| 100 Planos |
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Oporto, Portugal |
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| Pediatric Wing |
Póvoa de Varzim - first prize |
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| "The hospital was a hospital like any other in a big city. It had a sinister look, bleak, repulsive, of things that are done by necessity, an obligation ... Inside didn't fit the generous impulse of the heart, only the technique, science, the regulation. "
Domingos Monteiro - Tales and Drama, Vol, 1943
The text above was the starting point off this project.
We wore asked to build a pediatric wing on a very damage XIX century hospital.
The idea was to create a building that didn't look like a hospital, where children a adults felt as if they wore at home.
An emotional, simple and non clinic, yet efficient space, were blue a white domain, under the doctors colorful closes. |
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