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Family Center “Anna Meyer“

Florence - 2019

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The Family Center represents a true revolution in Meyer's hospitality model

The project involves the construction of a small independent pavilion within the park of the Meyer pediatric hospital in Florence used as a reception center for families.


The structure should contain and represent a single point of access and reference for the family. An organizational method that brings together a series of activities and professional figures: social workers, psychologists, nurses, voluntary associations, URP (Public Recording Office).


The idea of ​​a structure located in the park surrounding the hospital and strategically housed in the immediate vicinity of the entrance responds to the lack of space in the hospital structure, especially in a phase of expansion from a clinical, healthcare, organizational and functional point of view.


The pavilion appears as a building of limited dimensions (about 500m2) with a regular square plan, distributed in a ring around a central courtyard. It is located completely above ground, or rather: slightly raised compared to the ground level, and is accessed via a slightly sloping path that leads to the main entrance and via three external stairs that cover the small difference in height between the perimeter balcony and the park.


The areas in the center of the facades, largely glazed, host the most public functions: entrance and orientation, waiting areas, meeting room; the areas located at the corners of the plan house the offices.


The Family Center represents a true revolution in Meyer's hospitality model. The new model puts the family and its needs at the center, facilitating all those aspects that have a significant impact on the care experience that the child/adolescent and his parents have during hospitalization.


The Meyer Foundation is committed to supporting hospitality services for the families of young patients admitted to the hospital with a network of facilities that provides 25 mini-apartments and 38 accommodations in shelters, all located near the Meyer Children's Hospital, where the most indigent and difficult families can find accommodation.

Additional information and dimensional data

Place

Florence


Typology

Sanità


Year

2016 - 2019


Size

Surface: 500 m2


Client

Fondazione Meyer


Services performed

Technical Economic Feasibility Project, Design Development Project, Final Design Phase


Collaborations

aei progetti S.r.l.
ZI Zeta Ingegneria
Studio Ing. Giampiero Mancini e Associati