imq zorrotzaurre hospital
DESCRIPTION
Zorrotzaurre’s skyline can already boast its first architectural landmark: the IMQ private health building is home to the largest private health clinic in Euskadi. Occupying an area of 9,000 sq. m., the new centre has rooms for 210 hospital beds, an Intensive Care Unit with 12 boxes and 10 intelligent operating theatres, and a car park for 340 vehicles.TRANSCRIPT
ZORROTZAURREHOSPITAL IMQ
ZORROTZAURRE
NAME: HOSPITAL IN BILBAO – IMQ
SITUATION: Zorrotzaurre, Bilbao
AREA: Private
CONSTRUCTION: 2009 – 2012
ARCHITECTS: Alfonso Casares, Carlos Ferrater
TEAM: AIDHOS. Antonio Ocaña,OAB. Núria AyalaKatsura. Luis Domínguez
A building of a unitary, global kind that constructs a landscape, given that it has interiorized Bilbao’s genetic code, determined by the modernity of a highly contemporary geometry and the industrial tradition of the city.
The project defines an envelope that binds together the different parts of this complex hospital program in the podium. Said program is defined by the abstract treatment of the outer skin, punctuated by structural ribs extending vertically up the entire height of the building. The flexible modulation allows for great versatility when it comes to subdividing the interior space.
The polygonal facade converts the hospitalization block into the icon of the building, responding to the location by becoming the gateway of the future remodeling of Zorrozaurre and configuring a new urban frontage on the estuary, in keeping with the Guggenheim and the Euskalduna Palace.
