Biological Medicine Center
Architect: Vientos Aquitectura
Location: La Florida, Chile
Completed: 2013
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The challenge was to generate a space for silence and contemplation inside this noisy city. This leads to the creation of an inner courtyard with a lagoon formed by rocks of the Andes range, which through two waterfalls achieve to create the silence. A curved lattice made of wood sticks build a more in-time condition facing the street, and conforming with these two elements the inner courtyard.
The waiting room, opened to this courtyard gives to the time of waiting, a condition of value and contemplation. This time, which is normally long, is a gift in this contemporary life. The doctors and the medical team are not only present in the constant procession of patients, but can also witness the temporal quality of the nature surrounding them.
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