Centre de Salut Son Ferriol
The project starts with a simple question: how can a building designed to care for people also care for its surroundings, its materials and its own future?
Beyond meeting the functional needs of a healthcare centre, the project seeks to create a calm, welcoming and human place. Natural light, timber, vegetation and a sequence of courtyards shape the everyday experience of the building, bringing nature closer to spaces for waiting, circulation and recovery.
The courtyards become the heart of the project. They bring daylight into the deepest interior spaces, help people orient themselves and offer moments of pause along the journey through the building.
This same intention to care extends to the way the building is constructed.
Deciduous trees filter sunlight according to the seasons, allowing climate, the passing of time and the landscape to become part of the architecture.
The structure made of cross-laminated timber (CLT), cork insulation, natural materials and dry construction systems reduce unnecessary layers and allow the building to be understood as a set of elements that can, in the future, be separated, reused or transformed.
Son Ferriol is therefore not only about how a healthcare centre works today, but also about the relationship it establishes between people, nature and resources over time.
A building conceived as a living system: warm, adaptable and responsible, designed to care for the people who inhabit it while leaving the smallest possible footprint.
CREDITS
Architects: Laboqueria Arquitectura + Munarq
Technical Architecture: Esther Boluda
Environmental Engineering and Consultin: QNTM-management
Client: IBSalut
Structural Engineering: Miguel Nevado
Collaborators: Marc Gispert
