Carlos de Riaño, Rebeca Hurtado and Almudena Peralta of the firm Riaño Arquitectos projected the new healthcare sciences university center in Madrid

The building has volumes and position that depend on the urban plan that surrounds it. It is divided into a upper part, where the machinery is kept, which in turn is hidden by a horizontal pergola, on the other hand, at street level, the areas are intended for offices, classrooms and students, while in the lower area, we find the locker rooms, warehouses and facilities.
Riaño arquitectos projects the building with a rectangular floor plan, which seeks maximum transparency and organizes the spaces into a communications and services nucleus on the east side and the classrooms on the west, making it possible to create distribution corridors in the centre of the floor plan.

The university centre is covered by pieces of grey thermo-lacquered aluminium, which are clad in grey aluminium, with horizontal slats of the same materials interrupting these to protect students and teachers against direct sunlight.

University Health Science Centre by Riaño arquitectos. Photograph by Alfonso Quiroga.
 

Description of project by Riaño arquitectos

The position and volumetry of the building is defined by the existing urban planning.

The University Centre, with a simple rectangular floor plan, organizes the programme by generating spaces of maximum diaphanousness, organizing the floor plan with communication and service cores positioned on the east façade, as opposed to the main uses and classrooms which are located on the west façade.

With a line of structural supports on the east and west façades, and an intermediate load-bearing line located between the slots of the skirting boards, the floor plan is divided into three bands, in an east-west direction, a band of service and communications cores, an intermediate band with a distribution corridor and a west band of classrooms.

The main entrance is proposed on the west façade, with a main hall, a leisure area for students, offices and teaching staff rooms. On the levels above ground level, the entire west side is for classrooms, and on levels below the access, changing rooms and toilets for students and teachers, storage and facilities.


University Health Science Centre by Riaño arquitectos. Photograph by Alfonso Quiroga.

On the roof, a floor is set back from the west façade to house machinery, with the same material as the façades and an upper horizontal pergola to conceal it.

The new volume is covered with a skin of extruded vertical pieces of grey thermo-lacquered aluminium.

The continuous grey aluminium cladding is interrupted on the west elevation by horizontal slats of the same material to protect from the afternoon sun.

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Riaño Arquitectos. Lead architects- Carlos de Riaño, Rebeca Hurtado, Almudena Peralta.
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Project team
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Jesús Rodríguez Linares.
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Collaborators
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Engineers.- JG Ingenieros, DAIE, Juan Manuel Rubio.
Technical architects.- Carlos Fernandez Casal.
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Builder
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VIAS y construcciones, S.A.
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Area
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A below grade.- 1,500sqm.
A above ground.- 3,000sqm.
A total.- 4,500sqm.
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Budget
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6,000,000 €.
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Project date.- 2020-2021.
Construction date.- 2022-2023.
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Madrid, Spain.
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Carlos de Riaño Lozano. Born in El Sardinero, Cantabria. Architect by the School of Architecture of Madrid in 1977. Since 1977 he has his own studio in Madrid. His work has garnered numerous distinctions in the field of collective housing and the renovation of heritage. Among his projects are the project for 20 dwellings on Calle Cervantes in Madrid (2006), the contest for the rehabilitation of the walled enclosure of the XII century in Madrid (2006), the Contest for the Visigothic Museum in Mérida (2007), or in 2012, the first Esteban Esteve prize 2008-2011 of the Cadiz Architects Association for the Central Market of Supplies of Cádiz.

His work has been published in various Spanish and foreign publications.
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Published on: September 7, 2023
Cite: "Diaphaneity, communication and education, University Health Science Centre by Riaño arquitectos" METALOCUS. Accessed
<http://www.metalocus.es/en/news/diaphaneity-communication-and-education-university-health-science-centre-riano-arquitectos> ISSN 1139-6415
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