Miralles Tagliabue Embt, SLP

Kálida Sant Pau Center

Kálida Sant Pau Center
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KÁLIDA SANT PAU CENTER

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT

ARCHITECT
Miralles Tagliabue EMBT

LEAD ARCHITECT
Benedetta Tagliabue – EMBT

MAIN CONTRACTOR
Construcciones Pérez Villora S.a.

MANUFACTURERS
Andreu World, Bover, Bulthaup, Cappellini, Flos, Kettal, Listone Giordano, Marset, Moroso, Mutina, Point, Roca, Santa & Cole, Viccarbe, Acor, American Hardwood Export Council, Arlex, Casa Gay, Gan, Kvadrat, +1

ENGINEERING FACILITIES
Proisotec Enginyeria Slp

PROJECT DIRECTOR
Joan Callís – EMBT

PROJECT COORDINATOR
Valentina Nicol Noris – EMBT

CONTRACT
Encargo Directo

STRUCTURE ENGINEER
Bernúz Fernández Arquitectes Slp

M&E CONSULTANT
Pyf Sl

LANDSCAPE CONSULTANT
Miralles Tagliabue Embt

PHOTOGRAPHS
Lluc Miralles

AREA
400.0 m2

CONSTRUCTION/M2
2.769,00 Euro/m2

CONSTRUCTION COST
1.850.000,00 Euro

PROJECT YEAR
2019

LOCATION
Barcelona, Spain

CATEGORY
Healthcare Center

Text description provided by architect.

The Kálida Centre is a space of emotional, social and practical support for cancer patients and people around them.

Kálida Sant Pau Center
© Lluc Miralles
Kálida Sant Pau Center
© Lluc Miralles

It is a home opened to everyone, where qualified professionals offer their help. A house to meet other people, a house where to find a quiet retreat or to have a cup of tea.

The plot is located between the new hospital and the original Art Nouveau buildings. It is parallel to a new road defined by the special urban plan of the area and follows the orthogonal plan of the original project.

Kálida Sant Pau Center
© Lluc Miralles
Kálida Sant Pau Center
© Lluc Miralles
Kálida Sant Pau Center
© Lluc Miralles

The project includes a small 400 m2 building and a wide garden within the general green area of the building complex.

The fundamental idea of the project is to plant some new coloured flowers in the garden of the original hospital, and so the centre is designed as a garden pavilion where the boundaries between interior and exterior blur and vary. The building offers privacy, light, retreat and protection around the garden.

The building is organised in two floors of about 200 m2. The ground floor is situated in a lower level than the complex around. It is conceived as a sequence of flexible spaces, opened to a garden protected by walls, pergolas and vegetation that can accommodate varied activities.

Kálida Sant Pau Center
© Lluc Miralles
Kálida Sant Pau Center
© Lluc Miralles

In the ground floor we can find the kitchen, a hall and a high ceiling dining room, a small library and a multipurpose room.

Every room is surrounded by greenery, and the situation of the patios, trees and pergolas is meant to hide the surrounding hospital facilities and to respect the privacy of the Kálida Centre users.

Kálida Sant Pau Center
© Lluc Miralles
Kálida Sant Pau Center
© Lluc Miralles
Kálida Sant Pau Center
© Lluc Miralles

Here in the ground floor is the main access of the building, which has direct connection to the oncology area of the nearby hospital through a paved area between them.

This area also allows the access to firefighters in cases of emergency.

The rooms on the upper floor, situated at same height that the rest of the complex, lay around the double-height over the dining room. The façades facing the Art Nouveau buildings towards south are more transparent but protected by wooden blinds to ensure privacy.

Kálida Sant Pau Center
© Lluc Miralles
Kálida Sant Pau Center
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The building façade is a brick wall with glazed ceramic insertions, put together in a variable composition of colours and textures.

The wall turns into a ceramic latticework to filter the Mediterranean sunlight, to focus the views of the environment, to provide air circulation and to protect the privacy of inner spaces.

Kálida Sant Pau Center
© Lluc Miralles
Kálida Sant Pau Center
© Lluc Miralles

The whole project has been inspired by the richness of materials, textures, colours, geometries, drawings and greenery of the original Hospital complex.

The architect wanted to keep the full original language of Domènech i Montaner’s architecture and so it is reflected in the new gardens, the façades and the roof design.

Kálida Sant Pau Center
© Lluc Miralles


Kálida Sant Pau Center
© Lluc Miralles
Kálida Sant Pau Center
© Lluc Miralles
Kálida Sant Pau Center
© Lluc Miralles
Kálida Sant Pau Center
© Lluc Miralles


Kálida Sant Pau Center

Kálida Sant Pau Center

Kálida Sant Pau Center


Kálida Sant Pau Center
Ground Floor
Kálida Sant Pau Center
First Floor


Kálida Sant Pau Center
Kálida Sant Pau Center

Miralles Tagliabue Embt, SLP
T +34 934 125342
Miralles Tagliabue Embt, SLP
Ptge. de la Pau, 10 bis, Ciutat Vella, 08002 Barcelona, Spain