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Ravelo Clinic, Tenerife
Ravelo Medical Clinic, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain – design by gpy arquitectos
1 Sep 2008
Ravelo Medical Clinic
2007
Design: gpy arquitectos
Islas Canarias Arquitectura, España
Exterior View:
photograph : Efraín Pintos
This small medical clinic is located in the centre of the town of Ravelo, a small population in a distinctively rural environment that occupies a prominent outstanding hillside position in the northeast of the island of Tenerife.
Waiting Area:
photograph : Efraín Pintos
It is integrated into the surrounding neighbourhood, the main entrance has been adapted to the slope of the street, which rises steeply along the eastern border of the plot. This virtually extends the public space right into the building, which in turn projects it back out through the large panoramic window adjoining the waiting rooms.
Exterior View
photograph: Constanze Sixt
The building has been designed on two levels: the main floor, with street-level pedestrian access, is occupied by the medical surgeries, while the lower floor houses the administrative and staff areas.
Waiting Area ; Exterior View
photograph: Efraín Pintos
The building is characterised by a dialogue between the external, concrete ‘frame’, open along the north-south axis, which lends the building its urban feel, and a continuous internal wooden skin which transforms the ‘framed’ empty space into a series of rooms, separating the areas for specific, private use from the public ones such as the reception area, waiting room, corridors and stairway.
A system of folding shutters along the southern facade regulates the entry of sunlight – a feature which lends the building its bioclimatic character while at the same time offering optimal lighting conditions for the workspaces.
To the north, the concrete ‘frame’ embraces the distant countryside, incorporating it into the everyday life of the clinic through the panoramic window which, in turn, constitutes an easily recognised landmark.
Reception
photograph : Efraín Pintos
Ravelo Medical Clinic Tenerife – Building Information
Project: Ravelo Medical Clinic
Client: Gobierno de Canarias: Consejería de Sanidad y Consumo
(Canary Islands Government: Health and Consume Council)
Architects: gpy arquitectos:
Juan Antonio González Pérez, Urbano Yanes Tuña
Entrance views
photos : Efraín Pintos
Collaborators: Constanze Sixt, José Juan Águilar Ramos (Construction Supervision)
Project Size: 706 m2
Completion: 2007
gpy arquitectos studio based in Santa Cruz de Tenerife
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