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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Emergency Hospital 19 in Rozzano, Italy by Filippo Taidelli ArchitettoOctober 8th, 2020 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Filippo Taidelli Architetto A self-sufficient, independent healthcare facility that meets the needs of emergency architecture, but at the same time can become a permanent building. Emergency Hospital 19 is a project developed by Humanitas, with the engineering and design support of Techint and architect Filippo Taidelli for the management and containment of infectious diseases within hospital facilities. A project in which architecture, medicine and engineering contribute to defining spaces for management and care: efficient, sustainable and with a human face.  Image Courtesy © Filippo Taidelli Architetto
 Image Courtesy © Filippo Taidelli Architetto Not just a concept, but a pilot project and a new model for managing healthcare emergencies with the aim of providing quality, safety and efficiency spaces. The emergency of the last few months has highlighted the need to be always ready to combat viruses, both known and unknown. By separating patient pathways, the facility will guarantee continuity of care and assistance to patients with other pathologies, in total safety. Emergency Hospital 19 is Humanitas’s response to the need to be ready to manage the critical aspects of an emergency and normal healthcare at the same time: versatile, universally adaptable architecture – achievable in just 3 months – that starting from a modular structure can grow without constraints, be adapted to and integrated with the preexisting context and have its spaces customised.  Image Courtesy © Filippo Taidelli Architetto  Image Courtesy © Filippo Taidelli Architetto The construction of Emergency Hospital 19 next to the current Emergency Room in just eleven weeks was made possible by the generous contribution of Intesa Sanpaolo to the Istituto Clinico Humanitas and by TenarisDalmine and Fondazione Rocca to the Humanitas Foundation for Research, responsible for the scientific development of the project. Emergency Hospital 19 is the first of three facilities dedicated to emergency carecurrently being built in the North of Italy: Bergamo and Castellanza. The scenario The Covid-19 emergency has laid bare the need to rethink the structural design of hospitals, starting with the separation of patient pathways. Humanitas has worked with Techint and architect Filippo Taidelli on the formulation of a structural concept that represents a versatile, effective solution, able to support, temporarily or permanently, the activities of hospitals. A solution capable of responding in a modular and flexible way, quantity- and qualitywise, to a variable number of patients and different types of intended use (intensive care/patient care) depending on the healthcare emergency scenario.  Image Courtesy © Filippo Taidelli Architetto  Image Courtesy © Filippo Taidelli Architetto The humanised hospital and therapy as beauty Filippo Taidelli has pursued the development of a pivotal theme of the path undertaken in recent years by Humanitas in the humanisation of spaces: the project for Emergency Hospital 19 is based on the need to put man, a patient in today’s hospital, at the centre. The humanisation of the health care environment becomes the means whereby the patient is helped to regain possession of the healing process. The architecture enhances emotional, intellectual and sensorial factors, inserting elements such as family affections, nature and metropolitan stimuli. The environment must become a resource for supporting the healing process: many factors related to the architectural dimension of the environment can have a positive influence on the healing process. Wards and intensive therapy units have large windows that allow the patient to benefit from natural light and a view of the landscape. The rooms are defended against the risk of glaring sun or overheating by the presence of Venetian blinds and silkscreens beyond the window.  Image Courtesy © Filippo Taidelli Architetto  Image Courtesy © Filippo Taidelli Architetto In an emergency situation, the patient can often spend more than 10 days in a hospital ward, in small spaces that sometimes do not allow the presence of other furniture except a bed – which becomes a couch, dining room and sofa. In this habitat, the finish of the inner enclosure helps to infuse serenity and tranquillity into the patient. In the Emergency Hospital 19 project the multicoloured pastel striped wallpaper in rooms and corridors breaks up the monotony and continuity between spaces, as if projecting the patient into a carefree open-air atmosphere and helping him to feel less lost or oppressed. The floors, which simulate a seamless wooden deck, and the warm light fixtures (3000 k) also help to create a more enveloping atmosphere. These devices are designed to recreate domestic sensations of serenity and well-being, supporting the patient’s delicate psychophysical balance. The relationship with nature and greenery becomes an essential component of architectural design, representing not only an element mitigating the climate of the enclosure, but also a therapeutic tool. Outdoor spaces thus become an opportunity to incentivise the symbolic value of greenery.  Image Courtesy © Filippo Taidelli Architetto  Image Courtesy © Filippo Taidelli Architetto The sustainable hospital Emergency Hospital 19 responds to an extended sustainability principle: technical, social, energetic and environmental. The basic module has been developed to be energetically autonomous, as well as adaptable to latitude and context. The building enclosure has been designed to reduce incoming thermal energy by up to 50%, thus reducing the energy required by the interior air conditioning. The more or less breathable double skin allows the building to adapt to different climatic conditions by making the most of the resources available on site (sun, wind, vegetation, etc. …) to contain energy losses in winter and control overheating in summer. Therapeutic green Green areas are an essential part of the project: they contribute to mitigating the climate of the enclosure, become an integral part of flow management – in a context where social distancing is a preventive measure – and a therapeutic instrument for patients and healthcare workers.  Image Courtesy © Filippo Taidelli Architetto  Image Courtesy © Filippo Taidelli Architetto A visual backdrop for patients, the greenery contributes to the healing process and changes in vegetation mark the passage of time. The patio area is the centre around which the operating and inpatient facilities are developed: an area, conceived as a small cloister of a Renaissance monastery, with single seats at safe distances offering patients semi-secluded green areas. An oasis of relaxation in a protected environment, surrounded by nature and its aromas, for a short break in the open air, where even the medical staff can temporarily get away from the atmosphere of the hospital ward and relieve their stress. Facade cladding and architectural integration The external facade of Emergency Hospital 19 has a second modular skin, conceived as a \”dress\” adaptable to the climatic and image conditions required by the particular geographical context. The façade also acts as a climate mitigator of the enclosure, to contain solar radiation, increase user comfort and reduce the energy required for the operation of air conditioning systems.  Image Courtesy © Filippo Taidelli Architetto  Image Courtesy © Filippo Taidelli Architetto The second skin that covers the basic module is adaptable to different formal requirements and consists of two main elements: skin and edges. The skin is a sequence of vertical slats in coloured aluminium which, with the changing point of view, modify the perception of the elevation, creating kinetic effects like those of Rafael Soto’s dynamic installations. Slat colours can be combined in a variety of percentages on the different facades: colours in the same shades but with variable intensity make the visual impact on the volumes dynamic and changeable. Emergency Hospital 19 is a versatile, universally adaptable architecture of high technical-formal and scientific content, designed to respond quickly to both temporary emergency situations and permanent extensions. The project takes in all key features for the hospital of the future, in a limited space that can be developed quickly.  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