Topic of the month in Roca Gallery January: “An Aging World”

A view on architecture “Favorable sorrounding for the elderly”  writed by Albert Vitaller Santiró and Laia Isern Meix.

“The new proposals should be designed based on each person’s reality. There should be conventional housing designed inclusively for any type of users and specialized housing where users can have an active and independent lifestyle with the support of some services, depending on the needs of each individual. In the new accommodation models, what is offered to the person is not a room but a place in which to live, orienting the designs towards the combination of the own home concept with that of care home.”

Click link to read the report:

http://www.rocagallery.com/favorable-surroundings-for-the-elderly

Thank you for your visits. We’ve received more than 200 visits in the new Guttmann Center Barcelona during Sunday. In this second year of participation that is already in full performance. We guided the visits of the mixed-use building, the basement in contact on the ground where Neuroclinical and rehabilitation gym is located. On the top floors are the apartments for the promotion of the autonomous life Guttmann Barcelona Life.

More than 320 people participated in the visit of the improvement of the industrial complex into studies. We show the new Vitaller Arquitectura workspace, within the Espai Serrahima. Reuse an industrial space, a diaphanous workspace has been created that looks outside, releasing the industrial structure, leaving it in sight to put it in value.

Thank you very much to the organization of 48h Open House BCN for proposing to collaborate in showing the architectural heritage of the city of Barcelona.

“The focus of the intervention is opening the space to have natural light inside. It was a dark parking that was used as storage. It has been designed a clear workspace, that is looking outside.  Structure was relieved to give it a great value. All services are hidden behind the bookcase, who welcomes.”

The presentation of the Therapeutic Garden project was made with the motto “Sometimes a flower does make summer”.
The Fundació Salut Empordà has proposed turning the terrace of the Bernat Jaume Health Center into a therapeutic garden. This space will provide psychophysical well-being to both patients and family and professionals.

The presentation was attended by Martí Masferrer, Esther Celda, Laia Isern, Joan Canals, Anna Aldrufeu, Jordi Masquef and other members of the board of the Fundació Salut Empordà.

After the presentation, there was a tour of the future garden where you can see the marks of the result.

From here, a sponsorship campaign begins for the creation of this new space.

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The architecture in the therapeutic garden is of fundamental importance, thanks to the creation of different spaces where users can carry out very diverse activities.

These quality environments are achieved by the time the garden is introduced into the interior of the building with the placement of pots with vegetation and wooden benches. The construction of a porched space at the exit of the garden allows this smooth transition between inside and outside and thus avoid a direct exit that is not pleasant for people, as it allows users to enjoy a previous space with shade and rain cover. The garden incorporates paths that generate curved spaces in which patients as they progress can observe and touch the nature that is created such as the colorful and aromatic flowers, the harmonious water fountains and the songbirds. Around these paths there are also grass blankets that can be walked on and gravel that provide different sensations that are experienced when stepped on.

The pots are incorporated throughout the garden and are designed with organic shapes designed for integration with the environment and adapted for people in wheelchairs.

To help make this tour a pleasant walk, atmospheres are created along the way with different furniture such as benches, chairs or sunbeds that are of great importance as they provide and help patients to have places to socialize with. relatives or the users themselves, or in which to simply sit and restore their own balance.

Thanks to the organic shapes of the path, it favors the appearance of open spaces where more dynamic activities can be carried out.

On the other hand there are the porched areas in which spaces are formed that may or may not be covered. With this differentiation of environments, patients can enjoy the garden at any time of the year, as they have pergolas covered by rainy days or those that are uncovered, and so users can be aware of changes in the cycle. life, the seasons or the course of the water.

The privacy of the users is very important and that is why, thanks to the curved shapes of the paths, it is possible to create spaces that are different from each other where people can enjoy the garden alone or accompanied. Vertical plant growth is another factor that helps people find shelter.

These porch spaces have pots with vegetation where the climbing plants create environments of transition between nature and architecture, in addition to the positive stimuli that are transmitted with the combination of aromas of aromatic plants.