Santa Teresa Retirement Home
SANTA TERESA RETIREMENT HOME
BmesR29 Arquitectes
ARCHITECTS
BmesR29 Arquitectes
LOCATION
Lleida, Spain
CATEGORY
Retirement
AREA
1107.31 m2
PROJECT YEAR
2009
PHOTOGRAPHS
Amaneceres Fotográficos / Joseph Ardiaca Rodríguez
Text description provided by architect.
BmesR29 Arquitectes rehabilitated and added an addition onto the Santa Teresa retirement home.
The existing building was an isolated three story volume that projected westward with a continuous facade in street Pica d'Estats.
The addition almost doubled the size of the building due to functional needs of the retirement home.
With such a large addition the architects tried to avoid adding more volumetric variations that would appear artificial.
They aimed to have the building read as a single volume.
They partly accomplished this by using a protective outer solar system of vertical aluminum louver that solved the old problem of intrusion in the original building.
These louvers also shape the interior light and with the continuous neutral floors that unify the home and give prominence to the different inputs of filtered light from the outside.
