Corporate presentation of CASA Sólo Arquitectos

CASA SOLO Arquitectos SLP, was created by the architects
Francesc 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 path
set up by CASA during the last 25 years, mainly in the field
of health care building planning and design, both for private
and public sector. The experience on these very complex
building types, such as all kinds of hospitals and health
centers, allows us to afford many other programs such as
research, laboratories, high education, hotels, shopping
centers, industrial, and so on.
Each project is approached both, with some innovation and
research inputs to go further in problem solving, and with
a very high degree of individualization and attention to the
client. This is particularly important for the project success,
from the early stages of feasibility studies, functional
requirements, to the full scope of services.
Our projects have always been energy efficient. Sustainability
is a new term, but was already born with Architecture, when
it has always given correct answers to the History and the
Environment (topography, climatic conditions, cultural roots
and pre-existing conditions). Further, CASA SOLO masters
solar energy applications and the intelligent use and
management of water resources.
CASA SOLO, is ready to provide services in the global
context of present networking situation. Our previous and
current experience makes us also very strong in the field
of retrofit, reuse, and renewal of existing facilities. A close
working cooperation is established with local architects and
technicians, besides the long-term existing alliances with
engineering and structural consultants.
Our flexible organization enables us to undertake
commissions of all kinds, including from mid-term master
plans (7-10 years ahead) to integrated management of
project design and construction. The scope of services can
be as broad as demanded by the client needs, resulting
in a complete product that extends from initial studies,
programming, and sketch design, to bringing in operation
either a new building, or a retrofit phase after the previous
analyses 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.
Presentation

Typology: Hospital new construction
Phase: Built
Area: 29.800 sqm
Developer: Andorra Government
Location: 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

Phase: Built
Area: 7.600 sqm
Developer: Servei Català de la Salut
Location: Tremp, Lleida. Spain
Architect: 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

Phase: Built
Area: 16.200 sqm
Developer: Institut Català de la Salut
Location: Vilafranca del Penedès, Barcelona. Spain
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 extension
Phase: Built
Area: 4.439 sqm
Developer: Institut Català de la Salut
Location: 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
extension
Phase: Built
Area: 1.500 m2
Developer: ICO Institut Català d’Oncologia
Location: Girona. Spain
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.

Phase: Built
Area: 7.200 sqm
Developer: SERGAS (Servizo Galego de Saúde)
Location: Burela, Lugo. Spain
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

Phase: Built
Area: 10.700 sqm
Location: O Barco, Ourense. Spain
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.
Phase: Built
Area: 11.900 sqm
Developer: Fundación Hospital de Jove
Location: Gijón. Spain
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.
Phase: Built
Area: 38.681 sqm
Developer: Fundació Hospital de l’Esperit Sant
Location: Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Barcelona. Spain
Architects: Francesc Pernas and Joaquim Solé
Esperit Sant Hospital

Phase: Built
Area: 114.369 sqm
Developer: GISCARMSA, SAU
Location: Cartagena, Murcia. Spain
Architects: 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.
Phase: Built
Area: 61.352 sqm
Developer: GISCARMSA, SAU
Location: San Javier, Murcia. Spain
Gato
Los Arcos del Mar Menor
University Hospital

Phase: Built
Area: 22.863 sqm
Location: A Coruña. Spain
Architects: 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 refurbishment
Phase: Built
Area: Masterplan 87.980 sqm Project 5.072 sqm
Developer: Mútua de Terrassa Foundation
Location: Terrassa, Barcelona. Spain
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.

Phase: Phase 1 built
Area: Schematic design 9.365 sqm Phase1 1.735 sqm
Developer: Sant Joan de Déu de Martorell Foundation
Location: Martorell, Barcelona. Spain
Architects: 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 Masterplan
Phase: redacted
Area: 237.523 sqm
Developer: Servicio Madrileño de Salud - Hospital
Universitario Ramón y Cajal
Location: Madrid. Spain
Gato
Collaborator: 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

Phase: ongoing (viability and implantation study 2009)
Area: 238.916 sqm
Developer: Institut Català de la Salut - Hospital Universitari
Vall d’Hebrón
Location: Barcelona. Spain
Architects: Fancesc Pernas, Roger Pernas and Bernat
Gato
Collaborators: 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 location
c) 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.

Phase: redacted
Area: 115.092 sqm
Developer: Institut Català de la Salut - Hospital Universitari
Germans Trias i Pujol
Location: Badalona, Barcelona. Spain
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

Phase: Previous study
Area: 83.000 sqm
Developer: Fundació Hospital de Sant Pau
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

Phase: Execution Project redacted
Area: 65.345 sqm
Developer: Asistencia Sanitaria Valle del Ebro, SL
Location: Zaragoza. Spain
Architects: 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

Phase: Execution project redacted (1st competition prize)
Area: 28.000 sqm
Developer: Société Clinique de Sousse (Groupe MHIRI)
Location: Hammam-Sousse. Tunisia
Architects: 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

Phase: Competition
Area: 69.960 sqm
Developer: Vèrtix, SA
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 tothenearrailway station.Theaccessisorganized
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.
Phase: Competition
Area: 42.770 sqm
Location: Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona. Spain
Gato
Ernest Lluch Hospital

Phase: Competition
Area: 22.080 sqm
Developer: Mútua de Terrassa Foundation
Location: Rubí, Barcelona. Spain
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

Phase: Competition
Area: 50.896 sqm
Location: Vilanova i la Geltrú, Barcelona. Spain
Gato
Collaborators: 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

Phase: Competition
Area: 140.000 sqm
Developer: Tongzhou Health Authority
Location: Tong Hu Nan Lu, Tongzhou (China)
Gato
Collaborators: BIAD (Beijing Institute of Architecture and
Design)
Thisnew800bedhospitalissituatedintheurbansurroundings
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 construction
Phase: Competition
Area: 71.938 sqm
Developer: Spanish Ministery of Economy
Location: Barri de Sanchinarro, Madrid. Spain
Gato
Collaborators: 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

Phase: Competition
Area: 9.365 sqm
Developer: Institution de Lavigny
Location: Lavigny. Switzerland
Gato
Collaborators: 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 extension
Phase: Competition
Area: 7.254 sqm
Developer: Fondation de la Maison de Retraite de Burier à
Montreux
Location: Montreux. Switzerland
Gato

Typology: Primary Health Centre refurbishment and
extension
Phase: Built
Area: 1.050 m2
Developer: GISA, Gestió d´Infraestructures SA
Location: Granollers, Barcelona. Spain
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: Built
Area: 1.980 sqm
Developer: Departament d’Ensenyament de la Generalitat
de Catalunya
Location: Pont de Vilomara, Barcelona. Spain
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: Built
Area: 2.100 sqm
Location: Sabadell, Barcelona. Spain
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 construction
Phase: Built
Area: 5.800 sqm
Location: Valls, Tarragona. Spain
Narcís Ollé
Secondary School

Typology: Secondary School refurbishment and extension
Phase: Preliminary study
Area: 4.250 sqm
Location: Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona. Spain
Architect: 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 School
Phase: Competition
Area: 3.553 sqm
Location: Terrassa, Barcelona. Spain
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 School
Phase: Competition
Area: 3.573 sqm
Location: Cardedeu, Barcelona. Spain
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 extension
Phase: Built
Area: 5.000 sqm
Developer: El País
Collaborator: 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: Built
Area: 25.975 sqm
Developer: Grupo Godó
Collaborator: 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 construction
Phase: Executive project
Area: 54.155 sqm
Developer: Metrovacesa S.A.
Location: Barcelona, España
Architect: Francesc Pernas, Roger Pernas and Bernat Gato
Eix Llacuna 22@
Business Park

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