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Barcelona

The VHIR of Vall d'Hebron Hospital turns black

Target

Hospital Vall d'Hebron has commissioned BAAS and Espinet Ubach to redesign a campus that is currently a chaos of buildings in disarray with serious accessibility problems. A large-scale intervention that begins with the VHIR research centre, for which the architects propose a large park connected to the adjacent neighbourhoods and the city, improving access and increasing permeability.

In a characteristic black colour, the furniture meets all the technical requirements for ergonomics and functionality needed to equip a public workplace and has the highest certification.

Solution

Based on a general reflection on the Hospital Campus, BAAS and Espinet Ubach propose a series of strategies, which include sponging up the site by demolishing obsolete buildings and replacing them with semi-buried ones; building two horizontal planes that connect it with the city; and creating a new vertical axis of access by means of escalators.

With a floor plan defined by three courtyards, around which the laboratories are grouped and routes are generated that alternate indoor and outdoor spaces, leisure and meeting spaces, and terraces running along the façade, the VHIR is a building embedded in the mountain, with a single façade that becomes an extension of the landscape of the Collserola mountain.

Integrated into the architecture, in a black colour that contrasts with the white furniture in the laboratory areas, and with the most sustainable upholstery possible, in recycled fibre, the Actiu furniture chosen for the office spaces fulfils all the technical requirements necessary to equip an office.The Actiu furniture chosen for the office spaces meets all the technical requirements for equipping a public workplace, and has the highest product, ergonomic and sustainability certification.

Even the Prisma operating tables, which did not exist in a black finish, incorporate a new version in this colour which has been added to the catalogue. To allow for different uses and configurations, in the largest meeting room the Trama multi-purpose table on castors has been chosen, electrified to allow the use of computers during meetings. The Stay, Wing and Noom chairs, and the Tabula tables, are other of the programmes used.

Architects/Interior designers
BAAS (Jordi Badia, Jero Gutiérrez) + Espinet Ubach (Miquel Espinet)
Location
Hospital Vall d'Hebron Campus, Barcelona
Year
2024
Customer
Vall d'Hebron Institute of Research (VHIR), CatSalut, Vall d'Hebron
Area
17.000 m2