Saint-Ouen Grand Paris-Nord University Hospital, an icon of 21st-century healthcare, is a cutting-edge, human-centered, and high-performing medical infrastructure, ideally designed to meet the growing needs of the Paris metropolitan area in the coming decades.

Generously open to the city, the hospital offers a clear and identifiable volume, which stands as a landmark in the urban space. The public space extends to its threshold, offering a breath of fresh air in the urban fabric, places for meeting, exchange, and tranquility. This visual and physical proximity to abundant flora, the possibility of following the course of the sun and the seasons, offers hospital residents a formidable allegory of the healing process. This setting, for residence, work, or simply a visit, places well-being at the heart of the care experience. The hospital’s roof is a world apart. Planted with numerous plant species and protected from the nuisances of the street, the garden it hosts is a refuge open to all, caregivers, visitors, and city dwellers. Accessible from the hospital as well as from the city, it is a promontory that overlooks the surrounding buildings and provides a clear view of the horizon.

The open and urban hospital is also a demanding healing machine, meeting the levels of performance, adaptability, and efficiency to which it aspires. The superposition of equipped, neutral, reversible, and abundantly naturally lit plateaus allows for a flexible and evolving spatial organization of services. This radical design focuses its efforts on the adaptability of healthcare equipment, both in the short and long term.

Building a hospital today means realizing change, and the Grand Paris-Nord University Hospital is its emblematic place. Staff, patients and their condition, techniques and needs are constantly evolving. Movement and the unexpected are the only invariants to be taken into account. Designed to perpetuate the inconstant, Saint-Ouen Grand Paris-Nord University Hospital displays flexibility as a philosophy by integrating itself sustainably into the city without ever ceasing to mutate or adapt.