Girona Health Campus Hospital

The New Girona Health Campus materialises the ambition of a building complex that offers an urban response with a unitary and adapted character, linking the municipalities of Girona and Salt through an operation integrated into the local ecosystem. The proposal favours the relational character that permeates the idea of a health campus in which innovation, knowledge transfer and patient welfare are intertwined through a sense of belonging to the great community that public institutions represent.

CONNECTION WITH THE TERRITORY

The strategic position of the Health Campus strengthens its links with the local ecosystem and infrastructure of the surrounding area. On the one hand, the obvious connection with the Mediterranean Motorway naturally expands its area of influence. On the other hand, the proximity of the Riera de Masrocs allows for the continuity of the ecological and landscape conditions of the city of Girona.

CONTINUITY OF THE LANDSCAPE

The presence and articulation of the vegetal landscape on the Campus is one of the fundamental elements of this project. This relationship between the built complex and its surroundings is produced by giving continuity to the existing ecological structures located to the east of the plot and breaking up the built complex as much as possible so that the relationship with the exterior space must necessarily be experienced.

AN INTEGRATED CAMPUS

The Health Campus is located in the urban fabric, recognising the integrating and institutional value that it must fulfil in the city. Its permeability enhances the transversality of the plot in a north-south direction, connecting the axes located on both sides of the plot. A central east-west axis threads all the buildings on the east side, giving continuity to the hospital's "boulevard", thus completing the creation of a robust and easily understandable urban structure. The project is configured by autonomous elements that relate as much as possible to the landscape, encouraging the multiple possibility of meeting and dialogue between professionals, the world of research and teaching and patients, reinforcing the idea of a hospital campus. This interrelation is offered in a specific way in the faculty and the research programme, while it is offered in a more veiled way in the hospital programme.

CLOISTER STRUCTURES

University architecture takes on the cloister form, a classical, compact and highly flexible organisation that assigns the central tree-lined courtyard the role of a meeting place for users. The faculties of medicine and pharmacy have a large circular garden around which the circulation ring takes on different dimensions, creating spaces for informal work and meetings between students and professors. The business hub has a large open lobby, another of the many collaborative meeting places on campus.

THE UNIVERSITY AND THE HUB

The programme of the medical school and the HUB is broken up into a series of buildings linked by a large pergola, each of which houses a specific part of its content. This dispersed condition gives a leading role to the outdoor space where teachers, students and professionals can meet and exchange experiences.