Infanta Luisa Hospital

Infanta Luisa Hospital
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Infanta Luisa Hospital

Miguel Blázquez Arquitectos

ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
Miguel Blázquez Gómez Landero

INSTALLATIONS
Jg Ingenieros

BUILDER
Constructora San José S.a.

SCULPTURE 
José Antonio Navarro Arteaga

HEALTH AND SAFETY COORDINATOR
Pedro Villar Llanes

MANUFACTURERS
Trespa, Alucobond, Duravit, Vescom

COLLABORATORS
Virginia Gómez Ramírez, Pablo Canela Gómez, Carlos López Palacios

TECHNICAL ARCHITECTS
Manuel Delgado Martín, Juan Antonio Molina Pérez, Manuel J. Cansino Conejero

STRUCTURE 
Calconsa

PHOTOGRAPHS
Jesús Granada

AREA 
6335 M²

LOCATION
Sevilla, Spain

YEAR
2012

CATEGORY
Hospital

The project consists of remodeling and expanding a hospital located in Triana, a well-known borough of the city, which was an old surgery building in Cruz Roja.

Infanta Luisa Hospital
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Infanta Luisa Hospital
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The idea for the building was to support the quality health care that the center gives to their patients, as well as solving the existing circulation problems that arised after different changes and expansions, which gave the building a mixed and dilapidated image.

Keeping in mind these premises, the project was an investment that expanded significantly the hospital facilities and provided the building with a uniform appearance.

Infanta Luisa Hospital
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Infanta Luisa Hospital
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The proposed design includes a new floor mainly destined to hospitalization, with 27 new rooms.

A new basement which takes up the whole central courtyard, where we will find the diagnosis service and the last generation treatments like haemodynamic .

Infanta Luisa Hospital
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Infanta Luisa Hospital
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In this basement, we will also find a new linear accelerator, which needs thick and high density concrete walls.

A new building, located in the middle of the courtyard, works as an independent part which solves the new links and defines the fourth façade of a big atrium.

Infanta Luisa Hospital
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Infanta Luisa Hospital
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The plan of this building includes the cafe on the ground floor, new delivery rooms on the first floor, hospitalization rooms on second floor, and the chapel on the last floor, where it is possible to find a Jose Antonio Navarro Arteaga's sculpture: the Virgin of Miracles.

The last part of the patio is a second atrium, which works as a hall for the radiology service.

Infanta Luisa Hospital
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Infanta Luisa Hospital
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The outer façade is an important component, considering that it had to display the intervention magnitude, join the new and existing parts, and reflect the technology which the building contains, as well as show a delicate architecture as a public building.

We designed a new skin based on natural stone and aluminum, with long glass brise-soleils and a large cornice, in order to emphasize the building horizontally.

Infanta Luisa Hospital
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Infanta Luisa Hospital
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Infanta Luisa Hospital
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Finally, we can find two special elements, the entrance canopies which note the different access.


Infanta Luisa Hospital
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Infanta Luisa Hospital
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Infanta Luisa Hospital
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Infanta Luisa Hospital
Ground Floor Plan
Infanta Luisa Hospital
Third Floor Plan