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Santa Casa da Misericórdia?s Elderly Care Centre in Ponte de Sor
Housing Development in Ponte de Sor, Portugal – design by Nuno Piedade Alexandre
29 Jan 2019
Santa Casa da Misericórdia?s Elderly Care Centre
Architect: Nuno Piedade Alexandre
Location: Ponte de Lima, Portugal
Santa Casa da Misericórdia?s Elderly Care Centre
With it?s beginning in 2015, this building has only been completed in 2018. It?s about a health care residence for elderly people, with 10 double rooms and 4 individual rooms, all of them equipped with their own private facilities.

The building main aim was that of nurturing the necessity of extra bedrooms on the main existing building having therefore functionally some connections and circulations been established between the two.
The proposed volume grows from the usage of the available area of the plot, and from the necessity of the connection to the existing building in order to set up the minimum space needed for the functional areas actually work.

The concept bases itself on this principal and in the search for a very particular experience mainly focused on its users. The volume dematerializes itself through the projection of the rooms outwards, distorting main facade in the search for a special sculptural moment that can speak for itself and be kind of singular, also in the way that every patient should be.

The attention to the patients and its users...