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Alfonso Casares, who heads the architecture studio Aidhos, explains to LifeStyle the universe of the construction of hospitals and its evolution over time. He also reveals the projects on which he is working now. Text: MARTA SAHELICES ALFONSO CASARES An intelligible, human and reasonable architecture Alfonso Casares asserts that he would like to make in the future a ABOVE Architect revision of what hospitals imply and a serious analysis of the works carried Alfonso Casares. out so far in the hospital field, but meanwhile he does not stop working and TOP General lecture designing big hospitals, and fully renovating these spaces that prove “so complicated for their close relationship to life and health”. From his studio room in the University of Alicante. OPPOSITE PAGE Aidhos, devoted to hospital architecture and engineering design and made Hospital of Calahorra, up of a team of 25 professionals, he talks about the constant evolution and immediate future of these highly systematised and also highly organised structures. Just one piece of information: the cost of building a hospital equals that of its operation during a whole year. How would you define the style of architecture and engineering La Rioja. 68 design of hospitals that you and your team practice? 69
RIGHT Interior of the Hospital Puerta de Hierro in Majadahonda. FAR RIGHT Hospital Reina Sofía, in Córdoba. BELOW Exterior view of the University Hospital of Granada. “He who reviews the history of the hospitals in the last 40 or 50 years and thinks that they are consolidated into permanent models, is – in my opinion – wrong” “What we are really proud of is having devoted ourselves throughout the last 30 years to the hospital field almost exclusively” ABOVE Hospital of San Juan, in Alicante. LEFT Exterior view of the Hospital of Montecelo, in the Galician province of Pontevedra. Hospitals are highly complex buildings, for systematised structure – very complex, but also tasks. But the Directing Plan has evolved to And the most innovative... this type of architecture is complicated by its very well-organised. These big structures are be understood rather as the representation We’ve built a hospital in Almansa for the close connection with the health and lives of in an ongoing process of deep change and, of of life inside an organization with a very fast Sescam (Castilla-La Mancha Health Services) people. We have largely endeavoured to make course, the health system seems to be in really development over time (such as a hospital that I believe has the value of innovating the these buildings intelligible, human and reasonable. We believe that a good condition (hospitals are the most important buildings in the Spanish is). Precisely the Directing Plan is a sort of strategic plan for a hospital understanding of a small hospital, a local hospital. And La Fe might have hospital should have clarity, luminosity and a comfort that is not like the Communities, as they are a social indicator). The future pursues new infrastructure which, besides, linked to the maintenance of hospital buildings been the one that has most allowed us to take an in-depth approach for one needed in a home or an office, but a more general comfort, which is hospital models. I am certain that these models are not just in our minds, but – very complicated – and to the tremendous deterioration suffered by them more complex structures, since it is the most exacting hospital, the most more complex at once. actually, the very nature of hospitals and their operation demands a large in general and, more specifically, by the equipment they have inside, it is a demanding from the organization and quality viewpoints. Would you rather engage in a building project for a new hospital degree of organisation. Computers and communications have already taken very interesting method, a discipline, a work product, to put it somehow. In Do you have any projects for the future? or in a large renovation? an extraordinary step forward in the control of the organisation: they have sum: how planning should face the future of an already existing hospital. We’re working on a very interesting and special collaboration project: a Engaging in a large renovation never fails to be really interesting work, brought about a modification of the old models. Of course, he who reviews Each hospital has its strategic plan and should have its functional Directing private clinic for Bilbao’s health company IMQ that we are building by the as it implies getting to the heart of a big organisation with many people – the history of hospitals in the last 40 or 50 years and thinks that they have Plan almost from the moment when it starts operating. Estuary together with Carlos Ferrater and his studio. We are also excited people who worry a great deal about their work. However, a new hospital is consolidated in permanent models, I frankly think that he is wrong. What projects do you feel most proud of? about a series of works currently underway in Portugal: the renovation of a something that can be more easily understood. The nature of the problems What does the Directing Plan with which Aidhos works We feel really happy because we have devoted ourselves almost exclusively maternity hospital in Porto (a very amusing and interesting work), and now is different, and it is indeed more brilliant and easier to face. Obviously, as consist of? to the hospital field for the last 30 years. We indeed feel proud of that. But, we are about to start building a very small local hospital. And we maintain an architect, I’d rather build a new hospital. The concept of the Directing Plan has many possible interpretations. The more specifically, we are now immersed in three works in which we have an uncontained excitement over the renovations of Madrid’s important Is there actually such a thing as a ‘new hospital model’? easiest and most primary: the group of surveys and plans to carry out a invested lots of time and expectations: Valencia’s Hospital La Fe; Hospital buildings of Hospital Clínico San Carlos and La Paz, in which we’ve been 70 Yes, there is. A hospital is a building with a highly schematised, highly large renovation or an integral renovation of a hospital – basically complex Son Dureta in Palma de Mallorca and Granada’s University Hospital. working for a long time. / 71
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