Hospital Studies - Venice Hospital
ARCHITECTS: Le Corbusier
DESIGNED: 1964
TOTAL FOOT PRINT AREA: XXm²
BEDS: 1,148
As opposed to the classical conception of hospitals which are generally organized vertically this was a horizontal hospital planned over three floors.
The first level on the ground is the level of connection with the city with the general services and public access.
The second level is dedicated to preventative care, specialised care and rehabilitation. It is the level of medical technology.
The third level is the zone of hospitalization and the visitors level.
The point of departure for the hospital was the room or Cellule, created at the human scale, which is part of a care unit that houses 28 patients. The unit is organized around a central space, Campiello and four circulation paths, Calle which are intended for both circulation and and inhabitation by patients. The frame work yields a horizontal hospital. The hospital stops being a static organism and acquires the flexibility to follow both the evolution of medical innovation and to accommodate the possibility of future growth. The hospitals departments are interchangeable and can be used in accordance with the hospitals needs. In the hospital the patient finds the condition of city life when entering the “Calle”, the “Campiello” and hanging gardens.
“Opening the ground floor directly onto the city, allows for a city-hospital encounter, and facilitated the transmission of medicine to the outside world.”
The hotel, the restaurant, the cinema and the shops are intended to effectively enable the integration with the city create the possibility for patients to be treated without having to be hospitalized.
DESIGNED: 1964
TOTAL FOOT PRINT AREA: XXm²
BEDS: 1,148
As opposed to the classical conception of hospitals which are generally organized vertically this was a horizontal hospital planned over three floors.
The first level on the ground is the level of connection with the city with the general services and public access.
The second level is dedicated to preventative care, specialised care and rehabilitation. It is the level of medical technology.
The third level is the zone of hospitalization and the visitors level.
The point of departure for the hospital was the room or Cellule, created at the human scale, which is part of a care unit that houses 28 patients. The unit is organized around a central space, Campiello and four circulation paths, Calle which are intended for both circulation and and inhabitation by patients. The frame work yields a horizontal hospital. The hospital stops being a static organism and acquires the flexibility to follow both the evolution of medical innovation and to accommodate the possibility of future growth. The hospitals departments are interchangeable and can be used in accordance with the hospitals needs. In the hospital the patient finds the condition of city life when entering the “Calle”, the “Campiello” and hanging gardens.
“Opening the ground floor directly onto the city, allows for a city-hospital encounter, and facilitated the transmission of medicine to the outside world.”
The hotel, the restaurant, the cinema and the shops are intended to effectively enable the integration with the city create the possibility for patients to be treated without having to be hospitalized.
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