PROJECT: Religious Residence in Sant Feliu in Llobregat (Barcelona)

Collaborators: ANTONIO SÁNCHEZ-FORTUNY, architect., BLAZQUEZ/GÜANTER, structures.

LOCATION: Cornellá road, 15. “Bon Salvador” Sector.

DATE: October 2003

SPONSOR: CONGREGACIÓN “HIJAS DEL BUEN SALVADOR DE CAEN”

BUILDER: CONSTRUCCIONES MEDITERRANEAS S.A.

BUDGET: 836.320,36 €

BUILT SURFACE: 1.756,61 m2

The functional program is developed in a Building of 20 bedrooms, a living room, offices and waiting rooms, a dining room both for the inhabitants and for guests and an area for services such as a chapel and a library. The chapel and library are both located on two separate buildings.

The building has two floors: the top one dedicated solely to bedrooms (14) and offices with related facilities, and the rest of the units are located on the ground floor. This floor also includes a set of 6 bedrooms with shared facilities. Access between the two floors is through a linear staircase in a double room from which you access the main units of the building.

The main volume two storeys high is situated perpendicular to the road, with a good southeasterly facing aspect for the bedrooms and living rooms, placing the dining rooms and facilities in the rear of the building plus a single storey volume for access to the independent facilities.

The chapel and the library have been configured as single storey volumes, at either side of the entrance to the retirement home and near the main entrance of the building, to ensure that their usage does not compromise the functioning of normal activities of the private residence.

A private garden organized by the locations of shrubs between the building and the riverside forest generates different relationships with the bedrooms volume and the library.