State
Built
Situation:
Av. del Cid 1. San Fernando. Cadiz
Customer:
Andalusian Health Service. Junta de Andalucía
Contractor:
San Jose Construction Company, S.A.
Constructed area:
2,560 m
2
Budget:
3,915,000€
Project - Work
2004-2010
Contest
Architect
Architects
Architecture
Ignacio Laguillo, Harald Schönegger, Luis Ybarra | Eddea
Co-author Project
Project Co-authors
Associate Architect
Associate Architects
Collaborating Architect:
Local Architects
Paco Marqués | Eddea
Technical Architecture:
Roberto Alés together with Alejandro de la Torre, José Manuel Ruiz, Rosalino Daza | Eddea
Equipment:
Margarita Diaz, María del Pilar Casado, Felipe Clemente.
Collaborator
Collaborators
Structure:
Facilities:
Landscaping:
Furniture
Model
Photograph:
José Heviá
José Heviá
Javier Orive
Javier Orive
The former outpatient clinic of the Laulhé Brothers in San Fernando (Cádiz), now the Dr. Cayetano Roldán Moreno Health Center, is one of the best examples of modern movement architecture in Andalusia, included in the DoCoMoMo Register. Along with other examples in Avilés and Santander or the Hospital de Salamanca, its author, the Madrid architect Fernando Cavestany y Pardo Valcárcel, would mark a new horizon of Spanish healthcare architecture that the Instituto Nacional de Previsión built between the 1940s and 1970s in Spain.
Volumetrically, the building is presented as a skilful arrangement of two orthogonal bodies three stories high, topped on the larger side by the recessed body. The composition, inspired by the classical tradition, introduces the use of a first floor plinth clad with oyster stone, two superimposed homogeneous bodies arranged with a structural grid plastered in white and a cantilevered upper side finish. This composition emphasizes the roundness of the image with the grid of large openings that project to the exterior both the logic of its internal distribution and an adequate response to the incidence of light and the reflection of its public image. Equally singular is the use of ceramics on the parapets of the grid and the incorporation of sculptural groups on the facade that break with the sobriety of the ambulatory and link with the modern decorative tradition of the time.
As a summary of the most outstanding interventions carried out in the intervention, they consisted of the rehabilitation of its entire supporting structure; water filtrations due to its proximity to sea level; adapting the organizational structure to the new functional program of social and health care; the incorporation of the ground level as an assistance floor and the improvement in the treatment of the accesses and exterior spaces.























