Philippe Gibert Architecte

Biological Medicine Center

Biological Medicine Center
© Martin Garcia de la Huerta
Biological Medicine Center
© Martin Garcia de la Huerta

Biological Medicine Center

Philippe Game Y Camilo Corces

ARCHITECTS
Camilo Corces, Philippe Game

MANUFACTURERS
Chc

PHOTOGRAPHS
Martin Garcia De La Huerta

AREA
233 m²

YEAR
2013

LOCATION
La Florida, Chile

CATEGORY
Medical facilities

Biological Medicine Center
© Martin Garcia de la Huerta
Biological Medicine Center
© Martin Garcia de la Huerta

Text description provided by architect.

The Capital City of Chile, Santiago is known for being one of the most contaminated of Latin America.

Biological Medicine Center
© Martin Garcia de la Huerta
Biological Medicine Center
© Martin Garcia de la Huerta

This Medical Center is located in the South-East side of the city; which is in the foothills of the Andes Mountain Range.

The assignment was to establish the silence, the stillness and contemplation for the development of Biological Medicine in Chile. 

Biological Medicine Center
© Martin Garcia de la Huerta
Biological Medicine Center
© Martin Garcia de la Huerta

This medicine can be defined as the encounter between the Oriental wisdom and German medicine. Now the challenge was to generate inside this noisy city a space for silence and contemplation.

This leads to the creation of an inner courtyard with a lagoon formed by rocks of the Andes Range which through 2 waterfalls achieve to create the silence.

Biological Medicine Center
© Martin Garcia de la Huerta
Biological Medicine Center
© Martin Garcia de la Huerta

A curved lattice made of wood sticks build a more intime condition facing the street, and conforming with these two elements the inner courtyard.

An Architectonic element which gives foot to a permanent relation between the interior and the exterior. Giving this way a temporality given by the vegetation and the changing of the seasons.

Biological Medicine Center
Biological Medicine Center
© Martin Garcia de la Huerta

The waiting room, opened to this courtyard gives to the time of waiting, a condition of value a contemplation. This time, which normally is long, is a gift in this contemporary life.

By the other side the planters gives company to the interior paths of the project, as well as the medical boxes.

Biological Medicine Center
© Martin Garcia de la Huerta
Biological Medicine Center

So by this way the Doctors and the Medical team are not only present in the constant procession of patients, but also can witness the temporality of the nature surrounding them.

So, we can say that being the plants and nature part of the origin of Medicine, they will be the charged of leaving an open window in front of other traditional medical centers, giving this way part of the testimony of their origin.

Biological Medicine Center
© Martin Garcia de la Huerta


Biological Medicine Center
Biological Medicine Center
© Martin Garcia de la Huerta
Biological Medicine Center
© Martin Garcia de la Huerta
Biological Medicine Center
© Martin Garcia de la Huerta
Biological Medicine Center
© Martin Garcia de la Huerta


Biological Medicine Center
Site Plan
Biological Medicine Center
Site Plan
Biological Medicine Center
Floor Plan
Biological Medicine Center
Site Plan


Biological Medicine Center
Elevation
Biological Medicine Center
Elevation


Biological Medicine Center
Sketch
Biological Medicine Center
Sketch

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