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Day Care Center for People with Alzheimer’s Disease
Discipline : Architecture
Categories : Public Building / Institutional Building : Platinum Winner
The Day Care Center for People with Alzheimer's Disease arises from the aging of the region's population. When designed, there was no proven scheme for this typology. Therefore, the first task was to understand the logic of this typology and crystallize it into an architectural scheme. Another important starting point was the location of the Center within a double boundary situation (territorial-urban). This situation emphasizes th conjunction of landscapes in the building again. These ideas motivated the positioning of the building in the upper part of plot, to facilitate a stratum of it to rotate and tear the slope to create a new plain area. Then, in a second movement, part of that stratum rises another level vertically to protect th building on its urban front. Thus, a new line of the horizon is created, th main subject of the building, which not only symbolizes the synergy of the community in the face of this disease but also dialogues with the landscape. Once on the surface, the emerging stratum is excavated to house the different spaces. These are divided into four zones according to their degrees of privacy and use. Thus, it is designed with a clear and resounding scheme that optimizes th operation of the building, allowing for simple, simultaneous, and independent use of the different areas, and a maximized use of its energy resources. The rest of th plot is a large two-level garden which assures users direct contact with the outside and th landscape of their memory
