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Mario Corea

Mario Corea

Barcelona, ES

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Plastic Surgery Clinic

The project was conceived as a great eye looking towards the Collserola Mountains. Consequently, the clinic is positioned on the site in such a way as to obtain the best views, rather than being strictly aligned with Calle Víctor Hugo.

Access to the clinic is a prolongation of Calle Víctor Hugo, which as it enters the site is transformed into a plaza that on one side provides pedestrians with admittance to the building’s central space and, on the other, vehicles with access to the underground car park beneath the building.

The main building consists of two three-storey rectangular volumes linked by a third cylindrical central volume that absorbs people’s movement, both vertical and horizontal, inside the building and generates double and triple heights, thereby endowing the clinic with the spatial quality and scale appropriate to a building of these characteristics. Annexed to this main volume, the small box-like spa practically melds into the surrounding terrain.

The façades of these volumes are conceived as a curtain wall that endows the entire building with transparency. The two horizontal wings, where the activities of the clinic take place, feature different types of glass that generate areas of greater or lesser transparency, depending on specific use needs, while the central, public, volume is completely transparent.

The center is conceived as a system that organizes service subsystems in such a way that public, medical and technical circulations are segregated in accordance with a hierarchical order, thereby generating clearly demarcated circuits and avoiding interference.


 
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Status: Built
Location: Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain
My Role: Author
Additional Credits: AUTHORS
Mario Corea
Eugenio Tioni

COLLABORATORS
María Ceballos
Alba Casanovas
Helena López
Marta Martí