Competition New University Hospital of Cuenca

Cuenca

Project date: November 2008
Builded surface: 86.931 m2

New hospital of Cuenca, The hospital chooses to be located on the slope, on its lowest part, substantially parallel to the road that runs along its Northern boundary and accept the topography as a configuration of a basement that is deformed following the contour lines in which the generic hospital programs are arranged.

On this podium, that occupies two extensive floors, four specialized volumes of exact dimensions, orientation, and configuration emerge. Two of them host hospitalizations: General and mother and child; the third contains the Service of Psychiatry and the fourth contains Administrative and Training facilites.

In turn, these prisms are linked by a longitudinal structure containing the special hospitalisations (ICUs) and laboratories on its main floor, operating as technical plant and premises of staff on the lower floor, which gives this structure a logistical nexus character of the entire health care programme.