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CASA SOLO Arquitectos SLP, was created by the architectsFrancesc Pernas, Bernat Gato & Roger Pernas in 2008.It is part of the holding CASA Consultors i Arquitectes SL,established as far as 1987. CASA SOLO follows up the pathset up by CASA during the last 25 years, mainly in the fieldof health care building planning and design, both for privateand public sector. The experience on these very complexbuilding types, such as all kinds of hospitals and healthcenters, allows us to afford many other programs such asresearch, laboratories, high education, hotels, shoppingcenters, industrial, and so on.

Each project is approached both, with some innovation andresearch inputs to go further in problem solving, and witha very high degree of individualization and attention to theclient. This is particularly important for the project success,from the early stages of feasibility studies, functionalrequirements, to the full scope of services.

Our projects have always been energy efficient. Sustainabilityis a new term, but was already born with Architecture, whenit has always given correct answers to the History and theEnvironment (topography, climatic conditions, cultural rootsand pre-existing conditions). Further, CASA SOLO masterssolar energy applications and the intelligent use andmanagement of water resources.

CASA SOLO, is ready to provide services in the globalcontext of present networking situation. Our previous andcurrent experience makes us also very strong in the fieldof retrofit, reuse, and renewal of existing facilities. A closeworking cooperation is established with local architects andtechnicians, besides the long-term existing alliances withengineering and structural consultants.

Our flexible organization enables us to undertakecommissions of all kinds, including from mid-term masterplans (7-10 years ahead) to integrated management ofproject design and construction. The scope of services canbe as broad as demanded by the client needs, resultingin a complete product that extends from initial studies,programming, and sketch design, to bringing in operationeither a new building, or a retrofit phase after the previousanalyses of an existing facility.

New projects might be designed with BIM (Building Information Modelling) technology. This system allows to generate and manage building data along its whole life cycle. It is a great leap forward in architectural computer aids in order to improve building maintenance.

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Typology: Hospital new constructionPhase: BuiltArea: 29.800 sqmDeveloper: Andorra GovernmentLocation: Escaldes-Engordany. Principat d’Andorra Architects: Francesc Pernas, Joaquim Solé and Francesc Montaner

The Nostra Senyora de Meritxell Hospital has its origins in the winning project for an international competition set up by the Andorra Government.The site, only 5,000 m2, was a bite out of a mountainside with a steep slope.The hospital has twelve levels, staggered in three clearly differentiated parts to break up the very large volume of the building and create two public plazas connected by the streets that bound the site.The three lower levels are for parking, with capacity for 267 cars. General services, diagnostic and treatment units are in the central section. The upper floors form an S-shaped linear block, following the alignment of the street, with 192 single bed rooms with prefabricated bathrooms.The result is exceptionally well integrated, respecting the topography and configuration of the mountainous Andorran landscape.

Nostra Senyora de Meritxell Hospital

Typology: Hospital new constructionPhase: BuiltArea: 7.600 sqmDeveloper: Servei Català de la SalutLocation: Tremp, Lleida. SpainArchitect: Francesc Pernas

The Hospital Comarcal del Pallars, with 64 beds, took over the health-care functions of the existing hospital, used for the care of chronic and geriatric patients. The new building stands on a plot formerly occupied by the vegetable gardens of the old hospital. Both buildings are connected. A certain separation is preserved between the urbanized and landscaped areas, with the building as the buffer between them, as the older hospital did. The dialogue between two materials, fair-faced yellow brick and local stone, reinforces the identity of each element and integrates it into its mountainous environment.The second key idea was to give the inpatient units attractive views, good orientation and direct contact with the exterior.The third consideration was the commitment to adapt to the steep slope of the street, taking advantage of this to provide access to different levels by creating small plazas and thus contributing to the hierarchical ordering of the hospital’s internal circulation.

Pallars Hospital

Typology: Hospital new constructionPhase: Built Area: 16.200 sqmDeveloper: Institut Català de la SalutLocation: Vilafranca del Penedès, Barcelona. SpainArchitect: Francesc Pernas

The Comarcal de l’Alt Penedès Hospital has a maximum capacity of 168 beds.The plot’s dimension and the low density permitted by planning regulations naturally generated a horizontal solution allowing for possible future growth of the building.The building is organized along the vertebral general circulation axis, with the gallery containing the services between the ceiling and the roof.The patients’ rooms are set along one side, with a series of patios separating the different system circulations for access and environmental quality. The roof, which changes its angle of inclination over the corridor, provides excellent overhead lighting.On the other side of the vertebral axis, there are the medical departments, with a comb-shaped layout distributing the facilities, organizing the circulation and the future growth. The structure, based on 14.4m beams, ensures that alterations and technological innovations can be made quickly and easily.

Alt Penedès Hospital

Typology: Hospital refurbishment and extensionPhase: BuiltArea: 4.439 sqmDeveloper: Institut Català de la SalutLocation: Vilafranca del Penedès, Barcelona. Spain Architects: Francesc Pernas, Roger Pernas and Bernat Gato

The hospital, completed in 1994, has 168 beds. From 2005 onwards some refurbishment projects have been executed. The Outpatient department was extended and a Day Hospital was also added. The building grows mainly in the southern façade. This first extension was followed by a new Central Laboratory serving also the region, in northwest façade, and a new extension and retrofit of Emergency Department, Day Surgery and Delivery Unit. The building model, designed also by Casa in the 80’s, has permitted easily to carry on these works, without any inconvenience for the current activities of the hospital.

Alt Penedès Hospital

Outpatients service Obstetrics service Laboratory

Typology: Radiotherapy Service refurbishment and extensionPhase: BuiltArea: 1.500 m2

Developer: ICO Institut Català d’OncologiaLocation: Girona. SpainArchitects: Francesc Pernas, Roger Pernas and Bernat Gato

Josep Trueta Hospital Radiotherapy Service

The old Santa Caterina Hospital in Girona was closed and all services moved to a new hospital in Salt. It was necessary to restructure of the Oncology services of the region. It coincided also with the creation of the Institut Català d’Oncologia (ICO) which includes all utilities of Oncology of Catalunya. It was decided to build a new pavilion adjacent to Girona’s Josep Trueta Hospital, attached to the East facade.The new building dignifies an area formerly destined to general hospital services, and provides also a new access for users. Two linear accelerators in the first phase were built using Ledite, a light material from the US, and a third machine was incorporated in 2009 in a project also by CASA SOLO.The top access floor is destinated to day hospital, and the nuclear medicine services, including two gamma-cameras. In the second phase an administrative area was added.

Typology: Hospital refurbishment and extensionPhase: BuiltArea: 7.200 sqmDeveloper: SERGAS (Servizo Galego de Saúde)Location: Burela, Lugo. SpainArchitect: Francesc Pernas

The Hospital da Costa in Burela serves the Health Area of Cervo, with a total population of 75,000. The project and the subsequent extension work were developed in several phases. The first phase provided the hospital with new facilities: Accident and Emergency and Outpatients, ITU/Recovery, Paediatrics and Maintenance. A number of interior reforms were also carried out, relocating services in the empty spaces left. The second phase was executed only in five months, during the surgery low activity period, and six new OR’s and spaces for ambulatory surgery were added and refurbished. During the third phase a new Haemodialysis and the retrofit of an existing nursing unit were designed and constructed.

Da Costa Hospital

Typology: Hospital refurbishment and extensionPhase: BuiltArea: 10.700 sqmDeveloper: SERGAS (Servizo Galego de Saúde)Location: O Barco, Ourense. SpainArchitect: Francesc Pernas

The hospital was the result of the uncoordinated growth of a health facility run by the INP, established in 1976. The Master Plan, drawn up by CASA, restructured and extended the existing services.The first phase focused on giving the centre a new, unified external image, thanks to the new Inpatients block. The total number of beds is 100. The second and third phases renovated and extended different areas that were left free when various departments were transferred to their new locations. The total remodelling of the hospital and its central services, including a new surgical block of three operating theatres and a delivery suite, was completed without interrupting health-care activity.

Valdeorras Hospital

This private hospital, with 270 beds overlooking El Musel harbour, was engaged in ongoing modernization of its facilities in order to offer a better service to its clients. CASA undertook the phase planning of the management’s objectives.The first project defined the reform and extension of the existing surgery block and the adjacent sterilization and post-surgery recovery areas. The scheme remodelled all of the existing area, extending it with the addition of a linear volume on the south façade. In the second phase, the aim of the intervention was to extend and remodel part of the building in order to improve its functional characteristics and catering facilities. The inpatient units were extended by adding three new floors to the North block, and a six-storey volume to the East wing. The roof of the top floor of this wing has also been altered to accommodate a new inpatient unit. The last works included a new Radiotherapy service, with two 23 MeV accelerators, and a new master plan to increase ambulatory activities in 20,000 sq.m.

Typology: Hospital refurbishment and extensionPhase: BuiltArea: 11.900 sqmDeveloper: Fundación Hospital de JoveLocation: Gijón. SpainArchitect: Francesc Pernas

Jove Hospital

This project of a new hospital is characterized by its rational use of the available plot without disturbing the existing hospital activities during construction, functional organization, structuring of circulation and separation of outpatient and inpatient activities.The hospital has a capacity of 200 beds and 390 parking spaces. In order to reduce the impact of its height and scale, the building is articulated into three clearly differentiated parts: a three-storey plinth and two separate bodies, accommodating the three basic functions: central and general services, inpatient care, and outpatient activity. The triangular area created between the two blocks is a covered public space which gives access to the Hospital. The proposal takes advantage of the existing vehicle-access concourse to accommodate the entrance plaza serving the new building, which is connected to the existing hospital wards (future social health care) by an underground tunnel.

Typology: Hospital new constructionPhase: BuiltArea: 38.681 sqmDeveloper: Fundació Hospital de l’Esperit SantLocation: Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Barcelona. Spain Architects: Francesc Pernas and Joaquim Solé

Esperit Sant Hospital

Typology: Hospital new constructionPhase: Built Area: 114.369 sqmDeveloper: GISCARMSA, SAULocation: Cartagena, Murcia. SpainArchitects: Fancesc Pernas, Roger Pernas and Bernat Gato

This is a new University Hospital with a maximum capacity of 630 beds. Besides medical services, it also includes sports facilities, shops and leisure amenities, thus reinforcing the idea of health, sports, and community services.The general access concourse is an unheated umbraculum providing a transition between exterior and interior that extends to the roof where the shops, leisure and sports facilities are located. Good exposure to natural light is a factor of great importance in this type of building, and the design thus incorporates a system generously sized patios.Nursing units southern orientated and overlooking the harbour, are positioned over the two-level roof-garden on top of the diagnostic and outpatient units. The extended use of solar panels, water resources recuperation, and the use of efficient engineering systems and sustainable materials and screens, allowed the building performance in the LEED Gold qualification.

Santa Lucía University Hospital

The total bed capacity of the hospital is 329. There are two levels of access to the building, with a floor between them. The hospital is laid out on four floors (ground+3). Second and third floors are occupied by the inpatient units combined with outpatient areas, consulting rooms and department offices. This layout enables of all each department’s patient care and work areas to be grouped together, optimizing staff effectiveness and minimizing circulation. The ‘open’ scheme on the NW side allows the addition of a series of new modules: inpatient, logistics, central services, outpatient consultations or services.Good exposure to natural light is a factor of great importance in this type of building, and the design thus incorporates a system generously sized patios, fully incorporated into the structural grid, to provide the different departments with fresh air and sunlight. The main façade has a photovoltaic cells’ double-skin and an information panel running along the full length of the building.

Typology: Hospital new constructionPhase: BuiltArea: 61.352 sqmDeveloper: GISCARMSA, SAULocation: San Javier, Murcia. SpainArchitects: Francesc Pernas, Roger Pernas and Bernat Gato

Los Arcos del Mar Menor University Hospital

Typology: Hospital refurbishment and extensionPhase: BuiltArea: 22.863 sqmDeveloper: SERGAS (Servizo Galego de Saúde)Location: A Coruña. SpainArchitects: Francesc Pernas, Cristina Fernández, Roger Pernas and Bernat Gato

The project is Phase 2 of the Master Plan of this 935 bed university hospital, referral centre for the region. It includes the reform and extension of the first five floors of the central building, built in the 1970s. These floors are still partly occupied, making it necessary to carry out the work in stages, so as to interfere as little as possible with ongoing hospital activities. The existing building is being extended in the North façade.It was decided to maintain the building’s original image, with a prevalence of wall over openings, adapting the skin to the latest technologies (ventilated façade and better seal and thermal insulation for windows).The scheme sets out also to restore the building’s original patios, eliminating extraneous elements added in the course of its busy life. The new surgical block has 18 OR’s with Krion panelling.

A Coruña University Hospital

Typology: Hospital masterplan and refurbishmentPhase: BuiltArea: Masterplan 87.980 sqm Project 5.072 sqm

Developer: Mútua de Terrassa FoundationLocation: Terrassa, Barcelona. SpainArchitects: Francesc Pernas, Roger Pernas and Bernat Gato

Mútua de Terrassa University Hospital

This Master Plan defines the strategic stages of future growth and development of the Mútua de Terrassa Hospital complex, based on the future needs defined by the hospital and the health care model that they represent. The necessary tools were provided to facilitate decision making in order to initiate this process of transformation, vital to keep the Hospital at the top of the current and future health scenery.

Typology: Hospital refurbishment and extensionPhase: Phase 1 built Area: Schematic design 9.365 sqm Phase1 1.735 sqmDeveloper: Sant Joan de Déu de Martorell FoundationLocation: Martorell, Barcelona. SpainArchitects: Roger Pernas and Bernat Gato

The project is organized into three stages of implementation in order to expand and refurbish the current Emergency department, which was obsolete. The scope of work mainly affects two floors, and the main part of the extension area is built in phase one to provide extra space for movements.This extension involves also actions in the Surgical-Obstetric zone, and moving the Pharmacy and Recovery unit to the basement, on free spaces left by the outsourcing of services such as Warehouse, Laundry and Sterilization. Vertical communications are also improved by adding a new lift. To meet the new fire regulations for nursing units, it’s necessary to build two new staircases added on all floors of the hospital.

Sant Joan de Déu Hospital

Typology: Hospital MasterplanPhase: redactedArea: 237.523 sqmDeveloper: Servicio Madrileño de Salud - Hospital Universitario Ramón y CajalLocation: Madrid. SpainArchitects: Francesc Pernas, Roger Pernas and Bernat GatoCollaborator: Antares Consulting

The master plan analyzes the physical and economic feasibility of the new model demanded by the Comunidad de Madrid Health Department, for renovation of this 1000-bed university hospital in Madrid. CASA SOLO output documents and plans provided the necessary tools to begin the process and decision making that affects the future development of the hospital in the next 15-20 years. The aim was to build a modern and pioneering hospital demanding comfort of patients, families and staff. The configuration of the spaces must recuperate functionality, and the circulation must be optimized in order to reach maximum values in both the quality and effectiveness of healthcare activities.

Ramón y Cajal University Hospital

Typology: Hospital MasterplanPhase: ongoing (viability and implantation study 2009)Area: 238.916 sqmDeveloper: Institut Català de la Salut - Hospital Universitari Vall d’HebrónLocation: Barcelona. SpainArchitects: Fancesc Pernas, Roger Pernas and Bernat GatoCollaborators: Antares Consulting (viability and implantation study 2009)

Vall d’Hebrón University Hospital

The object of the work was to analyze the physical and economic feasibility of a model to implement the new functional plan designed by the Generalitat’s Ministry of Health. The model used in the different scenarios proposed by the Committee on Institutional Affairs, should help to take a decision regarding the future development of HUVH, according to three alternatives:a) To move the hospitals to another location in Barcelona, proposed by the Town Hall b) To remain in the current locationc) A mix solution that would break up the model, placing it in two different locations: the current and the new one chosen in the first alternative.

Typology: Hospital MasterplanPhase: redactedArea: 115.092 sqmDeveloper: Institut Català de la Salut - Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i PujolLocation: Badalona, Barcelona. SpainArchitects: Francesc Pernas, Roger Pernas and Bernat Gato

The master plan defines the future growth and development of this 650-bed University Hospital complex. Future needs identified by hospital officials lead to a new healthcare model, providing the necessary tools to facilitate decision-making to carry on the transformation process. The main features of the new proposed model are the following:- Reorganization of services and circulation’s improvement in the main building. - Updating facilities and fire prevention systems. - Improvement of mobility and accessibility in the hospital. - Increase of parking capacity.- Facilities assessment and development of teaching and research ongoing projects. - Respond to the demand of a new primary care Health centre on the plot.

Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital

Typology: Hospital new constructionPhase: Previous studyArea: 83.000 sqmDeveloper: Fundació Hospital de Sant Pau Location: Barcelona. SpainArchitect: Francesc Pernas

The new Santa Creu i Sant Pau Hospital, with 750 beds, is situated in the corner of the extensive plot occupied by the existing pavilion-type hospital, constructed in 1902-1912 and declared a national monument in 1978. Technological advances and new hospital requirements lead to obsolescence and functional problems in the old pavilions due to the splitting up of all departments. Works carried include the initial study of alternatives, a review of the functional programme, and the sketch design. The proposed building is a semi-sunken, low-rise volume, triangular in plan, with courtyards that recall the sequence of the historic pavilions. The building form and position reinforce the compositional axis of the plot and permit the creation of generous spaces for access and the emergency department.

Santa Creu i Sant Pau Hospital

Typology: Hospital new constructionPhase: Execution Project redactedArea: 65.345 sqmDeveloper: Asistencia Sanitaria Valle del Ebro, SLLocation: Zaragoza. SpainArchitects: Francesc Pernas, Bernat Gato, Luís Fernando Ruiz de Azúa and Marcos de Pedro

The complex includes a 150-bedhospital and a 100-bed nursery home. It has five floors, basement, ground and first forming podium, and two upper nursing floors. This arrangement minimizes the circulations and facilitates the grouping of all health care areas, and staff working areas. Workforce optimization is achieved.In the lower floors there is a clear separation into three stripes of different uses: logistics, diagnosis / treatment, and outpatients. Geometry and courtyard distribution give natural light to the majority of spaces and improve flexibility. Next to the main entrance there are leisure, commercial and food service areas.

Valle del Ebro Hospital

Typology: Hospital new constructionPhase: Execution project redacted (1st competition prize)Area: 28.000 sqmDeveloper: Société Clinique de Sousse (Groupe MHIRI)Location: Hammam-Sousse. TunisiaArchitects: Jos Galán, Marcel Sarrabayrouse, Francesc Pernas and Bernat Gato

The project of the 140-bed Sousse private hospital, which was won in an international competition, consists of two compact buildings, one dedicated to the clinical services and the inpatient units, and the other one for outpatient visits. These volumes are linked by a vertical volume hall. This part of the building features a magnificent showcase through which the visitors can see the four floors of the clinic. Natural lighting and ventilation through open space have been prioritized, as well as courtyards and gardens, to enhance the feeling of climate and visual comfort of the patients. In the development of the clinic project, the sustainability has been very important, achieving among the other measures, a significant reduction of energy consumption for the whole set.

Private Clinic in Sousse

Typology: Hospital new constructionPhase: CompetitionArea: 69.960 sqmDeveloper: Vèrtix, SALocation: Barcelona. SpainArchitect: Francesc Pernas

This scheme was submitted for an unusual 30-storey skyscraper on the Barcelona skyline, for a new health-care building in the grounds of the old Hospital Frenopático. The programme included a medical mall, the new Insitute and Clinic Dexeus, a hotel, and a number of consulting rooms to be rented to doctors. It was developed vertically to minimize occupation of the plot and thus avoid blocking the views and sunlight enjoyed by the neighbouring apartment blocks. The sculptor Sergi Aguilar was involved in the design process.

Dexeus University Institute

This 310-bed hospital integrates to the city structure connecting to the near railway station. The access is organized through a large square by the river, to accommodate the flow of visitors and patients. It’s a horizontal building with possibilities of controlled growth. A large bioclimatic atrium flies over the visitor’s entrance and the access to services.The envelope is designed to control solar gains and noise from a close motorway. It also includes the production of photovoltaic energy, and the reuse of rainwater and gray water.

Typology: Hospital new constructionPhase: CompetitionArea: 42.770 sqmDeveloper: Servei Català de la SalutLocation: Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona. SpainArchitects: Francesc Pernas, Roger Pernas and Bernat Gato

Ernest Lluch Hospital

Typology: Hospital new constructionPhase: CompetitionArea: 22.080 sqmDeveloper: Mútua de Terrassa FoundationLocation: Rubí, Barcelona. SpainArchitects: Francesc Pernas, Roger Pernas and Bernat Gato

The proposal is perfectly set in its surroundings and the urban planning. It completes the closest green areas of Ca n’Oriol and it takes advantage of the views towards them, without blocking the landscape.It is a new light-hospital concept, designed according to principles established by the Catalan Institute of Health. It allows phasing in the future, without disturbing the current activities. The building is based on high efficiency spaces and resources; the proposal contains the principles of sustainability and environment established by the United Nations and the Global Compact initiatives.

Vicente Ferrer Hospital

Typology: Hospital new constructionPhase: CompetitionArea: 50.896 sqmDeveloper: Servei Català de la SalutLocation: Vilanova i la Geltrú, Barcelona. SpainArchitects: Francesc Pernas, Roger Pernas and Bernat GatoCollaborators: Josep Llinàs

The proposed typology avoids repetition, therefore it is a unique design adapted to the surroundings. The building is composed by a main two-floor body, and above it there are three towers which contain the 200-bed nursing units. Each block has three floors, apart from the last one, with a heliport on the roof. The basement holds an underground car park, as well as some logistical services and plant facilities.

Garraf Hospital

Typology: Hospital new constructionPhase: CompetitionArea: 140.000 sqmDeveloper: Tongzhou Health AuthorityLocation: Tong Hu Nan Lu, Tongzhou (China)Architects: Francesc Pernas, Roger Pernas and Bernat GatoCollaborators: BIAD (Beijing Institute of Architecture and Design)

This new 800 bed hospital is situated in the urban surroundings of Beijing, to substitute an existing facility. The main master plan includes also four additional buildings, containing several supporting health facilities deserving the community. The proposal is based in a north-south axis connecting the different buildings facing always south. This axis is also a bridge overlooking the existing street across the plot, and is planned to include some supporting services compatible to the hospital activity to achieve a better integration in the future plan of the health campus and research area in Tongzhou.

Tongzhou Maternity and Children Hospital

Typology: Health research centre new constructionPhase: CompetitionArea: 71.938 sqmDeveloper: Spanish Ministery of EconomyLocation: Barri de Sanchinarro, Madrid. SpainArchitects: Francesc Pernas, Roger Pernas and Bernat GatoCollaborators: BOD Arquitectura e Ingeniería, SA

We were shortlisted among seventy teams, to submit a proposal for the most important health research center in Spain. It is also among the most recognized at European level. The proposal is a modular system of laboratory buildings integrating the future research campus. They are situated on a shared basement containing the supporting platforms to all the institutes. Adaptation to the sloping topography, splitting the plot in several smaller virtual plots, simplifies and shortens the urban and legal permissions.

Carlos III Health Institute

Typology: Hospital refurbishment and extensionPhase: CompetitionArea: 9.365 sqmDeveloper: Institution de LavignyLocation: Lavigny. SwitzerlandArchitects: Francesc Pernas, Roger Pernas and Bernat GatoCollaborators: Ganz & Muller Arch., Genève

This project is to refurbish and enlarge the Hôpital de Lavigny, an institution focused on the treatment and care of patients suffering of neurological/brain diseases and reduced mobility. The functional program demands to retrofit a great deal of internal spaces, including the main hall, as well as the addition of nursing up to 65 beds, neurological rehabilitation spaces, and research laboratories. The main aims of the proposal submitted are the integrations of the new volumes in a green environment overlooking the Léman Lake, and a modular system solution for the facades, allowing unifying old and new.

Lavigny Hospital

The access building is located on the footprint of the old center built in 1908, retrieving the old entrance front perpendicular to the street. The use of light materials combined with wood contrast with the slate used in the building rooms. This volume houses the lobby and a double crossing space for users and visitors that connects the ground floor with the first floor. The area is lighted naturally using inner courtyards, which soften the shadow areas. The volume of access connects the building from 1984 with the new building of rooms via two glazed corridors in different heights.

Burier Nursing Home

Typology: Nursing home refurbishment and extensionPhase: CompetitionArea: 7.254 sqmDeveloper: Fondation de la Maison de Retraite de Burier à MontreuxLocation: Montreux. SwitzerlandArchitects: Francesc Pernas, Roger Pernas and Bernat Gato

Typology: Primary Health Centre refurbishment and extensionPhase: BuiltArea: 1.050 m2

Developer: GISA, Gestió d´Infraestructures SALocation: Granollers, Barcelona. SpainArchitects: Francesc Pernas, Roger Pernas and Bernat Gato

Sant Miquel Health Centre

The health centre was designed by CASA in the year 1988. It was an L-shaped building with the two wings and creating a main access plaza between them.The extension consists in the construction of a three-storey building upon a basement destined to service areas. The new building is connected to the existing centre to cover the new functional program for a reference population of 25,000. The result is a volume integrated with the environment and a new access closer to the main street.

Typology: Elementary and Primary School new construction Phase: BuiltArea: 1.980 sqmDeveloper: Departament d’Ensenyament de la Generalitat de CatalunyaLocation: Pont de Vilomara, Barcelona. SpainArchitect: Francesc Pernas

The Pompeu Fabra public school, for 300 students, is clear and simple in it form. The construction is divided into two parts by an extensive open space containing the circulation system and multipurpose areas. The ramp that links the two floors of the building resolves access without the need for a lift and gives ambient quality to the volume.The unit housing the classrooms and laboratories of the primary school is of white concrete blocks, while the volume containing the offices, seminar rooms and services is of fair-faced red brick. The two nursery classes and special education classroom, designed to allow flexibility of uses, constitute a separate nucleus with its own playground.

Pompeu Fabra Primary School

The new school for 225 students is adjacent to the main commercial avenue of the Eix Macià, on the plot formerly occupied by the old Vapor Borràs textile factory.The building is resolved in three bodies: one for the Primary school and facilities for teaching staff, another intended for the Nursery school classes, and finally an auxiliary refectory block and gym/multi-purpose hall. Most of the school is single-storey, the exception being the linear two storey block for Primary teaching, with its classrooms looking southeast.

Typology: Elementary and Primary School new construction Phase: BuiltArea: 2.100 sqmDeveloper: GISA, Gestió d´Infraestructures SALocation: Sabadell, Barcelona. SpainArchitect: Francesc Pernas

Creu Alta Primary School

This new public school for 760 students was designed and built on a site in a residential area situated north of the town centre. A linear layout was adopted, closing off the block, with the classrooms looking north following the client’s demands. The sports zones and gym occupy the inner part of the block, adequately separated from the interior courtyards of the residential buildings according to fixed urban parameters. Materials used include bricks, concrete blocks, and precast elements in ventilated façades.

Typology: Secondary School new constructionPhase: BuiltArea: 5.800 sqmDeveloper: GISA, Gestió d´Infraestructures SALocation: Valls, Tarragona. SpainArchitect: Francesc Pernas

Narcís Ollé Secondary School

Typology: Secondary School refurbishment and extensionPhase: Preliminary study Area: 4.250 sqmDeveloper: GISA, Gestió d´Infraestructures SALocation: Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona. SpainArchitect: Francec Pernas

Gorgs Secondary School

This project was awarded through a competition with more than 80 candidates. Previous studies on the reform and expansion of the IES (built in the early 1970s as a centre of EGB with 16 units) advised to desist in the reform and recommended to build a new one on the same site.The Department of Education of the Generalitat of Catalonia adopted these criteria. From this background, a new competition was set up for to project a new centre.

Typology: Elementary and Primary SchoolPhase: CompetitionArea: 3.553 sqmDeveloper: GISA, Gestió d´Infraestructures SALocation: Terrassa, Barcelona. SpainArchitects: Francesc Pernas, Roger Pernas and Bernat Gato

Vapor Cortés Primary School

The plot surface, 2400 sqm., is far below the recommended standard. According to this condition, two main decisions were taken in the competition’s proposal: a compact volume, concentrated on the main avenue, and the use of the roofs for games and sports areas. Best solar orientation is achieved for the entire program, and independent access to elementary school areas as demanded by the Department of Education.

Typology: Elementary and Primary SchoolPhase: CompetitionArea: 3.573 sqmDeveloper: GISA, Gestió d´Infraestructures SALocation: Cardedeu, Barcelona. SpainArchitects: Francesc Pernas, Roger Pernas and Bernat Gato

Can Manent Primary School

The main aims of this competition proposal are: 1. To have the most elementary classrooms facing north with the views of the Montseny.2. To define and distinct the space for elementary school in the ground floor, with its own courtyard and access, different of the main entrance of CEIP.3. To have the best possible sunlight in the courtyards and prevent the tallest buildings shadow on them.4. To have a differential access to the kitchen from a street that is different from where the main entrance is located.5. To foresee an easy way of growth that allows the work without interfering with the normal operation of the CEIP.

The Barcelona offices and print shops producing the Catalonia and Balearic Islands edition of the newspaper El País have been located in the Zona Franca since 1982.The newspaper decided it needed to expand its facilities to accommodate new technologies in printing and dispatch. The main difficulty the project faced was the conversion of a 7 metre-high bay topped with saw-tooth skylights into a 14 metre-high bay to allow the installation of double-height rotary presses. Production was never interrupted during the works. Design and construction supervision were carried out in cooperation with BOD Arquitectura e Ingeniería, S.A.

Typology: Offices refurbishment and extensionPhase: BuiltArea: 5.000 sqmDeveloper: El PaísLocation: Barcelona. SpainArchitect: Francesc PernasCollaborator: B.O.D Arquitectura e Ingenieria Madrid

El País Newspaper

The building housing the Grupo Godó’s new printing house in Barcelona is divided into four blocks with the aim of reflecting in its form the order and organization of newspaper production: automated paper warehouse, offset rotary press, makeup and dispatch, and the offices and services building.The different spatial requirements of each of these areas are expressed as volumes with different forms and heights, with different construction and structural solutions. These differences are emphasized by highlighting either match or contrast, of materials and finishes used in different areas.The building presents its less industrial office volume to the street, with the taller buildings behind it, allowing for future growth at the rear of the plot.

Typology: Newspaper Offices and Printing house new construction Phase: BuiltArea: 25.975 sqmDeveloper: Grupo GodóLocation: Barcelona. SpainArchitect: Francesc PernasCollaborator: B.O.D Arquitectura e Ingenieria Madrid

CRE-A Printing plant

The new Business Park developed by Metrovacesa will stand in the plot formerly occupied by La Vanguardia printing plant in Poble Nou. There are three new buildings. One of them is an 18-floor tower. Two floors of underground parking are also planned with a total number of 352 car spaces. A private interior courtyard enclosure is surrounded by the offices. A small garden in the Llacuna street gets along with the historical building of the newspaper reconverted as a public community centre. Design is being carried out in cooperation with BOD Arquitectura e Ingeniería, S.A.

Typology: Offices new constructionPhase: Executive projectArea: 54.155 sqmDeveloper: Metrovacesa S.A.Location: Barcelona, EspañaArchitect: Francesc Pernas, Roger Pernas and Bernat Gato

Eix Llacuna 22@ Business Park

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