BR29 Arquitectes, SLP

Santa Teresa Retirement Home

SANTA TERESA RETIREMENT HOME

BmesR29 Arquitectes

Santa Teresa Retirement Home
© Amaneceres Fotográficos / Joseph Ardiaca Rodríguez

ARCHITECTS
BmesR29 Arquitectes

LOCATION
Lleida, Spain

CATEGORY
Retirement

AREA
1107.31 m2

PROJECT YEAR
2009

PHOTOGRAPHS
Amaneceres Fotográficos / Joseph Ardiaca Rodríguez

Santa Teresa Retirement Home
© 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.

Santa Teresa Retirement Home
© Amaneceres Fotográficos / Joseph Ardiaca Rodríguez
Santa Teresa Retirement Home
© Amaneceres Fotográficos / Joseph Ardiaca Rodríguez

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.

Santa Teresa Retirement Home
© Amaneceres Fotográficos / Joseph Ardiaca Rodríguez
Santa Teresa Retirement Home
© Amaneceres Fotográficos / Joseph Ardiaca Rodríguez

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.

Santa Teresa Retirement Home
© Amaneceres Fotográficos / Joseph Ardiaca Rodríguez


Santa Teresa Retirement Home
© Amaneceres Fotográficos / Joseph Ardiaca Rodríguez
Santa Teresa Retirement Home
© Amaneceres Fotográficos / Joseph Ardiaca Rodríguez
Santa Teresa Retirement Home
© Amaneceres Fotográficos / Joseph Ardiaca Rodríguez
Santa Teresa Retirement Home
© Amaneceres Fotográficos / Joseph Ardiaca Rodríguez
Santa Teresa Retirement Home
© Amaneceres Fotográficos / Joseph Ardiaca Rodríguez
Santa Teresa Retirement Home
© Amaneceres Fotográficos / Joseph Ardiaca Rodríguez
Santa Teresa Retirement Home
© Amaneceres Fotográficos / Joseph Ardiaca Rodríguez
Santa Teresa Retirement Home
© Amaneceres Fotográficos / Joseph Ardiaca Rodríguez
Santa Teresa Retirement Home
© Amaneceres Fotográficos / Joseph Ardiaca Rodríguez


Santa Teresa Retirement Home
© Amaneceres Fotográficos / Joseph Ardiaca Rodríguez
Santa Teresa Retirement Home
© Amaneceres Fotográficos / Joseph Ardiaca Rodríguez


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Santa Teresa Retirement Home
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Santa Teresa Retirement Home
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BR29 Arquitectes, SLP
T +34 973 249655
BR29 Arquitectes, SLP
Carrer Comerç, 38, 25007 Lleida, Spain