Hospital de MenongueFacility

The new provincial hospital of Menongue answers a need for providing the region of Cuando Cubango with a high-tech and modern hospital, with far-reaching services and a 2,000-bed capacity. To do so, a modulated and functional architectural design has been proposed. The structural reticle guarantees maximum functioning flexibility. It also makes the adaptation to the continuous changes to which the health system is exposed without altering its configuration or functioning possible. It can be easily expanded thanks to the strategic disposition of the building on the terrain. Housing for the doctors who work in the hospital are placed at the end of the parcel. They are sufficiently isolated to let the personnel rest. The disposition of the external road and the parking lots allow for easy and comfortable access to the large functional areas. The hospital modulation makes the design of a strictly contemporary hospital possible. In order to do so, it incorporates all of the most basic attributes. By means of avoiding formal approximations, the projected building assumes the value of the relationship with the environment (as a pleasant conversation), the major attribute of autochthonous construction tradition.