Maternity and Oncologic Parking / Díaz y Díaz

Arquitectos + Rafael Ángel Otero Mosquera

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 Architects
Díaz y Díaz Arquitectos, Rafael Ángel Otero Mosquera
 Location
A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain
 Architects in Charge
 Gustavo Díaz García, Lucas Díaz Sierra, Rafael Ángel Otero Mosquera
 Constructor
Copasa
 Area
10000.0 sqm
 Project Year
2015
 Photographs
Héctor Santos-Díez
 © Héctor
Text description provided by the architects. The new building provide a parking area to the
environment of the Children´s and Maternity Hospital and the Oncologic Center of Galicia,
which currently lacks a similar equipment, creating a new area with a public space and
pedestrian connection between the two health centers.
© Héctor Santos-Díez
The proposed solution includes a parking of 366 spaces (of which 37 are intended for
disabled 23 for families), distributed in 10,000 square meters if building area, with four
floors in basement, beneath the road which gives access to the Oncologic Center of Galicia
from the avenue A Pasaxe. The parking has a total of two entrances and two exits on floor 0,
-1 and -3, which offers advantages for the internal operation of parking while improving
the flow of traffic outside.
Floor Plan
The plot is surrounded by a roadway that connects the Children´s and Maternity Hospital
and the Oncologic Center of Galicia. This street goes up from the lower part of the plot,
height 26.15m, located at the exit of the tunnel that leads to the Maternity Hospital, to the
height 47.77m, coinciding with the connection to Oncologic Center of Galicia.
The height difference of the plot generates a great natural wall formed by rock and
vegetation, which is used for digging and parking building. This arrangement results in the
creation of several entries from different levels of the street that borders the plot.
Elevation
The building consists of 4 floors of covered parking, plus the roof floor parking facility abd
the new access to the plaza that connects to the Oncological Center. The parking stories are
divided into two levels with a height difference of 1.60m, creating a system of staggered
intermediate floors, connected by ramps located on the longitudinal axis of the building.
A large volume containing the main stairs of the building, saves the great difference in
height, and allows the pedestrian connection between the two centers connected with a
walkway that extends to the Children´s and Maternal Hospital. This nucleus becomes a
landmark, giving character to the building, so it was very important to work its image.

The façade is made out of prefabricated concrete textured panels in the areas in contact
with the ground, creating a hard basing, on which a colored light metal slats box rests,
which recall the aspect of vehicle bodies. The building is open on four sides, so that
ventilation is achieved naturally