Paüls doctor surgery

The doctor surgery is a small building integrated into the fabric of Paüls, a municipality in the comarca of Baix Ebre.

The project defines an access path that suggests serenity and calm until being attended by a doctor. Rather than an object to admire from the outside, it wants to be a place from which to look towards the mountains, with visual relationship with the landscape.

The building is only one floor high, like the neighbouring buildings, so that it could be integrated into its context, and it uses local resources of the popular construction of this area. A porch with double door and low roof, as a transition outside-inside, leads to the lobby and waiting room, where the space expands getting to the top height of the roof. Here the landscape can be viewed through a large window at the bottom. Neutral natural lighting from north side accentuates the sense of serenity. On one side of the waiting room is placed the access to vertical communications that lead to the service spaces in the basement. On the other side, two large doors give access to medical wards. Two distinct environments are defined in these wards: the area of attention, with high ceiling in continuity with the waiting room with a large window; and the cure zone, protected and warm, with low ceilings and indirect natural lighting.  

Doctor surgery, Paüls, Baix Ebre, Spain
Program: surgery
Architects: Vora (Pere Buil, Toni Riba)
Project Team: Eva Cotman, Jordi Palà
Structure: Manuel Arguijo Y Asociados
Services: Aia (Activitats i Installacions Arquitectòniques)
Budget Control: Guillem Llorens (Sco)
Contractor: Construccions Curto / Mj Gruas S.A.
Client: Gisa (Gestió D’infraestructures S.A.)
Area: 185 sqm
Completion: 2014