CHU SAINT BERNADETTE
ABIDJAN COTE D'IVOIRE
The objective of the new hospital building project is to make the most of the site features by improving the functional program and its link between the different areas and their surroundings, and also optimizing the vehicular traffic and flow of people.
The idea of the design is to control the size of the building and make it similar to the urban dimensions, balancing its landscape impact in the city.
The project consists in building a low height hospital, with changes in the existing topography, a big well-lit unit where the general public and the physicians can communicate, with green spaces, evoking nature in the building area. In the facade, where pedestrian accesses are located, the large scale building is softened with two project strategies.
The project is organized as a major horizontal unit with light wells on which six two-story hospitalization volumes rest as if they were floating.
These volumes are linked to a large public circulation area (rambla); the slanting facade and the project of some smaller annex buildings give the hospital a more pleasant appearance along with the city, the technological park and the new university campus.
The project is organized into two circulation axis or streets.
The medical circulation axis, the part that is more in contact with the dual carriageway, where the entrances and exits of the parking lot and the technical logistics sector will be built. The public circulation axis, opens onto a new pedestrian walk.
In this large circulation area, all public entrances to the hospital emerge from a square.
