Hospital de la Santísima Trinidad of Torrijos

Paz + Cal arquitectura (2)
Involved architects (3)
Paz + Cal arquitectura
Josefa Blanco de Paz
José Ramón González de la Cal
Involved architects
Emilia Benito Roldán
José Aguado Benito
María Dolores Sánchez Moya

Popular restoration, memory as a building material. The Hospital de la Santísima Trinidad (1525) is part of Teresa Enríquez's project for the transformation of the village of Torrijos into one of the first Spanish Renaissance villas. The Egas brothers and a young Alonso de Covarrubias find here the conditions to move from Elizabethan Gothic to an early Renaissance.

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The hospital, now recovered from ruin, is a pioneer in the use of the cloister as a functional sanitary structure, and also in the rough and imperfect composition of an archaic Renaissance. Built using popular methods, all the effort was concentrated on the cloister of local limestone tuff, which escapes the order of blind factories, capturing light and ventilation as elements of a new humanist architecture. The project removes the additions, opens the tympanised areas, rebuilds the missing parts, and recovers the floor and roof levels. A new structure reverses the ruin and structurally replaces the architraved order of the cloister.

Cloister - Javier Longobardo Gómez-Calcerrada
Previous state of the cloister - Javier Longobardo Gómez-Calcerrada

The restoration, by analogy, repeats the model of local carpenters and masons inexperienced in restoration but skilled in the same construction methods that gave birth to the hospital 500 years ago, also respecting the same original circular economy. The work is built with lime and sand mortar and a 21x7 cm unworked construction plank, which is rigged in different ways to build alfarjes, roofs, troughs, props and stairs. Today the hospital is back on its feet, standing in the footsteps of his memory, to continue the course of life.

In charge in the cloister - Javier Longobardo Gómez-Calcerrada

General information

Hospital de la Santísima Trinidad of Torrijos

YEAR

2020

Status

Built

Option to visit

Visit by appointment

Address

St. del Cristo, 3

45500 Torrijos - Toledo

Latitude: 39.982905305

Longitude: -4.283853229

Classification

Building materials

Ceramic

Stone

Wood

Construction system

Pre-existing brick walls with irregular masonry, rammed earth and adobe. Original cloister of porous limestone (calcareous tuff). Roof and roof trusses and wooden troughs, 210 x 70 mm square.

Built area

501 - 5000 m²

Awards

XV BEAU

Involved architects

Emilia Benito Roldán

José Aguado Benito

José Ramón González de la Cal

Josefa Blanco de Paz

María Dolores Sánchez Moya

Collaborators

Araceli Tárraga Guillén (Architecture student: survey)

Ismael de Gregorio Guarnizo (Architecture student: survey)

Jorge Morín de Pablos (Archaeological manager)

Javier Longobardo Gómez-Calcerrada (Photography)

Vicente Gómez Padilla (Technical Architect)

Josué García Herrero (Architecture student: survey)

Juan Ramón Alfaro Alfaro (Architecture student: survey)

De la Cal y Balmori (Engineering)

José Miguel Esteban Matilla (Municipal Architect)

Involved architectural firms

Paz + Cal arquitectura

Information provided by

Paz + Cal arquitectura

Website links

XV BEAU

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  • Axonometry - Paz + Cal arquitectura
  • Location plan - Paz + Cal arquitectura
  • Previous state of the cloister - Javier Longobardo Gómez-Calcerrada
  • Cloister - Javier Longobardo Gómez-Calcerrada
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Location

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Itineraries

Toledo

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