Design and well-being at IMED Levante Hospital in Benidorm

Under the guiding idea of “the environment that embraces”, the project transforms healthcare spaces into places that feel warmer, more welcoming and more personal, where architecture and interior design serve the well-being of the patient. In this context, Sellex furniture integrates naturally into the waiting areas, complementing a proposal that reinterprets the hospital through more human and emotional parameters.

IMED Levante, the first centre in the IMED group, approaches this extension as a new chapter in its history. The new building, adjoining the original volume and connected through a large entrance hall, houses some of the most representative areas of the complex. The intervention not only expands capacity — with new bedrooms, operating theatres, outpatient clinics and communal areas — but also introduces a new spatial concept aimed at enhancing the user experience.

Patients as guests

The interior design was carried out by MGA Interiorismo de Autor. As the studio explains, IMED Levante marks the origin of a hospital network that “has made innovation, technology and design its defining hallmarks”, and this extension reaffirms that “commitment to excellence and quality”.

As Belén Moratalla of MGA notes, IMED Hospitals is a healthcare network with roots in the hospitality sector and, from the outset, has sought to make patients feel like “guests”. In this sense, the studio designs for IMED “an environment that combines cutting-edge technology with human warmth”, creating spaces that “embrace the user and transform waiting rooms into welcoming and sophisticated places”, Moratalla adds.

The external entrance proposes a composition of volumes where fountains, vegetation and seating surfaces create a sculptural ensemble that acts as a gentle transition between exterior and interior. Inside, the interior design adopts a serene and refined aesthetic, with wood as a unifying thread, noble materials, textile-effect vinyl finishes and a balanced colour palette that enhances the sense of calm.

This sensitive and emotional approach to healthcare architecture has been recognised with the German Design Award 2026, granted to MGA in the Public Spaces category as Excellent Interior Architecture. The award distinguishes a proposal that moves away from conventional clinical language to create more human, serene and conscious spaces, aware of the impact of the environment on people’s well-being.

Sellex furniture as part of the architectural whole

Within this setting, Sellex pieces integrate as an essential part of the architectural ensemble. SLAM Soft and SQUARE Benches were selected as seating for the hospital’s waiting areas and installed in various configurations and capacities: 2- to 4-seater hospital benches, with backrests and upholstery. In short, benches that respond to the functional needs of the hospital’s waiting areas without compromising on comfort or aesthetic quality.

For the interior design team, the choice of SLAM Soft and SQUARE as furniture for IMED Levante Hospital reflects the intention to maintain a human scale and a high level of finishes, consistent with the rest of the project.

This is not the first time MGA has collaborated with IMED or with Sellex. The studio previously developed the interior design for IMED Colón Hospital in Valencia, where our furniture also formed part of the spatial concept. A collaboration that consolidates a shared way of understanding spaces — always centred on the people who use them.