Venice-Mestre Hospital

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Project by: Emilio Ambasz & Associates
Location: Mestre, Italy

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Venice-Mestre Hospital (Emilio Ambasz & Associates)

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Architect's statement

The project is located within roughly 20 acres of generally flat agricultural land bound by a railroad to the southeast, a major roadway to the south west and similar farmland on the remaining sides. There are no significant geographical or other manmade features on or near the site.

The Venice-Mestre Hospital is a general care hospital with 680 patient care beds. It also boasts an emergency care center and advanced surgical facilities. It is the result of a turnkey competition awarded to Astaldi, one of Italy’s two largest developers. This scheme won over a more conventional design because it was understood that a hospital should be conceived as part of the healing process. This complex of buildings is united by abundant gardens offering pleasant vistas to the patients. Patients' rooms are arranged so that every patient has direct views to plants and trees in front of his windows as well as long perspectives onto the surrounding fields. Patients at this hospital see greenery instead of other patients through their windows. The overall design is flexible enough to adapt to future care so as full care needs are reduced by advances in healthcare technology, the present 680 beds may someday be reduced to 300 as day patient care is expanded displacing private rooms.

Visitors arriving by car or train enter the hospital on a gently sloping green ramp under which all cars are parked. Visitors then enter directly into the Grand Lobby, which doubles as reception hall for day patients. It also holds various facilities for visitors like shops and cafes. As the building floors shift to one side as it rises, garden terraces are created. This stepped side of the building offers each patient room a private garden. On the other side a multi-story atrium is created by the over hangs of floors. Here, above the Grand Lobby patients rooms face onto the atrium filled with plants like in a huge greenhouse.

Details/Credits

Project: Venice-Mestre Hospital baptized Ospedale dell’Angelo
Client: Regione Veneto
Location: Mestre-Venice, Italy
Site Characteristics: Flat, rectangular-shaped site located near the entrance to a new local railroad extension, and major roadway.
Developer: Astaldi
Program: Advanced 680 Bed Clinical Hospital, offering all general hospital services, plus a Proton Beam Therapy and Treatment Centre
Construction Systems: Cast concrete frame, glass curtain wall, cladding, winter garden planting, and intelligent windows
Funding: Veneta Sanitaria Finanza di Progetto, S.P.A.
Cost: Euros 500,000,000
Project: Architect Emilio Ambasz, Hon. FAIA
Architect of Record: Studio Altieri-Alberto Altieri
Collaborators: Lucas Fornari, Luca Cerutti, Giulio Altieri, Valentina Altieri, Alessandro Melotto, Francesco Viero, Chiara Urso, Giulia Andreotti, Peter Norris, and Bradley Whitermore
A.T.I. for Project & Construction: C.O.MES. scrl Costruzione nuovo Ospedale di Mestre
Società Consortile a Responabilità Limitata: Astaldi (Mandatary), Ing. E. Mantovani (Building Company), Mattioli
Mechanical Plants: Cofathec Progetti (Project): STEAM (Consultants)
Electrical Plants: Gemmo Impianti (Project), TIFS (Consultants)
Consultants: Prof. Vitaliani, TIFS
Façade System (Glass Sail): Teleya
Frameworks (Patient area façades): Permasteelisa
Lighting: Disano
Flooring: Marazzi
Lifts: Schindler
Climate Control: Cofatech
Electrical Plants: Gemmo Impianti
Photographer: Enrico Cano (enricocano.com)