CITIES AND COMPLEX FACILITIES

Cities, and the buildings that compose them, have to face up to the challenges of rapid urban growth. Cities and buildings organise the territory, structure the landscape and determine the future of our societies through their multiple connections and the convergence of many and varied kinds of knowledge.

The complexity of these processes and challenges calls for an innovative approach in thinking in order to take informed decisions and create urban environments that are healthier, safer and inclusive. To create a better world.

For more than 30 years Pinearq has been developing key knowledge for the construction of efficient, habitable and sustainable environments; as a result we have accumulated solid international experience in the creative development of spaces for health. We develop and manage projects and strategies for new infrastructures and urban developments to integrate each component of the smart city through a unique vision of design.

Our work is the result of efficient design, sensitive to the setting and integrating the latest developments in the intelligent management of services, security, water, energy, waste and environmental impact.

We are always trying to enhance that experience by adding new tools which can improve our processes in design, construction and management. That is why we constantly collaborate with other organisations in promoting technology and innovative services for buildings and cities.

PINEARQ LAB

This is the channel through which we explore new ideas and relationships in order to develop our knowledge, improve our services and maximise our impact.

Here, we collect the review articles, research and innovation projects that we develop at Pinearq.

best practices, publications, technology

HOSPITALS’ MATERIALIZATION

Inma Casado writes about the materials to construct a building and the materialization of the building itself. On the one hand, we believe it is necessary to bet on a real valuation process of the necessary materials for the construction. On the other hand, materialization is the material construction of that architectural project.

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user experience, research, publications

COMFORT DIMENSIONS IN HEALTHCARE SPACES

The physical space of the hospital must allow the care process to take place in a healthy environment that helps to improve the physical condition of patients. This text, written by Paula Pestana, is based on the concept generically designated as "comfort in hospital spaces" applied in European hospitals.

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best practices, user experience, research, publications

CONVERSION OF THE HOSPITAL DEL MAR DE BARCELONA DUE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Albert de Pineda shares Pinearq's experience in the conversion of the Hospital del Mar in Barcelona, a hospital in which we have been working for almost 30 years, to adapt it to the demands of the pandemic.

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user experience, research, publications

PREPARED FOR AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE?

These days, we read and listened to examinations and choices of post-COVID life and architecture. It is not easy to get away from the contest so, here Raffaella Scorziello tries to shape trends, rather than certainties.

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HOW TO INCREASE BED CAPACITY TO ADDRESS THE COVID-19?

Arup, combining the multidisciplinary and international experience together with Pinearq's hospital design experience, has created CareBox; a guide that addresses the global need for more beds, with scalable, modular, and fast-building solutions that can be transported, deployed and applied to provide additional capacity in a range of specific environments, from existing healthcare campuses to independent facilities.

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HOSPITAL DEL MAR. DESIGN STRATEGIES FOR THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

The current health global emergency has required substantial restructuring of hospitals’ processes and the conversion of other building types, such as hotels, convention centres and sports pavilions into healthcare facilities.

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CO-CREATION FOR THE FUTURE HOSPITAL DEL MAR IN BARCELONA

To create a hospital adapted to the needs of all its users, the Hospital del Mar expansion and reform project is developed through a process of co-creation between patients, family members, health professionals and technicians.

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UN EDIFICIO MULTISOSTENIBLE: LA RESIDENCIA SANITARIA VILLAGGIO ELISABETTA

La nueva residencia sanitaria Villaggio Santa Elisabetta dará servicio a Varna, Bressanone y Luson, ciudades localizadas en el norte de Italia, casi en el límite con Austria. El proyecto, de 7.597m2, está siendo desarrollado por Pinearq, Cooprogetti y Solarraum.

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GOODBYE CAD. HELLO BIM!

BIM is a methodology in continuous evolution. For this reason, Pinearq’s BIM standardization process is a task in constant development, which allows us to generate quality projects that are always growing, efficient and increasingly useful for us and for those who participate in them in later phases.

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best practices, user experience, research

THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL

Currently, no one is surprised to see the design difference between a day-care centre and an institute but, until recently, the general hospital design was extended to child hospitalization without any difference. Spaces for children and adolescents must adapt to them and their families, from the concepts of humanization and pediatrization of spaces. In Pinearq, we are highlighting these ideas in the development of the new Pediatric Cancer Center of the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital.

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