Emergency Pavilion–Bojnice Hospital

Slovakia

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Emergency Pavilion–Bojnice Hospital

Slovakia

Firm

ARCHICO, s.r.o.

Type

Government + Health › Hospital

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2022

SIZE

1000 sqft - 3000 sqft

BUDGET

$1M - 5M

The project deals with a new urgent care pavilion with equipment of supra-regional significance. Its location within the hospital complex was chosen to achieve a seamless connection with the operating theaters, and a new access road for the plot. This position gives the new pavilion a central character for the further development of the hospital area, towards the remaining part of the plot. Regarding to the emergency, we can talk about a "healing machine" and the solution is secondary to this. An important intention was to get as much daylight as possible into the space of the pavilion and at the same time minimize shading of the existing hospital building. For this reason, the mass is perforated by the main central atrium, which is situated in such a way that patients who come for urgent admission from the existing hospital have a view of the atrium space. The roof is designed as a green and is accessible from the children's ward on the 2nd floor. In addition to its visual and relaxing nature, this solution is also intended to eliminate hard surfaces in the hospital area.
Operationally, the new pavilion is designed on the principle of separate entrances for walk-in patients and patients delivered by ERV. This concept determined a clear operational solution for the main continuous space, which forms the load-bearing operational skeleton, divided into an ambulatory part and a handling part for the entrance of the ERV. The main reception is located at the beginning of the ambulatory part and has visual contact with all parts of the emergency department. Emergency services are lined up on both sides. In the ambulatory part, there are 5 outpatient rooms, a procedure room, a plaster room, a room for waiting beds and an isolation room. The handling part is primarily a trauma care unit with supporting operations such as digital X-ray. The personnel facilities are in the separate part of the new pavilion. Covering the main entrance is a solution with a form that accentuates it compositionally, thus supporting its subconscious readability. The subconscious orientation of the patients was an important factor in influencing the layout and operational clarity of the pavilion.
The construction system was chosen as a mounted skeleton in a module of axial distances of 4.0 m / 6.0 m, with a construction height 4.4 m (allowing indoor headroom of 3.05 m). Due to the problematic hydrogeology of the subsoil, the method of foundation of the building was chosen with deep, drilled piles.