Santa Filomena Hospital
The New Santa Filomena Hospital was to consist of a building divided into two – an Outpatient building and a Long-Term Care one. The global architectural solution ensured complete respect for the characteristics and constraints of the plot, while at the same time offering maximum functionality and operability of the building. These were to be two buildings with the respective ground floors occupying the larger space in terms of layout, as if to form common foundations. The 1st and 2nd floors are positioned over these “foundations”, forming a structure that allows for the distribution of natural light through a larger area of the façade. This aspect took the programme’s complexity to a very high level, which we used to connect with the architecture in a very specific conceptual manner.
The proposed volume, combined with the treatment of façades and the lay-out of the new buildings in the landscape, the courtyards and roofs allowed us to minimise the visual impact that this type of construction normally has and efficiently contribute to its correct placement and integration into its surroundings. In this sense, we determined an evident contemporary architectural idiom that can be found both in the formal solutions proposed and in their materialisation. The result is solid parts that have a sophisticated relationship and favour horizontality so as to minimise impact, as well as the use on the exterior of coating materials that have a good aesthetic quality/maintenance relationship.