National Paraplegic Hospital. phase 2

Toledo

Project date: June 2007
Builded surface: 24.904 m2

This hospital is a national reference, belonging to the Public Health System, whose administration and management depend on the Health Service of Castilla La Mancha. This Centre, since its commission, of over 30 years, has led spanish general health care of patients with spinal cord injury, and specifically in comprehensive rehabilitation.

With the new building, we move a step further to improve hospital care excellence and to adjust it to new technologies. We aim to recuperate and reassert value into outdoor spaces, adjacent to the Tajo river, that are much-needed in long stays hospital, for the coexistence and recreation of patients and families.

Program

Inpatients units (116 beds): 5,065 m2
• 2 Inpatients units (30 beds): 2,221 m2
• 1 paediatrics (28 beds): 1,384 m2
• 1 quadriplegics (28 beds): 1,460 m2

Therapies: 4,837 m2
Administrative and users services: 5,776 m2
General services: 6,464 m2
Installations: 2,762 m2

Credits

Client: SESCAM, Servicio de Salud de Castilla La Mancha

Architecture:
• Lahoz López Arquitectos, SLP: Ramón Lahoz Rodríguez and Natalia López Matesanz
• Planho Consultores, SLP

Collaborators:
Luis Marcos Díaz, Marta Rodríguez, María Amor Arroyo Sanchez, Nuria Martínez Salas, Jokine Crespo Arbisu, Ana Valenzuela, Andreina Linares Jaua, Beatriz Gonzalez Jiménez, Inmaculada Martín Portugués, Yiota Kaplani, Alicia Arnuero Martínez