Modernization of Liberec Hospital
team:
Norbert Obršál, Jan Kubát, David Helešic, Linda Obršálová, Václav Mihola
client:
Liberec Regional Hospital
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About the Hospital Modernization
The design perceives the hospital as an integral part of the city. Its compact form derives from its surroundings. The urban structure and topography. The opening of the block defines new public spaces around the main entrances. These flow into the interior hall, which becomes the central point of a rationally organized operation.
The hospital design, unlike peripheral pavilion concepts, creates no residual spaces in the city. The hospital block gradually steps down in height together with the slope and complies with height limits. The building height is always between three and five floors. The only exception is the solitary building of the Center of Laboratory Medicine with six floors. Separated laboratories accentuate the approach from the city.
The further development of the hospital is very difficult to predict. The CUM building is therefore designed so that it can be developed in any direction. Ideally, however, in the future, the construction of the southern wing could follow the first stage at the location of the current cafeteria, where the remaining operating rooms would be placed, in the volume of the building connected to the central sterilization operations. This part of the building would be dedicated to operations that require quiet and silence. Not so much the northern part of the area, which would be the next stage - here, on the site of the current pavilions A, C and G, departments for the daily admission of short-term patients would be built.