© JOURDA Architectes
Hospital Centre (Douai, France)
 
The reflection gave priority to providing solutions to functional issues and to researching a clear programmatic and circulation diagram. The architectural proposal was established following this principal, taking into account three essential factors: maximum flexibility, focalisation on the patient and the double face of medicine today (technology and humanity). The project is based on two important principals: vertical stratification and horizontal hierarchy. The vertical stratification rests on the identification of the three separate “worlds” which constitute the hospital: spaces accessible to the public and to services; world in direct communication with the city the technical level; world of technology and medical procedures the world of patients This layering is witness to the hospital’s different programmatic elements and users. Furthermore it reflects the principal characteristics of medicine today, which places the patient at the centre of the medical world, and allows advanced technology, efficient and congenial workspaces, as well as comfortable, harmonious and safe living spaces to coexist. The horizontal hierarchy places the public building to the west, private to the east, just as with the external spaces on the ground floor. The architectural language of the hospital reflects this notion of stratification. It expresses the superimposition of the three worlds while translating particular environmental intentions.
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