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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. /
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