The design of the CUF hospital and its open spaces was immediately born out of an ongoing dialogue between the architect and the landscape architect. It is therefore natural that the result of the landscape architecture project intervenes on the hospital’s open spaces by interpreting them as an extension of the buildings themselves. The planting matrix of the architecture expands outside the built space, where hedges and contour lines of the topography materialize and extend the planting lines of the buildings. The hedge cladding is thought of as a carpet, a labyrinth that stretches across the topography, defining spaces in whose intervals between the topiary and areas where hedges are absent are day zones (emergency spaces and reserved areas).
The design of open spaces for the CUF Hospital involves two types of intervention: on the one hand, the areas inside the hospital (accessible exclusively to hospital staff and users) and on the other hand, the area surrounding the hospital (publicly accessible and serving as a collective space).
The indoor areas consist of two covered structures: one is not accessible, but the other has been provided with a seating area designed in continuity with the hospital areas (courtyards and gardens). The proposal for the inner courtyards is related to the facade of the building and is made of concrete blocks, intersected by flower beds that are self-draining due to the fall of the soil, in order to reduce maintenance costs.
All architecture offices involved in the design:
FVA Arquitectos
