The Basque Country University (UPV-EHU) has awarded a the contract for technical assistance in the design and construction management of the new building for the Faculty of Medicine and Nursing in Basurto to KREAN.

The new building has a construction period of 36 months and will have a usable floor area of 32,000 m². It will house the degrees in Medicine, Physiotherapy and Nursing, as well as the teaching of seven official master's degrees in the area of Health Sciences. Located next to the Basurto hospital care centre, it will create a Health Pole, reinforced by a Technology Pole that will house the research areas and their laboratories.

The design of the general envelope is characterised by the search for an institutional image, representative of the UPV-EHU, through a timeless and figurative language; a compositional system based on the repetition of a span or module, which is capable of adapting to the great variety of interior spaces, and their possible future modifications.

The new Faculty and the Basurto Hospital are connected by means of a direct pedestrian connection on floor -1, which will connect with the Hospital grounds below the level of the ground floor.