Brunet Saunier & Associés | Sainte-Musse Hospital

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Despite being located at the eastern entrance of the city, on the edge of a 1970s neighborhood and an industrial zone, the Sainte-Musse hospital adopts a strategy of “spreading out” to better blend into its environment. It thus stretches out a long urban facade composed of thick, continuous horizontal lines of concrete serving as sunshades and, for the rooms, as cinematic framings of the landscape.

With its white color, it presents an institutional character. Neutral and enduring. Economically reasonable. The hospital’s architecture refers to the modern palaces of the Mediterranean coast, places of luxury, calm, and pleasure, vacation spots where one comes to seek rest but also inspiration, thanks to the exceptional chromatic and luminous intensity of the South.

The MCO building, the psychiatry “square,” and the administrative building are all given a common address by a large linear plaza, a generous tree-lined mall where terraces and waiting areas develop, in the manner of Barcelona’s Ramblas. It constitutes a place of transition between the city and the hospital, a hospital “threshold” that conveys the ideas of dignity and civility, and diffuses a feeling of comfort and reassurance.

Localisation

France, Toulon

Type

Healthcare

Statut

Completed

Année

2011

Program

Medicine, Surgery and Obstetric, psychiatry, administrative building.
Capacity: 850 beds and places

Client

Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Toulon-La Seyne-sur-Mer, DDE du Var (assistance à la maîtrise d’ouvrage)

Procedure

Public Procurement (MOP law)

Lead architect

Brunet Saunier & Associés

Partner architect

Unite d’architecture – UA

Hospital consultant

Gerold Zimmerli

Partners team

Sirr Ingénierie (technical services consultant et construction economist), Ceef (facade technical consultant), Logik (OPC), Pelagos (helipad consultant), Delphi (acoustics expert), Péna & Peña (landscape expert), Philippe Harden, Artefactory (renderer), Alpha Volumes (model maker)

BSA team

Olivier Contré (project manager) and Frédéric Alligorides, Abdelhafid Bairi, Yvan Bourgeois, Arnaud Bruyelle, Philippe Carol, Fiona Copstick, Stéphane Cachat, Mauve Esteoule-Sibilli, Jürgen Fallert, François Gallet, Estelle Grosberg, Margaret Iragui-Lejeune, Guillaume Jullian, Michal Bartek Kozielewsky, Cyrille Lambin, Philippe Ledoux, Jérôme Levifve, Stéfanie Matthys, Monika Mittermeyer, Franck Murat, Carin Nilsson-Demay, Laurent Noël, Camille Nourrit, Phuong Pham Hoang, Isabelle Redon, Julie Rosier, Michel Roux-Dorlut, Mounia Saïah, Maria ScicoloneIngala, Nicolas Senly, Isabelle Vasseur, Lydie Vega-Sanchez

Net Floor Area

85 000 sq. m

Construction cost

207 M€ w/o tax (2011 value)

Photographer

Michel Denancé