Madrasah’ Health Science Campus

The project seeks to create a sequence of public and private spaces within and through the buildings, referencing the old city, just as Campus Compact does but on a smaller scale. It will not be the architecture of each building but the coherence of the buildings into a single entity that will demonstrate the quality of the campus. As all the buildings and gardens of the Alhambra have an unmistakable beauty, it is the complex as an entity that stands out for its excellence.

The building for the new School of Medicine is conceived as a compact city, a world of different scales and interconnected spaces through courtyards, streets and volumes.
A reading of the historical layers of the city reinterpreted to form a unitary whole, resulting in a solid sculpture of lights and shadows where the different floors of the building are related through interconnected voids.
Its essential concept is based on the understanding of its program, in the desire to create a living architectural element that reflects and promotes the activity of its users. A generator of activity as this Institution has been for centuries, where inhabitants and visitors enjoy each space as if it were a piece of the city.
Topological relationships prevail over geometric ones, the connection between the parts as opposed to the regulation systems of proportions and measures, thus achieving a high degree of flexibility. Since its urban implantation, the route through the building has no origin or end, it consists of being guided by the currents, by the accidents of matter rather than in saving a precise distance. It is a continuous route, one enters, goes up, crosses, or goes around, where the spatial experience is enriched as one moves forward.