FUDING HOSPITAL

Fuding Hospital is a regional general hospital in a small Chinese city, Fuding, Fujian Province. Rather than viewing the enormous hospital as a complex building, a multi-discipline design approach treated the project as a micro-city. The result is a highly robust, permeable, efficient, legible, varied and welcoming place. An intuitive wayfinding utilises a rich variety of colour throughout the hospital, and combined with connections to terraces and gardens are uplifting and support wellbeing and healing. The hospital provides an array of extraordinary and dignified public spaces which assert the maxim that health care is a fundamental human right.

Two major elements, the gallerias, showcase an innovative approach to public space in general and hospital design in particular. Learning from the major and minor axes of Roman cities we made two large, site scaled street-like organizing gestures: the Tube and the Colonnade.