design for the children

The pediatric clinic is developed as a “linear village” that coagulates along a crossing path.
The project is defined by several elements: the isolated volumes for the clinical functions, a double wall equipped for clinical services, both covered by a rising roof canopy. The wall is the limit between the medical and family areas.
The space in between the solid elements, as well as streets and square in a village, allows the circulation and the intersection of patients and medical fluxes. These squares, three for the phase one, have been thought as meeting point, waiting, teaching and recreational areas.
The first square is the waiting area for the parents at the entrance.
The second one is a central jointing point and it is an open space that can be used for HIV teaching area too.
The third one is on the last part of the clinic, open toward the landscape, it is the teaching and recreational area.
On phase two, or in a different configuration of the building, it will be possible to multiply and to modify these spaces.
The paths, on first phase, are mainly horizontal, it is possible to climb on the top of volumes, with wooden stairs, and use them as outdoor covered rooms. On phase two, the accessibility grows up with mini-lift too, if it will be economically possible, and with bridges suspended on the roof, between the volumes. Clinical rooms will be created on volumes roof using light panels.
project team: stefania papitto