The Hospital de Reus, an exemplary project for the use of lattices for hospitals
Reus is a city of more than 100,000 inhabitants, capital of the Baix Camp region. Just 14 kilometres from Tarragona, the capital of the province, at the beginning of the last century it was considered the second city by population in Catalonia, only behind Barcelona. As a result of this historical importance, the city has several theaters and a wide cultural offer, which together with its privileged location and the diverse commercial offer, make it an important tourist and economic center.
The city has a high quality of services, which is reflected in an airport with significant traffic, especially in summer, and various public service buildings, such as the San Joan University Hospital in Reus. The latter, the result of an investment of 120 million euros, is the reference center in the region, and has an area of more than 93,000 square meters, in which it offers plastic, vascular or thoracic surgery services and oncology specialties, among others.
Location: Reus, Catalonia
Customer: UTE Hospital de Reus
Architects: Corea & Moran Arquitectura + Pich-Aguilera Architects
Typology: Healthcare Architecture
Sun protection needs
The Sant Joan Hospital in Reus has a complex network of pipes, pipes and evacuation and ventilation systems that run through each and every one of the floors of the centre. Electricity, medical gases, vacuum, water and communication networks, among others, are transmitted through them, so that their integration into the design of a building like this requires special attention.
For the access and correct maintenance of the pipes that give life to an infrastructure like this, a system of slats that is adapted is needed. Hence our range of lattices for hospitals, a system adapted to the concealment of unwanted views, protection from the direct action of the sun on the ducts, and that still offers good ventilation. It must be flexible so that it can be easily dismantled (machine change, filters or maintenance), but it must also be weatherproof, and with an attractive design.
Combining all these capabilities, our range of lattices for hospitals was born.
Our contribution to the project
Our
UPF-105
are one of the most popular proposals for the demanding requirements of healthcare architecture, and this center is another example of its capabilities.
For this project, this material has been selected for the closure of the hospital’s driving areas and machine rooms, including both the parts that can be seen in the images and the areas hidden from the public. In these areas, hinged access frames of one and two leaves, accessible openings, and lattices with different slat spacings have been manufactured and installed to adapt both to the opening and to the technical needs of the project.
On the one hand, it is a technically well-resolved product, with a solid clipping system that gives it superior wind resistance, a wide range of load-bearing frames, ranging from removable fixed modules, to sliding frames, hinged, etc. and that provides an additional level of durability thanks to the quality of all its components.
On the other hand, we are dealing with a product capable of providing aesthetic value to buildings, both for the precision of its machining (which guarantees the same measurement between axes of all the openings and therefore a uniform aesthetic) and for the attention paid to its finishes (corner solutions for live miters, flexibility of the clearance between slats to suit the requirements of ventilation clearance, etc.)
All these factors are combined in a product that, thanks to the high efficiency in its production (with hardly any demerits between input and output), and an advanced design of its shapes, moves in highly competitive figures, which allows us to have a lot of experience in large-volume projects, which makes them one of our most popular proposals for lattices for hospitals
