This new educational and health campus will be located in the heart of Pueblo Bávaro, a mixed-use area of approximately 5.4M square feet. The project’s first phase will develop the design of a master plan to offer a solution that will lead to an innovative solution model that will serve as a reference for the entire Dominican Republic.

The concept of the project is about carrying out a unique and ambitious idea, joining in an unprecedented model of different uses: health, training and information, within a framework of shared and innovative development, which allows a harmonious coexistence of the various services and transforming the space into an urban catalyst of the environment: a Clinic Express or Primary Care Center under the “walk-in clinic” model; a General Hospital Center; a hub that groups the Medical Offices, Laboratory and Pharmacy; and a stand-alone Convention Center.

The resulting layout aims to show a homogeneous image of the intervention, structured along axes, flexible and contemplating the possibility of future growth. In addition, it seeks to create a sustainable and profitable service, proposing a functional, feasible, atypical model that provides added value to its environment, which stands out for its excellence and is, above all, profitable.

When architecture acts on historical buildings, it becomes responsible for the memory and identity of the place in which it is intervening.

luis vidal + architects has completely refurbished a 19th-century building located in the center of Santiago de Chile, carefully restoring and recovering it piece by piece. At the same time, its proposal included the design and construction of a new building within the existing plot (the General Healthcare Clinic – CESFAM), which aimed to establish a dialogue with the heritage building (a community center now), combining tradition and modernity.

The heart of the project lies in the dialogue between the two buildings that make up the Matta Sur Complex, the old one and the new one, through a homogeneous architectural language based on rhythm, materiality and spatiality. The design of the new building is respectful and discreet to enhance the original building. As a result of this dialogue, a new public space, the plaza, arises as a connecting element between the two centers.

The Matta Sur complex has a program that came out from neighbors’ surveys and is the answer to the challenge of the cities of the future and to what today’s societies need most urgently: more public spaces where neighbors can co-exist, share, be connected, and foster a sense of community. A project that, having been nominated and won on over ten occasions since its opening, keeps getting the attention of media and users worldwide.

Obtaining the first LEED Platinum certification in the world for the integrated campus of Loyola University means the culmination of a complete dedication to one of the design typologies that assumes great responsibility for an architect: hosting the personal and spiritual development of human beings in a crucial stage of their youth.

When Loyola University commissioned luis vidal + architects to design the first private university in Andalusia, the Latin root of the word “universatis” marked the starting point of a project that now dives into its second phase: universality, integration. To achieve this, one of the practice’s characteristic architectural values was decisive: flexibility. Inaugurated before Covid-19 is precisely the flexibility and capacity for integration that have made this campus an example of adaptation to the health and safety requirements of the pandemic, keeping the facilities functioning without post-pandemic design interventions.

Personal and spiritual development is at the heart of the architectural proposal, which is symbolically represented in the two axes that run through the campus: the longitudinal one, which extends along common spaces (classrooms, administration, cafeteria and laboratories), is for knowledge, while the transversal one, which is materialized through spaces such as the library and the chapel, stands for human and spiritual development.

A vast square is formed at the intersection of the axes, a public meeting space inspired by traditional Andalusian architecture that imagines these spaces as prosperous social centers.

The quality of a design is also a reflection of elements that are not strictly architectural, but absolutely necessary. In this case, the Botín Center reflects the successful collaboration between two architects with a common language: Luis Vidal and Renzo Piano.

The result of this successful collaboration, where light, flexibility, transparency and dialogue with the city generate a beautiful synergy, is a design that has transformed the city of Santander, bringing the historic center and its centenary gardens closer to the bay, where the Botín Center is located.

The building hangs over the land, suspended over the sea. It is composed of two volumes, in response to the need to create an art center and an informative programmatic space, including an auditorium conceived as a multifunctional box, capable of hosting concerts, conferences and creative events such as workshops.

A series of light steel and glass walkways separate the two rounded volumes of the building, creating a new public square located above sea level.

The Botín Center manages to capture the sunlight intensely, the water’s brightness and Cantabria’s unique atmosphere. An architectural symphony at the foot of the Atlantic Ocean.

The new spaces for teaching and faculty use at building A of the Alfonso X el Sabio University campus (UAX) in Villanueva de la Cañada have opened their doors after a transformation that offers a more open and brighter image, with an outstanding commitment to the newest technological equipment.

A contemporary interior that embraces digital teaching.

The new classrooms offer excellent continuity and spatial permeability to the complex through a “floating surface” of sound-absorbing louvres independent to the partition, thus creating a continuous and fluid space.

The new faculty spaces, which are open and transparent now, have gone through a transformation to promote teamwork among teachers and a close collaboration with students. These spaces are developed radially, starting, from the red brick patio to the outer perimeter; from the most public areas, such as the high tables around the patio meant for working with an agile methodology, followed by the teamwork tables, to the most private spaces, such as individual offices, all of them having excellent acoustic comfort that favors work and concentration.

This new educational and health campus will be located in the heart of Pueblo Bávaro, a mixed-use area of approximately 5.4M square feet. The project’s first phase will develop the design of a master plan to offer a solution that will lead to an innovative solution model that will serve as a reference for the entire Dominican Republic.

The concept of the project is about carrying out a unique and ambitious idea, joining in an unprecedented model of different uses: health, training and information, within a framework of shared and innovative development, which allows a harmonious coexistence of the various services and transforming the space into an urban catalyst of the environment: a Clinic Express or Primary Care Center under the “walk-in clinic” model; a General Hospital Center; a hub that groups the Medical Offices, Laboratory and Pharmacy; and a stand-alone Convention Center.

The resulting layout aims to show a homogeneous image of the intervention, structured along axes, flexible and contemplating the possibility of future growth. In addition, it seeks to create a sustainable and profitable service, proposing a functional, feasible, atypical model that provides added value to its environment, which stands out for its excellence and is, above all, profitable.

The new UAX campus in Malaga aims to become an icon, a meeting point for the community and a model of mutual exchange with the environment. Located in a constantly developing area the complex not only takes inspiration from the surrounding landscape but also contributes programmatic features to the city.

The design favours a flexible educational model of interconnection between the citizen and the city, as well as between students and faculty; a model for the university of the future based on research into specific user needs.

By means of a natural system that leaves behind physical barriers, a gradation is proposed from the exterior, which looks almost opaque, to a permeable and luminous interior. On a macro scale, a large central axis connects two urban landmarks, freeing up a series of public spaces or squares around which the main volumes are organized. On an interior scale, each of these volumes has large, high atriums, which serve as meeting points for students and teachers, and are accessed through covered patios. This gradient space makes the program more flexible and allows for an exchange of uses between indoors and outdoors. The whole system ensures the possibility of future growth.

In addition, through a rigorous study of sunlight with specialized software, a strategic shading element has been designed to accompany the volumes at different heights, reducing direct solar incidence by up to 60%, in a quest for energy efficiency. This attitude positions the campus as a candidate for the first LEED Zero certification of its kind.

The need to cover a large surface over a river became a great conflict with the project’s sustainability; therefore, the solution was to design a fully open structure in all its extension.

The structure, composed of a range of sloping arches that fall in series and weave between them, gives shape to a surface that envelopes, shades, and hosts the platform that articulates all the levels of the project.

The arch sequence defines the diverse support points for the ramp. This fiberglass structure creates a wrapping that defines an open and protected space.

The pavilion is delicately integrated into the riverside topography, allowing visitors to enjoy the spaces in the bridge and the landscape around it.