HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY IN ALDEAMAYOR DE SAN MARTÍN. VALLADOLID
Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez. Contextos de Arquitectura y Urbanismo
Health
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Completed
The housing for the elderly in Adeamayor de San Martin (Valladolid) can not be understood without its context. Located on the border of a saline hidden wetland (Salgüeros de Aldeamayor) the aridity of the terrain and the infinite horizontality of the Spanish agricultural esplanade - dotted with small masses of pine trees - dominates the landscape, conditioning the implementation of any structure or artifact. In turn, our approaches were held by insistent ideas: provide our elderly with kind environment which promote to be in touch with nature, with the sun, but also enhancing the close relation between inhabitants of the building; the neighborly relations among chairs in the front door of the houses that are so recognizable in the rural areas of Castilla y León.
On the arid plain of the Castilla y León landscape we have placed a building formed by white concrete blocks paired in a striated way, marking an intense but subtle border with the ground.
The exterior is abstract and hard, as the environment. A seemingly insurmountable barrier, a shell to protect the interior that becomes kind, warm and complex. The external severe geometry contrasts with the inner complexity. The rooms are generated as small cells that clump together organically around the courtyard, creating interstitials and areas of relation, both to the courtyard itself as the interior. The perimeter corridor becomes a place rich in nuances and spaces in the manner of a small town where people can speak in front of the door of their room-houses fleeing the classic configuration of such centers more close to lugubrious hospitals than to kind and welcoming buildings. We wanted places that would allow the close relationship between inhabitants; the neighborly relations among chairs in the front door of the houses that are so recognizable in the rural areas of Castilla y León. More than a residence, the project aims to search for be a real home, so that psychological factors had to be essential in the project approach.
These cells make up the internal connecting paths of the building and coexist with public areas: activity room, fitness room, medical consultations and the large room where has been to create a careful spatiality natural lighting to create a peaceful and seductive atmosphere.
The whole work has been governed by the use of simple and cost-effective materials, without fanfare. Geometry, spatiality, light and careful treatment color and textures to get a warm and cozy interior protected by an abstract and rhythmic limit to the exterior.
Aldemayor de San Martín, Valladolid
España
JIREYSA ALDEAMAYOR - GOLF SENIOR
05/2017
2000 sq. m
Author: Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez. Contextos de Arquitectura y Urbanismo.
Bárbara Arranz González, Jesús J. Ruiz Alonso, Dorota Tokarska, Sergio Alonso Alonso.
Conedavi SA
Construction management: Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez / Javier Palomero Alonso
Jesús J. Ruiz Alonso, Pedro Iván Ramos.
Curriculum
He obtained his degree in 1998 at the ETSAV of University of Valladolid. In 2010, he obtained his Ph.D. in the University of Valladolid - for his thesis "GATEPAC 1928-1939" - being his tutor Mr. Juan Antonio Cortés. Since 2013 he is a professor of projects at the ETSAV of University of Valladolid. He has collaborated, as a visiting professor, in the ETSA La Salle, in the San Pablo CEU University and in the School of Design at the Al Ghurari University.
Since March 2012 he has been leading his office, together with the architects Bárbara Arranz, Jesús J. Ruiz, Dorota Tokarska and Sergio Alonso, under the firm Contextos de Arquitectura y Urbanismo. As an architect he has won several competitions, being his work recognized and awarded in the Spanish Architecture Awards, the American Architecture Prize and the Biennial of Spanish Architecture. His works have been published in numerous international magazines, among which Architecture Viva, Tectónica, Domus or Baumeister stands out.
