This project concerns the alteration and extension of the medical consulting rooms operated by Metalworkers’ Mutual Insurance Society at Carrer d’Anselm Clavé 2. The works involve constructing an intermediate floor at the usable height of the ground floor and arranging the flow of patients into two medical service units, one on each floor.
To this end, various elements will be demolished; an existing partition wall will be replaced by a 15 cm thick wall, which will require the construction of foundations; and openings will be formed in several walls, as clearly indicated on the accompanying drawings. A small sanitary block currently located where the new intermediate floor is to begin at the metal spiral staircase will be removed, although the staircase itself will be retained with minor alterations.
The façade windows will also be altered and divided horizontally into two independent sections, each operable from its corresponding floor. The glazed screen communicating with the entrance vestibule of the building will be substantially modified to allow access to the staff lobby, and high-quality etched glass will be installed to provide natural light to a group of lavatories and to the upper lobby.
The public entrance and the ground-floor waiting room will have all walls tiled to a height of 2 m. The existing tiled wall finish will therefore be retained and restored. No alteration or adaptation of the current wooden benches is envisaged. The doors leading to the consulting room and the staff lobby will be retained, properly repainted and restored, with minor modifications as specified by the Clerk of Works. The partition separating the waiting room from the consulting room currently supports wooden cupboards fixed to it.
The consulting rooms and medical facilities on the ground floor will be repaired as necessary in respect of brickwork, plasterwork, painting and finishes, leaving them in perfect condition. The treads of the public staircase will be finished in artificial granite (Figueres colour), with coloured tiled risers. The tread thickness will be 7 cm and no terminal moulding will be provided. The landing will be paved with 40 x 40 cm slabs of the same artificial granite. The staircase dado will consist of coloured tiles to a height of 1.30 m. A timber handrail will be fixed to the right-hand wall. The service staircase will be the same as that currently used to access the existing mezzanine, but adapted to the new height.
The mezzanine waiting room and its corresponding lobby will be paved with first-quality hydraulic mosaic tiles, of the colour and specification indicated by the Clerk of Works. The benches and caretaker’s kiosk in this room will not be constructed. All walls will be clad with coloured tiles to a height of 1.80 m. The doors will be flush and constructed from double plywood panels.
The balustrade to the lobby and that at the top of the staircase will consist of a 1½-inch iron tube handrail welded to vertical iron bars at 12 cm centres, of equal or superior quality. Walls will be tiled to a height of 1.80 m and finished with double plywood boarding where specified. A porcelain washbasin with special lever taps will be installed in each consulting room. The partition separating the two sanitary facilities on the ground floor will be constructed of glass blocks above a height of 1.80 m. The partitions separating the WCs and urinals from the washbasins will be 1.80 m high. All doors to these sanitary areas will be flush and constructed of double plywood panels. To ensure proper ventilation of the ground-floor sanitary facilities, a ventilation duct will be built into the wall of the building’s central lobby, connecting both facilities and terminating at roof level. Throughout its route, the affected wall will be made good and painted to match the adjoining rooms. The mezzanine sanitary facilities will be ventilated by means of a small circular window opening onto the façade and communicating with the void of the first window in the waiting room. Proper drainage will be constructed for these facilities to the main sewer, making use of existing drainage runs where possible. The electrical installation will comprise 20 lighting points, the positions of which are indicated on the drawings. In addition, two socket outlets will be installed in each mezzanine consulting room. These, together with the switches, will be positioned as directed by the Clerk of Works.
