Maria Oliveras University Residence
2025

Main entrance signage.
Client: University of Barcelona Editions. Hospitalet City Council

The Maria Oliveras University Residence, located in the heart of the Bellvitge Campus of the University of Barcelona and a short walk from the UB's Medicine and Nursing faculties. Short-stay accommodation for professors, researchers and other members of the community, relatives of patients admitted to the Campus hospitals, corresponding community and complementary services.

Material memory. 
Approximate size: 492 cm x 248 cm
Sipaflex adhesive support “RESIDENCE UNIVERSITARIA MARIA OLIVERAS” cut with CO2 laser in 10 mm thick PMMA acrylic, smooth finish and painted with two-component polyurethane paint. 
Upper signatures University of Barcelona and l'Hospitalet City Council, cut with the same material, but 5 mm thick 
Centering with patterned vinyl template.
Color: RAL 7022

Maria Oliveras i Collellmir
Argelaguer, Garrotxa, 6 September 1910 — Barcelona, 5 November 2009). Graduated in medicine in 1938 from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, she was one of the few doctors of her generation. In the last months of the Civil War she worked at the Military Hospital of Vallcarca. With the establishment of Francoism, the new authorities did not recognize her studies after 1936, and she did not obtain her degree until 1941. After working at the Municipal Neurological Institute, she was an assistant to the neurosurgeon Adolfo Ley at the Hospital Clínic (1944) as a specialist in anesthesia. In 1947, during a stay in Oxford and London, she expanded her studies in this discipline and from 1948 to 1963 she was an anesthesiologist at the Hospital Clínic and in private centers, in which she introduced the latest advances in anesthesia. From that year until his retirement in 1980, he dedicated himself to laboratory work. The Catalan Society of Anesthesiology posthumously awarded him the Gold Medal.