Hospital infrastructures are characterized by leaving a strong impact on the environment. In a privileged position in front of the landscape, the architecture proposed to identify the future relationship of the patient with the environment as the first therapeutic measure to receive. The response is fundamentally the balanced result of two decisions. An implantation through an appropriate scale and materiality and a recognition of unity, with no desire for notoriety in the distance.

With a three-story layout, access is through the middle floor, which is the most public. On this level the accesses are segregated and a cadence of spaces, squares, courtyards, are optimally oriented according to their needs. The upper floor limits its program to Surgery and Hospitalization and the underground level is mainly for restricted areas. The exterior spaces, altered by the necessary containments and accesses, will eventually recover an appearance in keeping with the environment, with conifers, bushes and forest plants, which will further mimic the memory of the place.

The province of Jaén, also a land of potteries, recognizes in ceramics a vernacular material, although in this case it is used with modern techniques and requirements, as a ventilated facade. The construction joints appear magnified in appearance, number and size, to compose together with the palette of hollows a composition in which order or disorder show their most ambiguous aspect. In the materiality of the interior, the neutrality of the white hygienic walls coexist with the natural stone and the transparencies of the glass and skylights.