Program: Founded in 1996, The California Endowment is a private statewide foundation that advocates quality health care for all Californians. Its new downtown Los Angeles multipurpose facility replaces its former, suburban Woodland Hills headquarters. The new facility features the Center for Healthy Communities, a conference and resource center intended to be an innovative venue for mobilizing community and civic leaders, health providers, advocates, and policymakers in the search for solutions to California’s critical health and health care issues. The new facility also houses The Endowment’s administrative headquarters and its Los Angeles regional program office.
The main entrance to the center is located in the corner of the streets Severe Ochoa and Miguel Delibes and is solved with a smooth ramp in the retreat space, so that it is easily identifiable from the street.
The building is conceived around a central courtyard. It serves as orientation and allow daylight to penetrate the hole interior, both the consulting rooms and the waiting areas. The use of a building of regular and square footprint with a great central courtyard allows the possibility to control all the climate conditions. This “patio” acts as a climatic envelope and provides natural and uniform sunlight to all the areas of the inside.
Image Courtesy Aitor Estevez Olaizola
Architects: Arquitecnica– Roberto Moreno Klemming + Peru Cañada Omagogeascoa
Project: Health Center Of Ciudad Real
Location: Ciudad Real, Spain
Collaborators: Laura Fernandez Muñoz, Isabel Dominguez Segura, Nuria Martin Alcaraz
1st Prize in Competition. The building is made up of a ground and first floor and a basement intended for a garage and storerooms. The flat roof may only be accessed for maintenance. The center is structured around a series of internal courtyards, which provide ventilation and lighting to the various rooms. Its exterior has a contemporary look, based on a perforated ceramic prism, which sits on and is supported by a block finished with prefabricated concrete slabs.
The Female Branch of Prince Naif Centre for Health Science Research is an extension to King Saud University, the most prestigious university in Saudi-Arabia. Located in the centre of Riyadh, the Prince Naif Centre features a series of teaching laboratories, multi-functional research facilities, lecture halls and seminar spaces for students and employees.
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