A 400-bed district hospital whose functional organization derives from its role as an emergency facility in case of disaster.
Subverting the current hospital typologies of the time, the San Giovanni di Dio has a horizontal development (a few years later also theorized by Renzo Piano). It is articulated on four floors which includes a technical floor serving the underlying and overlying high-tech medical functional areas. At the entrance level, the connection system includes the possibility to tranfore its space into additional areas for hospitalization and care increasing, in the event of a disaster, the number of beds up to 30%. The connection spaces are also conceved and sized for a possible future implementation of automated systems for transporting meals, linen, waste as well as purely sanitary materials.
Building materials and architectural shapes are influenced by the traditional characteristics of the place with attention to durability and maintainability.
As a partner of the CSPE architectural studio, Giuseppe Ridolfi played the role of leading designer since the feasibility study and the schematic definition in 1990.
