The leisure Center for the Elderly in Azuqueca de Henares (Guadalajara), consists of a series of halls that are linked to one another. With this organization, the Center is set forth as a contemporary variation of the traditional casinos, whose rooms were laid out with a certain disorder under the mottoes of leisure, reading, play, conversation and dance.

The building consists of a low-rise pavilion, facing south, which functions as scenographic backdrop of a plot for public facilities and park across from the Town Hall, and a vertical volume containing the center’s offices, storage spaces and other facilities, emerging from the plinth to become an urban landmark, and that includes a visual intervention by artist Tim Berresheim.

The space layout, the building systems, the services, ventilation, exterior protections and landscape design have been studied to create a specific atmospheric effect and to materialize a building that produces no harmful gas emissions, based on a typology of chained spaces and alternating courtyards that is a typical type in the Castilian plateau, as well as on the use of landscaped roofs and geothermal energy as main source.