SV60 Arquitectos Completes 10,490 m² Home for Dependent People

SV60 Arquitectos has completed the Home for Dependent People, a 10,490-square-meter residential care facility designed in 2025. Antonio G. Liñán served as lead architect on the project. Jesús Granada provided the photographs.

The building's program addresses a specific population: residents with, in the architects' words, "varying degrees of dependence on others and on a comfortable and pleasant environment." At nearly 10,500 square meters, the project ranks among the substantial care-sector commissions completed in Spain this year.

The architects ground the design in a conceptual argument about time. They open their text with a broad observation: "Young and old have one thing in common: they are defined by their relationship with time." They continue: "People's relationship with time is ephemeral and fleeting."

From that premise, SV60 Arquitectos frames the building as an instrument for shaping daily experience. "The architecture we propose seeks to improve conditions so that all inhabitants, with varying degrees of dependence on others and on a comfortable and pleasant environment, find themselves in the best possible conditions for time and space to merge into a single point, a Place where the world works better."

The statement positions the facility as more than a clinical container. The practice argues that architecture can actively produce the conditions under which care succeeds — that comfort, pleasantness and dependency are design variables, not afterthoughts.

The scale of the commission matters. A 10,490-square-meter footprint signals a significant institutional investment in dependent-care housing, a typology that has drawn increasing attention from architects across Europe as populations age. SV60 Arquitectos' project contributes a Spanish case study to that field, pairing a large program with a philosophical brief about temporality and place.

Antonio G. Liñán's role as lead architect places the project within SV60 Arquitectos' ongoing body of work. The firm's text, issued as its own description of the building, makes clear that the design team sees care architecture as a question of merging time and space for its inhabitants — of making "a Place where the world works better."

Jesús Granada, the photographer credited with the project's images, is a frequent documenter of contemporary Spanish architecture. His photographs serve as the primary visual record of the completed facility.

The project joins the 2025 cohort of completed care buildings and stands as a reference point for how large-scale dependent-living programs can be framed architecturally — not through efficiency metrics alone, but through the residents' experience of time itself.