It has road access from the old road that crosses the town, now in the process of conversion to an avenue, and where a significant amount of traffic is concentrated. The urban planning regulations allow practically total freedom in the proposal to be carried out within the endowment plot 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. Thus, a regular volume is defined, capable of housing on the first floor the spaces destined for the main primary care and administration areas.
The appropriate arrangement of this volume within the ground plan of the plot allows, on the one hand, to generate the entrance to the staff parking and the loading and unloading area of the semi-basement floor, through the west party wall, and on the other hand, to organize from the confluence of the streets in the northeast corner, the most accessible, the day and emergency entrances, discriminating them by facades, while making it possible to concentrate in a single point the reception areas of both spaces.
Access to the day area is directly from the street it faces, while the entrance to the emergency room is organized through its own interior road, separated from the street by the interposition of a volume intended for facilities, thus avoiding the significant traffic of the same and allowing it to properly perform the operations of arrival and departure of patients.
The upper floor contains the rest of the care program of a more specific nature and, therefore, with a lower influx of users. The second floor volume, like the first floor, adopts a regular shape, but of smaller dimensions.
Externally, the first floor and second floor are treated differently to show their formal independence. The first floor adopts the appearance of a basement, with a continuous treatment of white stucco, while the upper floor acquires a lighter image by cladding it continuously with a slat of aluminum.
To emphasize this differentiation, the upper volume slides over the lower one, thus creating the necessary covered access to the emergency area.
The semi-basement floor is intended for service spaces and facilities, as well as the loading and unloading area directly related to the storage spaces.
