Designing and reusing buildings for healthcare: Challenges in hospital architecture in the face of its urgent demands

Abstract

Otxotorena Arquitectos' experience in the world of healthcare architecture has, so far, been mainly concerned with the teaching and research hospital of the School of Medicine of the Navarra University, the Clínica Universidad de Navarra, in Pamplona. Together with this team, Juan Otxotorena has overseen an ongoing series of rehabilitations and renovations over the las 20 years at the site where it was first built 50 years ago, and more recently, has led the ground-up construction of its bran-new headquarters in Madrid.