards allows an adequate energy and light control, they are a bioclimatic element that enables a controlled lighting of the areas and natural ventilation, as well as avoiding the direct incidence of solar radiation in the different rooms, besides allowing us to provide different elements of the program with the necessary privacy, hiding them from direct visuals from the outside. Likewise, the use of a courtyard located in the center of the building will allow us to create a circulation around it, which will favor an intimate relationship of all the spaces, providing the center with greater functionality.
Thus the volumetric configuration of the building is made as a rectangular parallelepiped perforated by two courtyards and where one of its corners is broken to make access to the building through a porch that allows the covered arrival of both users and patients who can leave the ambulance.
The organization scheme of the plant is made by three longitudinal bands perpendicular to the northeast facade where the main entrance is located, generating around the central band a circulation that allows the connection and relationship of all the spaces of the center, a band facing the southeast facade of the building where the consultations and waiting, kinesitherapy room and the public health office are located, the latter related to the entrance hall.A central band that includes the main courtyard along with the reception area directly related to the access, changing rooms and cleaning store, a band facing the northwest facade where the residence of health personnel, facilities and central warehouse are located, the latter intimately related to a service entrance to the center and the library classroom intimately related to the entrance hall due to its multipurpose use.
Internally, the building is organized around two courtyards that allow light to enter the waiting and reception areas, as well as the staff residence area, generating controlled and pleasant environments for the user. The different spaces receive a careful and durable material treatment, always looking for a spatial and visual continuity of the different areas, with partition walls covered with natural wood and phenolic boards that are interrupted at the height of the lintels of the doors allowing the continuity of the ceiling plane, always seeking to create a suitable working environment for both staff and users.
