PAVILION OF CARDIOLOGY OF THE WOLSKI HOSPITAL IN WARSAW

CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW CARDIOLOGY PAVILION WITH AN ENDOSCOPIC LABORATORY OF THE WOLSKI HOSPITAL IN WARSAW

Date: 2014
Area: 2575 m²
Stage: building completed
Project: CH2 architects & NAAN architects & HDR TMK Planungsgesellschaft mbH

Competition design of the concept of building a new internal medicine pavilion of the Dr. Anna Gostyńska Wolski Hospital in Warsaw at ul. Kasprzaka 17. The new ward is part of the expansion of the municipal hospital complex providing health care to over 260,000 residents of Warsaw, mainly in the Wola and Bemowo districts. A hospital complex with a rich history dating back to the end of the 19th century, when the hospital began its activity as the Old Ozakonów Hospital in Warsaw, a Jewish medical institution considered for many years to be one of the most modern hospitals in Poland.The history of the hospital complex is reflected in the different typology and formal language of the neighboring buildings. Materially, existing buildings retain consistency: masonry, plastered and painted. Designed new pavilion with neutral architecture and simple geometric forms, not competing with historical forms of adjacent objects. Materially, the building fits into the context: a plastered façade, in a bright color with a dark window joinery. Urbanly, the object is located on the axis of the main entrance to the hospital grounds, the closure of the pedestrian course is a two-storey entrance hall of the designed facility. To facilitate the direct identification of the building, a scaled office number of the branch is designed in the entry area.