During last years, the Municipality of Seville has tried to provide the poorest neighbourhoods in town with the new public facilities they lacked. The problem then was to find the proper sites, given that those areas are very dense and compact. So, this kind of projects had to deal with very small and irregular plots, like this one, which is an irregular waste space by a residential H-shaped blocks area.

Considering also that this kind of Medical Centre should not be higher than 3 storeys, the design was addressed to fill the available maximum volume to make room to a demanding program of uses. The best way was to use the periphery to locate the medical offices, with their waiting spaces in front, and leaving the resulting central void as the “plaza” in which the visitors could meet before being received by the doctors.

As a response to the somehow hostile and noisy environment, this inner atrium is isolated and bright, lit by a regular series of triangular skylights, facing south.

The sharp contrast between a dark grey exterior (made of vertical prefab concrete panels and stainless steel) and a luminous interior is intentioned; designed to enhance the experience of the visitor who leaves the traffic crowded streets and enters the quiet atrium through a wide porch.

The roof of the building, surrounded by much higher structures is quite visible from the dwellings beside. Considering this, the roof is designed as a yard, using green synthetic lawn, furnish by the prismatic skylights.