

Leap that distinguishes the hospital of the twentieth century from that of the Third Millennium
The "Vittore Buzzi" hospital was founded as a children's hospital at the beginning of the 20th century and is today one of the main city references for pediatric and obstetric-gynecological care.
The hospital is a center of excellence in some clinical sectors which, in addition to being a point of reference for the city, serves an extra-regional catchment area and represents the second birth point in the capital and the third in Lombardy.
The project proposes an increase in the volume of the Buzzi Presidium, which aims to resolve some critical issues and shortcomings affecting the emergency/urgency areas, with particular reference to the Pediatric Emergency Room and Pediatric Intensive Care, Operating Unit, Pathology and Intensive Care neonatal, so that it can constitute a modern highly specialized hospital capable of responding to the needs of assistance in the maternal-infant area. The area subject to work is located in the Sempione-Fiera zone, it is part of a highly urbanized context within the current area owned by the Clinical Institutes of Advanced Studies.
The new five floor volume must be able to integrate on an urban, compositional and functional level with the existing buildings and fulfill the role of a new centrality capable of redeveloping the entire campus.
The New Buzzi project was conceived to favor that qualitative leap that distinguishes the hospital of the twentieth century from that of the Third Millennium, a hospital that combines the necessary innovation with the indispensable added value of human, civic, urban and social value.
The design proposal therefore pays great attention not only to the relationship with the pre-existing structures, i.e. to environmental compatibility, but also to the correct communication that the new architecture establishes with the city, users, and citizens. The Presidium is located in a strategic area from an urban planning point of view, north-west of the city center in a highly urbanized context which the Plan envisions strengthening with the expansion of the underground line and a new stop near the hospital .
On an architectural scale, the solution seeks an equivalent harmony between the constraints and specificities of the place and the communication of a contemporary and innovative aesthetic. The choice of advanced technological systems such as the ventilated facade and materials such as glass, stoneware and perforated sheet metal, creates a dynamic modulation of the façades which maintain the traditional material colors and at the same time propose an updated reinterpretation of the needs of new buildings healthcare. Architecture is therefore expressed with contemporary facade technologies, however declined with textures and materiality that integrate harmoniously in a heterogeneous context.
Additional information and dimensional data
Place
Milan
Typology
Ospedale
Year
2015 - 2015
Size
Healthcare spaces: 19,000 m2
Client
Infrastrutture Lombarde s.p.a. for the ICP hospital-clinical training institutes in Milan
Services performed
Design Development Project
Collaborations
TEKNE S.p.A
Studio Castiglione & Nardi Architetti Associati
aei progetti S.r.l.
