The Alausí Health Center
A healthcare facility section precedent demonstrating how to integrate biophilic living walls, public art murals, and transparent waiting lobbies into a low-rise community layout.
- What we like about this project
- A vibrant artistic mural directly integrated into the glazed entry facade functions as both privacy screen and community landmark.
Materials
- glass
- brick
- timber
- stucco
- plant-foliage
- steel
Visual identifiers
- building-section
- living-wall
- glass-lobby
- mural-art
- clerestory-windows
Style tags
- contemporary
- civic
- biophilic
- transparent
Visual tags
- healthcare
- community-center
- section-perspective
- biophilic
- transparent-facade
- Geometry
- Low-slung orthogonal building section cut openly along the foreground, revealing interior spaces while maintaining an exterior paved approach and green wall.
- Facade system
- Curtain wall entrance paired with opaque wall assemblies and integrated exterior vertical planting systems.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with non-loadbearing partitions and floor slabs resting on grade.
- Spatial scale
- Single-story public health facility scaled for pedestrian accessibility and community comfort.
- Lighting
- Evening or twilight exterior sky balanced by warm interior artificial lighting spilling out through full-height glass and clerestories.
- Atmosphere
- Welcoming, warm, and community-oriented against the cool twilight background.
- Environmental context
- Hilly terrain and dark treed slopes visible in the upper background under a deep blue twilight sky.
- Spatial experience
- A clear spatial sequence moves from the open outdoor approach past a living wall into a transparent waiting lobby and private administrative or clinical rooms.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal roof overhangs coupled with alternating vertical structural glazing bays and solid brick/plaster volumes.
- Style reading
- Contemporary civic healthcare architecture
- Program
- Community health center with waiting hall, consultation rooms, and public entry plaza
- Perspective
- Drawing / Diagram
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, brick, timber, stucco, plant-foliage, steel
- Visual identifiers
- building-section, living-wall, glass-lobby, mural-art, clerestory-windows
- Style tags
- contemporary, civic, biophilic, transparent
- Visual tags
- healthcare, community-center, section-perspective, biophilic, transparent-facade
- Geometry
- Low-slung orthogonal building section cut openly along the foreground, revealing interior spaces while maintaining an exterior paved approach and green wall.
- Facade system
- Curtain wall entrance paired with opaque wall assemblies and integrated exterior vertical planting systems.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with non-loadbearing partitions and floor slabs resting on grade.
- Spatial scale
- Single-story public health facility scaled for pedestrian accessibility and community comfort.
- Lighting
- Evening or twilight exterior sky balanced by warm interior artificial lighting spilling out through full-height glass and clerestories.
- Atmosphere
- Welcoming, warm, and community-oriented against the cool twilight background.
- Environmental context
- Hilly terrain and dark treed slopes visible in the upper background under a deep blue twilight sky.
- Spatial experience
- A clear spatial sequence moves from the open outdoor approach past a living wall into a transparent waiting lobby and private administrative or clinical rooms.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal roof overhangs coupled with alternating vertical structural glazing bays and solid brick/plaster volumes.
- Style reading
- Contemporary civic healthcare architecture
- Program
- Community health center with waiting hall, consultation rooms, and public entry plaza
- Perspective
- Drawing / Diagram
- Discipline
- architecture