Opening of the Kálida Sant Pau Centre in Barcelona by Benedetta Tagliabue - EMBT

10/05/2019. [BCN] Spain 09.05.19
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The Kálida Sant Pau Centre opened on May 9th, with a sensitive design, conceived to embrace, to accompany and to improve the life of people with cancer. The building, designed by Benedetta Tagliabue – EMBT, is integrated in the Art Nouveau complex of Sant Pau Hospital in Barcelona, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Kálida Foundation is the driving force behind the project, which is part of the international network of Maggie's Centres, a foundation dedicated to the development of spaces for the caring of cancer patients, located in different cities and which now enters Spain by the hand of the studio of Barcelona.

Kálida Sant Pau Centre in Barcelona by Benedetta Tagliabue - EMBT. Photograph by Lluc Miralles- EMBT

Kálida Sant Pau Centre in Barcelona by Benedetta Tagliabue - EMBT. Photograph by Lluc Miralles- EMBT

Kálida Sant Pau Centre in Barcelona by Benedetta Tagliabue - EMBT. Photograph by Paola Acevedo

Kálida Sant Pau Centre in Barcelona by Benedetta Tagliabue - EMBT. Photograph by Lluc Miralles- EMBT

Site Plan Kálida Sant Pau Centre in Barcelona by Benedetta Tagliabue - EMBT. Photograph by Lluc Miralles- EMBT

Ground floor Kálida Sant Pau Centre in Barcelona by Benedetta Tagliabue - EMBT. Photograph by Lluc Miralles- EMBTálida Sant Pau Centre in Barcelona by Benedetta Tagliabue - EMBT. Photograph by Lluc Miralles- EMBT

First floor Kálida First floor plan. Kálida Sant Pau Centre in Barcelona. Photograph by Benedetta Tagliabue - EMBT.Sant Pau Centre in Barcelona by Benedetta Tagliabue - EMBT. Photograph by Lluc Miralles- EMBT

First floor plan. Kálida Sant Pau Centre in Barcelona by Benedetta Tagliabue - EMBT.

Section. Kálida Sant Pau Centre in Barcelona. Photograph by Benedetta Tagliabue - EMBT.

Section. Kálida Sant Pau Centre in Barcelona by Benedetta Tagliabue - EMBT.

Section. Kálida Sant Pau Centre in Barcelona. Photograph by Benedetta Tagliabue - EMBT.

Elevation. Kálida Sant Pau Centre in Barcelona. Photograph by Benedetta Tagliabue - EMBT.

The main objective of the project by Benedetta Tagliabue – EMBT is to improve the life quality of the patients with camcer and their close families. The architect has poured out her own experience in the design of the building, after living directly the disease process of her husband Enric Miralles.

The building has two floors and an extensive garden. The ground floor is conceived as flexible space, opened to the surrounding garden. There we can find a hall and a high-ceiling dining room, a small library and a multipurpose room. The interior design has been developed by Patricia Urquiola.

The building scale, the design of the façades and the garden establish a respectful dialogue with his outstanding environment: the Sant Pau Hospital complex in Barcelona, built at the beginning of 20th century, designed by Lluís Domènech i Montaner’s —one of the Art Nouveau [Modernisme, in Catalan] masters in Spain—.

Description of project by Benedetta Tagliabue - EMBT

The Kálida Centre is a space of emotional, social and practical support for cancer patients and people around them. It is a home opened to everyone, where qualified professionals offer their help. A house to meet other people, a house where to find a quiet retreat or to have a cup of tea.

The plot is located between the new hospital and the original Art Nouveau buildings. It is parallel to a new road defined by the special urban plan of the area and follows the orthogonal plan of the original project.

The project includes a small 400 m2 building and a wide garden within the general green area of the building complex. The fundamental idea of the project is to plant some new coloured flowers in the garden of the original hospital, and so the centre is designed as a garden pavilion where the boundaries between interior and exterior blur and vary. The building offers privacy, light, retreat and protection around the garden.

The building is organised in two floors of about 200 m2. The ground floor is situated in a lower level than the complex around. It is conceived as a sequence of flexible spaces, opened to a garden protected by walls, pergolas and vegetation that can accommodate varied activities. In the ground floor we can find the kitchen, a hall and a high ceiling dining room, a small library and a multipurpose room. Every room is surrounded by greenery, and the situation of the patios, trees and pergolas is meant to hide the surrounding hospital facilities and to respect the privacy of the Kálida Centre users. Here in the ground floor is the main access of the building, which has direct connection to the oncology area of the nearby hospital through a paved area between them. This area also allows the access to firefighters in cases of emergency.

The rooms on the upper floor, situated at same height that the rest of the complex, lay around the double-height over the dining room. The façades facing the Art Nouveau buildings towards south are more transparent but protected by wooden blinds to ensure privacy. The building façade is a brick wall with glazed ceramic insertions, put together in a variable composition of colours and textures. The wall turns into a ceramic latticework to filter the Mediterranean sunlight, to focus the views of the environment, to provide air circulation and to protect the privacy of inner spaces.

The whole project has been inspired by the richness of materials, textures, colours, geometries, drawings and greenery of the original Hospital complex. The architect wanted to keep the full original language of Domènech i Montaner’s architecture and so it is reflected in the new gardens, the façades and the roof design.

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Architects

Benedetta Tagliabue – EMBT. Project Director.- Joan Callís – EMBT. Project Coordinator.- Valentina Nicol Noris – EMBT.

Design team

Enrico Narcisi, Gabriele Rotelli, Marianna Mincarelli, , Paola Amato, Helena Carì, Astrid Steegmans, Liza Zanin, Federico Volpi, Letizia Artioli, Giovanni Vergantini, Paula Gheorgue, Esther Saliente Soler, Vincenzo Cicero, Sofia Barberena, Philip Lemanski, Marco Nucifora, María Cano Gómez, Carlo Consalvo, Luis Angello Coarite Asencio, Teymour Benet, Cecilia Simonetta, Edurne Oyanguren, Yilin Mao, Marilena Petropoulou, Ludovica Rolando, Mikaela Patrick, Erez Levinberg, Pablo López Prol, Mabel Aguerre.

Collaborators

Structure Engineer.- Bernúz Fernández Arquitectes SLP. MEP.- Proisotec Enginyeria SLP. M&E Consultant.- PYF SL. Landscape Consultant.- Miralles Tagliabue EMBT. Measurements and Budget.-Borrell Jover SLP. Interior Design.- Patricia Urquiola Studio.

Builder

Construcciones Pérez Villora S.A.

Stakeholder

Fundació Kálida, Nous Cims, Fundació Privada de l’Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Maggie’s Centres.

Area

Gross floor area.- 400 m². Outdoor area.- 950 m²

Cost

1,850,000.00 Euros. Construction/m².- 2,769.00 Euros/m²

Dates

Concept Design .- 2010. Basic and Executive Project.- 2016. First Stone Ceremony .- April 6, 2017. Opening.- May 9, 2019

Miralles Tagliabue. EMBT

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT is an international acknowledged architecture studio formed by Enric Miralles (1955-2000) and Benedetta Tagliabue in 1994.

The studio has experience in public spaces and buildings in both Europe and China working for State and Local Governments as well as Corporate and private clients.

EMBT’s mature approach to architecture, interior design, facility planning includes experience with educational, commercial, industrial and residential buildings, restoration of buildings as well as special purpose landscape architecture.

Each project evolves from the specific client requirements and innovation emerges through the design process. This approach is combined with strong technical and management skills to provide cost effective and personal service.

The studio maintains a highly personal level of service throughout the design process and offer strong technical and structural solutions through close collaboration with engineering offices.

The majority of the EMBT projects are commissioned by public clients with special emphasis on urban space and the coherence between the built environment and the public space. Each project brings with it a new client and special cost constraints. To achieve the desired solution, EMBT believe that the design process must be a collaborative effort between the client and the designer.

EMBT ensures that clients take an active role in defining their needs, bringing client and solution together, and is backed by a support team with a capability of responding rapidly to projects demands.

The studio put great emphasis on each individual projects context, history and culture and aims to enhance these aspects through their unique design process.

Benedetta Tagliabue

Benedetta Tagliabue was born in Milan and graduated from the University of Venice in 1989. In 1991 she joined Enric Miralles’ studio where she eventually became a partner. Her work with Miralles, whom she married, includes a number of high profile buildings and projects in Barcelona: Parque Diagonal Mar (1997-2002), Head Office Gas Natural (1999-2006) and the Market and quarter Santa Caterina (1996-2005), as well as projects across Europe, including the School of Music in Hamburg (1997-2000) and the City Hall in Utrecht (1996-2000).

In 1998, the partnership won the competition to design the new Scottish Parliament building and despite Miralles’ premature death in 2000, Tagliabue took leadership of the team as joint Project Director and the Parliament was successfully completed in 2004, winning several awards.

She won the competition for the new design of Hafencity Harbor in Hamburg , Germany, for a subway train station in Naples and for the Spanish Pavilion for Expo Shanghai 2010 among others.

Today under the direction of Benedetta Tagliabue the Miralles-Tagliabue-EMBT studio works with architectural projects, open spaces, urbanism, rehabilitation and exhibitions, trying to conserve the spirit of the Spanish and Italian artisan architectural studio tradition which espouses collaboration rather than specialization.

Their architectural philosophy is dedicating special attention to context.

Benedetta has written for several architectural magazines and has taught at, amongst other places, the University of architecture ETSAB in Barcelona. She has lectured in many international architectural Forums as, for example, the RIBA, the Architectural Association and Bartlett School in, London, the Berlage Institut in Amsterdam, and in USA, China and South America.

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