Eastern Paris Grand Hospital
France, Marne-la-Vallée
Healthcare
Completed
2012
On the edge of Marne-la-Vallée, the new town to the east of Paris, on a large, perfectly flat, 12 hectare site, this project is the most perfect realisation of the “monospace” hospital concept designed by the practice. A strict grid dictates both the arrangement of the different buildings on the site (medical department, logistics, car parks, possible future extensions) and the internal organisation of the hospital. This forms a sort of checkerboard of perfectly balanced solids and voids, which lends itself perfectly to the Magic Square puzzle of putting together a hospital.
Despite its size, the hospital complex succeeds in blending into its site discreetly, its white facades almost diaphanous. “Anonymous” facades that efface the repetition of the windows, along with any technical elements. Facades that set out, were conceived and designed to express that nothing here is fixed definitively. The built form has fully integrated the possibility for future change.
Therefore, while six horizontal strata (corresponding to three levels) can be made out in the facades, it is primarily vertical lines, continuous, that are seen. White, screen-printed lines, whose frequency produces a subtle effect of resonance.
460 MCO beds and 125 psychiatric beds et logipôle
Centre Hospitalier de Marne-la-Vallée
Brunet Saunier Architecture
Gerold Zimmerli
Terrell (structure technical consultant), Arcora (facade technical consultant), Artelia (fluids technical consultant), S’pace Environnement (HEQ consultant), Talbot (construction economist), Cial (acoustics expert), Péna & Peña (landscape expert), Locomotion (Laurence Guichard) (signage designer), Philippe Harden, Golem Images (Xavier Depaule) (renderer), Alpha Volumes (model maker)
Olivier Contré (competition and studies project manager), Christian Chopin (construction project manager) and Xavier Alfonsi, Frédéric Alligorides, Valérian Amalric, Chacha Atallah, Cédric Baelde, Pascale Blin, Mauve Esteoule-Sibilli, Jürgen Fallert, François Gallet, Karine Grimaux, Estelle Grosberg, Philippe Harden, Zeina Khawam, Mathilde Le Reste, Jérôme Levifve, Ana Markovic, Monika Mittermeyer, Franck Murat, Julie Rosier, Phuong Pham Hoang, Michel Roux-Dorlut, Mounia Saïah, Nicolas Senly, Laurence Sou, Isabelle Vasseur
Cours de la Gondoire 77600 Jossigny
72 000 m²
158 M € w/o tax (2012 value)
11h45