Alcalde Bartolomé González Healthcare center

**Article written by Carlos Mombiela Torres ** The health center is located in Parque Cuartel Huerta, currently an active urban green space in the historic center of the city of Móstoles, Madrid. Es un proyecto situado en una complicada parcela, condicionada por incógnitas procedentes del planeamiento de una ciudad en rápido crecimiento. Por ello, se planteó el edificio como un elemento de articulación que actúa de catalizador de la estructura urbana incipiente. It was built according to a project designed in 1989 by Cotelo-Puente architectural office. Executed, after the breakup of their partnership, by the architect Víctor López Cotelo in 1994 with the collaboration, in the direction of the construction, of Javier García Delgado and José Antonio Valdés. El centro de salud se encuentra situado en el Parque Cuartel Huerta, en la actualidad un activo espacio verde en el casco antiguo de la ciudad madrileña de Móstoles. It is a project located on a strange plot of land conditioned by unknowns from the planning of a rapidly growing city. With that in mind, the building was conceived as an articulating element that acts as a catalyst for the incipient urban structure. Construido según el proyecto redactado en 1989 por el estudio de arquitectura Cotelo-Puente. Ejecutado, tras la ruptura del estudio, por el arquitecto Víctor López Cotelo en 1994 con la colaboración, en lo que a la dirección de las obras se refiere, de Javier García Delgado y José Antonio Valdés. A peripheral city like Móstoles in the 80's, after a rapid disorderly growth as a result of massive emigration, suffers from unmet basic needs such as a lack health centers. After the arrival of the Socialists to the Spanish government, through INSALUD multiple facilities are promoted. This health center is one of them, located in one of the plots that occupied an old abandoned military barracks in the area of the historic center of the city.