Sainte-Musse Hospital
France, Toulon
Healthcare
Completed
2011
Although located on the eastern edge of the town, on the edge of a 1970s neighbourhood and an industrial zone, the Sainte-Musse hospital is a project of urbanism, choosing to spread out in order to blend successfully into its surroundings. It stretches out a long urban facade comprised of wide horizontal continuous lines in concrete constituting solar shading, and cinematographic frames on to the landscape for the rooms.
Its white colour gives an institutional feel. Neutral and durable. Economically rational. The hospital’s architecture pays reference to the modern luxury hotels on the Mediterranean, places of comfort, calm and pleasure, holiday destinations where people come for rest but also for inspiration, owing to the exceptional intensity of colour and light in the south.
The medical department building, the psychiatrics “square” and the administration building all share an entrance via a large linear area, a broad, tree-lined avenue where terraces and seating areas have been made, like the Ramblas in Barcelona. This forms a transition space between town and hospital, a hospital “threshold” that expresses ideas of dignity and civility, conveying feelings of comfort and reassurance.
850 beds
Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Toulon-La Seyne-sur-Mer, DDE du Var (assistance à la maîtrise d’ouvrage)
Brunet Saunier Architecture
Gerold Zimmerli
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)
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
Unite d’architecture – UA
54 Rue Henri Sainte-Claire Deville 83100 Toulon
85 000 m²
207 M € w/o tax (2011 value)
Michel Denancé