Facade of Clínica Santa Clara in Morón, with the main entrance and the institutional sign

Clínica Santa Clara

Healthcare

Morón, Buenos Aires2024

The project

Renewed without closing.

Santa Clara could not be switched off for the renovation. The clinic kept seeing patients while the building recovered its facade, roofs, walls, ceilings and a run of rooms that no longer matched their use. The entrance reads from the street again. Inside, emergency, walk-in care, wards, the hall and the waiting rooms are reworked in finishes and in the way people wait.

The hardest stretch was the basement: a new imaging department, built while the clinic stayed open. The project plan marks the new wall in red and shows what is kept and what is rebuilt, based on a new spatial layout. The photographs record the facade, the reception desk, the waiting rooms, a corridor and a ward already in use.

Practice
Healthcare
Location
Morón, Buenos Aires
Year
2024
Area
7,865 m²
Status
Built
Photography
Site photographs

Before and after

The same frame, two moments: facades and interiors in Morón, El Talar and Florencio Varela, with the network still open.

Facade of Clínica Santa Clara in Morón before the renewal, with scaffolding and a worn frontBefore
Renewed facade of Clínica Santa Clara in Morón, with a canopy and the entrance signAfter
Entrance hall of Clínica Santa Clara during works, with floor protection and a covered counterBefore
Finished entrance hall of Clínica Santa Clara, with the counter and institutional logoAfter
Corridor at Clínica Santa Clara before the renovation, with the old floor and loose signageBefore
The same corridor afterwards: bumper rail, pale floor and continuous ceiling lightAfter
Facade of Clínica Santa Clara in El Talar before the glass skinBefore
El Talar facade afterwards, with the glass skin and Santa Clara signAfter
Facade of Clínica Santa Clara in Florencio Varela before the renewalBefore
Renewed Florencio Varela facade, with the entrance and institutional signAfter

Project decisions

The renovation was carried out with the clinic open: waterproofing, facade, emergency, wards, hall and waiting rooms.

A complete imaging department was built in the basement.

Keep what is its own. Transform what is needed.

A project starts by understanding what already exists. Tell us where it is, what programme it covers, and what stage it has reached. We answer every enquiry personally, from the studio in Buenos Aires.