cms villaverde public healthcare center. madrid

the health-care center program is developed extensively in a single floor. the various program units are ordered by generating a sparse irregular orthogonal grid, where 13 yards staggered distributed between public and private placements through three (non)-parallel corridors. as opposed to this light system, atomized by the courtyards, the rotunda and impenetrable facade is conceived as a mass of glass modulated continuous and blind. compared to their twin buildings, the cms villaverde resolve the contrast between two opposite situations in a more smooth one, which is expressed by the use of a tectonic constructive system: metal frames with glass and polycarbonate enclosures with varying degrees of opacity and transparency . the building from outside is destined to camouflage where the white glass reflects the surrounding space without allowing an interior-exterior visual relationship yet remains almost disappearing. from inside the contact with the outside through the vertical closure is eased from the world of shadow, shadows cast on the translucent walls of what happens on the other hand, pedestrians, trees, etc. the transparent qualities of glass and mirror visions multiply reflected symmetry, likewise the qualities of reflection and diffuse lighting of translucent polycarbonate vertical panels help create a spacious and luminous interior environment with a certain sense atmospheric .