Client
City of Val Mara
Architetct
Itten+Brechbühl SA with Pessina Architects
Year
2022
Result
6th place
Program area
8,900 m2 (5,400 m2 retirement home + 3,500 m2 underground car park)
Building volume
30,100 m3 (18,700 m3 home for the elderly + 11,400 m3 underground car park)
Model
Modelli Marchesoni
Back
Val Mara, Switzerland
New elderly home with medical care in the municipality of Val Mara - Melano district
| Program | Two care housing units with 60 beds and a daytime social care center for about 15 users. | ||||||
| Competition organizer | Municipality of Val Mara | ||||||
| Competition | 6th place, 2022 | ||||||
| Architecture | Itten+Brechbühl SA mit Pessina Architetti | ||||||
| Surface area | 8'900 m2 | ||||||
| Construction volume | 30'100 m3 | ||||||
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The municipality of Val Mara has launched a competition with the goal of building a new 60-bed medical care home, divided into two care housing units, as well as a daytime social care center that will accommodate about 15 users.
The competition program calls for both indoor and outdoor collective spaces and community facilities that are accessible to the public. The project includes a car park with 130 parking spaces for residents and employees of the new facility as well as a civil defense shelter.
The competition area is located at the foot of the slopes of Monte Generoso, on the eastern shore of Lake Lugano. The site is located at the transition point between the town center and the residential expansion.
The new building is parallel to the hill, along Via Capeleta. This clear gesture defines the street space, generating a contrast with the open space of the Filanda courtyard, creating an empty, public space that follows the hill topography.
Longitudinally, the space finds a point of connection with the Filanda courtyard, relating an open space in a sequence that reinforces both the morphological characteristic of the site and the urban characteristic of development along the road axis.
The new park gathered between the building and the hill, can thus bring back memories of the space defined by former walls of the Filanda.
