It’s a considerable challenge to make a large, windowless, one-story floor plate of a neighborhood health clinic into a tectonic play of solids and voids, somehow drawing daylight into the interiors from 14 small terraces, and, all the while, staying within a tight budget and adhering to the exacting standards of a public project. The clinic, in the working-class Madrid neighborhood of San Blas, was designed by the three principals who make up estudio.entresitio—brother and sister, María and José María Hurtado de Mendoza Wahrolen and César Jiménez de Tejada Benavides.
Conceived as a prototype, the softly textured exterior of board-formed concrete is enlivened by an irregular profile, created by the towers enclosing rooftop mechanical equipment. With interior planes of cobalt-blue tile, the towers function as reflectors beside the terraces, forming a connection with the exterior along the vertical rather than the horizontal axis.
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