How should architecture respond to the aspirations of an institution? Those of the Spanish Red Cross can be summed up as follows: EVER CLOSER TO THE PEOPLE. This project responds to the institutional manifesto with solidity, transparency, efficiency and openness. To do so, the architecture is resolved with decisions based on matter and geometry, adaptability and innovation. A cohesive architecture without hierarchies. The site, a right-angled triangle, is the end of a residential area. Its slope is gentle and continuous along its entire length and enjoys good sunlight. This geometry contains enough attributes to become the main argument of the project. The west façade is the natural area of access from the city, closed off to avoid the problems of this orientation, especially in summer. Once inside, the space multiplies and expands in a sequence of transparent rooms open to the garden that surrounds the headquarters on three sides, perceived from end to end, with nothing to hide. Considering the gradient of the perimeter streets, the headquarters is located at an intermediate level minimising the necessary earthworks. To reach the load-bearing stratum, a technical gallery through which the installations run occupies the entire footprint of the building, which will provide great versatility in the future. Structurally, it is based on a brick and lintel load-bearing wall system, introducing the idea of compression through the roof slab. This system, which resolves structure and space simultaneously, is conceived as a sequence of parallel open halls delimited by two-foot thick walls 6.60m apart and with a free height of 3.50m. The halls are connected through a distribution gallery as a covered prolongation of the street, an extension of the public space inside the building, punctuated by a sequence of six skylights regulated by means of automated opening to reinforce natural cross ventilation. The organisation of the public and private programme around this gallery ensures universal accessibility, which is developed on a single level. Photovoltaic panels are installed next to the skylights, making the roof a real energy collector. In fact, it is an adaptable infrastructure where users can decide how to use it, allowing it to evolve along with the space they inhabit, which prolongs the useful life of the project and its social and ecological relevance. It is a building for exchange, knowledge and integration, which will collaborate in the work of social responsibility developed by the institution.