The external/internal Access follows a process of instrumentalisation of the transit, in which the passage from one to the other is perceived in an intense fashion. The entrance is thought the piece clad in granite, whose opening invites you to slide towards the inside, not without perceiving the compression of this piece to immediately proceed to decompress the space and provoke a more intense perception of the inner space.

This access space, which breaks with the axiality or the perception of the axes, flows in all directions, showing the complexity of the unity, but showing itself as the ball bearing on which all spaces converge and diverge. The rest of the interior is defined by infinite circulations, which are penetrated horizontally and vertically, which define transitions spaces between the inside and the outside, shaded by the light which moulds them, taking advantage of the segregation produced between closures and façades, as spaces where transits can be felt, when the weather prevents or hinders outdoor strolling.

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DAY CENTER FOR THE ELDERLY. ORCASITAS, MADRID

The project discourse is subjected to a strict control of geometries and volumes, in a constant attempt to clarify and identify with precision the different components intervening in the general process, establishing clear-cut patterns in the relation-ships between inner space and outdoor space, in a mechanism in which the natural lighting takes on an important role.

The project of day centre for the elderly is the result of the consolidation of the southern area of Madrid. The proposal was that the building should constitute a piece of reference in an undifferentiated space, in a Topos in which the activation of Chronos would represent breaking up the existing analogy, enriching and redefining a new topology of the developed medium.

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