Located in Palma’s Polígono de Levante district, the project occupies a transitional site between the city’s industrial past, its emerging residential developments, and its redefined eastern boundary. Once a peripheral zone marked by infrastructural fragmentation and underutilized land, the area is now undergoing a significant transformation of its urban landscape.

The expansion of public space, the introduction of new transport infrastructure, and the construction of major facilities such as the Convention Center have collectively reshaped Palma’s coastal edge.

The project is the result of layered authorship: between urban planners, the developer, the healthcare operator— who will manage and inhabit the building—and a network of technical agents and municipal authorities. Like an architectural cadavre exquis, the hospital carries the imprint of many hands, intentions and agendas.

Within this predefined envelope by urban planing, architecture becomes a space of negotiation—an exercise in mediation between capital, care, and regulation. And perhaps there is yet another layer of authorship: that of the ailing body the hospital is ultimately built to host. That of the machines—imposing spatial, structural, and material constraints to accommodate radiation shielding, magnetic fields, and surgical precision; and that of the ground itself.

The architect’s creative role lies in negotiating constraints with the context—never operating from a blank slate. Each local conflict calls precise responses that reconcile competing demands. It is in these moments that aesthetic sensitivity, attention to the user, and technical ingenuity converge.

The multi-level courtyard design responds to the hospital’s internal logistics—separating flows of people and goods across two levels. At the same time, it reconciles urban planning requirements for permeable ground with geotechnical constraints, such as a high water table just above the second basement level.