San Joan de Reus Hospital

This project is presented according to the urban requirements of the plot and the guidelines established by the functional program. It must be taken into account that the building, due to its public use and seize, is a very important benchmark for the new technological park and the city of Reus.

The objective of the newhospital building project is to take the most of the site features by improvingthe functional program and its link between the different areas and their surroundings, and also optimizing the vehicular traffic and flow of people. Allthis is accomplished in the final project organization. After evaluatingdifferent alternatives, the project is presented as a major horizontal unitwith light wells on which six two-storey hospitalization volumes rest as ifthey were floating. These volumes are linked toa large public circulation area (rambla);the slanting facade and the project of some smaller annex buildings give thehospital a more pleasant appearance along with the city, the technological parkand the new university campus.