MEMORY
The building is planned to be a day center for people with Alzheimer’s disease for up to 80 users. Due to the type of users that will use the center and in order to ensure maximum privacy, we start the process of design around a central courtyard, with a dimensions 28,60 x 18.60 meters. The courtyard provides light and ventilation to the whole building as well as supporting most of the flows and allows residents to use it as outdoor space. The patio allows to understand easily the whole building and acts as guidance for users and helps control by their caregivers.
Use spaces are arranged on one level, grouped into 4 packages: those related to access and site management, those for the users, areas for health and rehabilitation services and facilities area. Linked to each group of spaces there is always a core of adapted toilets.
The living rooms and workshops have been geared towards the green area that surrounds the building. All these activity areas are planned by the way that they can split or join on the basis of the space required.
LOCATION
C/ Doctor Ferreira Quintana, s/n Elda (Alicante)
BUILT AREA
1376,99m2
TEAM
ARCHITECT:
Gonzalo Fayos Martínez
Antonio Galiano Garrigós
ARCHITECT PROYECT COORDINATOR:
Amparo Benet García
CONSTRUCTION SURVEYOR:
Almudena Espinos Fernández
THECNICAL ARCHITECT:
Rosa Ana Muñoz Ávila
FACILITIES
Moises Mula Parres
STRUCTURE
Florentino Regalado & Asociados S.L.
PHOTOGRAPHER:
Duccio Malagamba
CONTRIBUTORS:
Beatriz Berenguer Herrero
Jaume Chicoy Mira
Evelin Cintio Grippa
Maria Conesa Sánchez
Sandra Escoda Pérez
Lorena Jäger Merino