The University of Barcelona and Clínic Barcelona bring together leading architects in the hospital sector to lay the design foundations for the new campus
El director general del Clínic Barcelona, Josep Maria Campistol; el rector de la Universitat de Barcelona, Joan Guàrdia; el director de CatSalut, Ramon Canal i, l’arquitecte i coordinador del màster, Ramon Sanabria.
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The University of Barcelona and Clínic Barcelona have announced the launch of the master’s degree in Hospital Architecture-New Clinic Campus in an event held in the Auditorium of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. This new programme will be the basis for defining the architectural design of the installations for the Campus on Avinguda Diagonal. A single edition of the master’s degree will be offered, for the current academic year, with a total of ten places available.
El director general del Clínic Barcelona, Josep Maria Campistol; el rector de la Universitat de Barcelona, Joan Guàrdia; el director de CatSalut, Ramon Canal i, l’arquitecte i coordinador del màster, Ramon Sanabria.
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Institutional
20/09/2024
The University of Barcelona and Clínic Barcelona have announced the launch of the master’s degree in Hospital Architecture-New Clinic Campus in an event held in the Auditorium of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. This new programme will be the basis for defining the architectural design of the installations for the Campus on Avinguda Diagonal. A single edition of the master’s degree will be offered, for the current academic year, with a total of ten places available.
The launch of this programme marks another step towards the construction of the new campus. It is intended for architecture professionals specializing in the hospital sector, and successful applicants will work on preliminary designs taking into account not only architectural and urban planning requirements but also the teaching, research and patient care aspects of the project, which aims to be innovative, people-focused, sustainable, efficient, and internationally competitive.
The proposals that provide the best fit with the two institutions’ needs will be considered in the international call for design submissions, which will be announced in 2026 to coincide with Barcelona’s designation as World Capital of Architecture in the same year. The Diagonal Health axis, as the site will be named, is set to become a major hub for activities in various areas of healthcare and scientific research. As such, it will need to address the diverse needs of many different groups (patients, students, researchers, local residents and the general public), all of which must be given due consideration and attention.
During the event, the rector of the University of Barcelona, Joan Guàrdia, expressed his satisfaction with this latest step in the creation of the Campus: “Today we go a little further towards defining the reality of what will be one of the most exciting projects for the institutions involved, for the city and for our country in the very near future. Bringing together the foremost university, the best hospital and excellent research institutions in a space that that offers such enormous potential makes this project one of the key challenges for Catalonia in the next ten years.”
The general director of Clínic Barcelona, Josep Maria Campistol, explained: “For a long time we have been discussing the need to expand the Hospital Clínic, and now we are finally starting the project, in collaboration with all the other institutions of the campus. We are working together towards a common goal, and this master’s degree that we have announced today, with the participating of leading professionals, will help us greatly. We deserve this project, which must create a hub for patient care, research and teaching that all of Europe can look up to. There are still many milestones to reach, but with everyone’s commitment, we will achieve it”.
The proposals that provide the best fit with the two institutions’ needs will be considered in the international call for design submissions, which will be announced in 2026 to coincide with Barcelona’s designation as World Capital of Architecture in the same year. The Diagonal Health axis, as the site will be named, is set to become a major hub for activities in various areas of healthcare and scientific research. As such, it will need to address the diverse needs of many different groups (patients, students, researchers, local residents and the general public), all of which must be given due consideration and attention.
During the event, the rector of the University of Barcelona, Joan Guàrdia, expressed his satisfaction with this latest step in the creation of the Campus: “Today we go a little further towards defining the reality of what will be one of the most exciting projects for the institutions involved, for the city and for our country in the very near future. Bringing together the foremost university, the best hospital and excellent research institutions in a space that that offers such enormous potential makes this project one of the key challenges for Catalonia in the next ten years.”
The general director of Clínic Barcelona, Josep Maria Campistol, explained: “For a long time we have been discussing the need to expand the Hospital Clínic, and now we are finally starting the project, in collaboration with all the other institutions of the campus. We are working together towards a common goal, and this master’s degree that we have announced today, with the participating of leading professionals, will help us greatly. We deserve this project, which must create a hub for patient care, research and teaching that all of Europe can look up to. There are still many milestones to reach, but with everyone’s commitment, we will achieve it”.
The two institutions announce the master’s degree in Hospital Architecture for the new Clínic Campus, which will be offered as a single edition for 2024–2025 to ten students.
The director of CatSalut, Ramon Canal, announced: “This is a great opportunity to build a globally renowned campus. The symbiosis of hospital and university is the key to its competitiveness. Now the challenge is to design a hospital for the next hundred years; we must anticipate how we will work in the coming century”.
The architect Ramon Sanabria, who will coordinate the master’s degree, explained: “The new Clínic Campus will establish a new urban centre on a site that will be visited by more than forty thousand people every day. The outcome of the programme should pave the way for the international call for design submissions, which we want to hold in 2026, when Barcelona will be the World Capital of Architecture”.
The master’s degree will be coordinated by the architect Ramon Sanabria and taught in conjunction with the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
A strategic project
The future Clínic Campus will be located at the southern end of Avinguda Diagonal in Barcelona and will provide some 300,000 square metres of built space to house the new Hospital Clínic, the UB’s Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and various leading research centres. Based in the Diagonal Health axis, alongside the Sant Joan de Déu Campus, the Barcelona Science Park and the Zona Universitària university site, the Clínic Campus represents one of the most ambitious strategic projects planned for Catalonia for the coming decade. As reflected in the agreement signed at the beginning of 2024, the development of this major hospital site at the southern entrance to Barcelona is a collaborative undertaking involving the Government of Catalonia, the University of Barcelona, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona Provincial Council, and the municipal authorities of Barcelona, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat and Esplugues de Llobregat.
The architect Ramon Sanabria, who will coordinate the master’s degree, explained: “The new Clínic Campus will establish a new urban centre on a site that will be visited by more than forty thousand people every day. The outcome of the programme should pave the way for the international call for design submissions, which we want to hold in 2026, when Barcelona will be the World Capital of Architecture”.
The master’s degree will be coordinated by the architect Ramon Sanabria and taught in conjunction with the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
A strategic project
The future Clínic Campus will be located at the southern end of Avinguda Diagonal in Barcelona and will provide some 300,000 square metres of built space to house the new Hospital Clínic, the UB’s Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and various leading research centres. Based in the Diagonal Health axis, alongside the Sant Joan de Déu Campus, the Barcelona Science Park and the Zona Universitària university site, the Clínic Campus represents one of the most ambitious strategic projects planned for Catalonia for the coming decade. As reflected in the agreement signed at the beginning of 2024, the development of this major hospital site at the southern entrance to Barcelona is a collaborative undertaking involving the Government of Catalonia, the University of Barcelona, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona Provincial Council, and the municipal authorities of Barcelona, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat and Esplugues de Llobregat.
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