LOS COBOS MEDICAL CENTER

ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITION 1ST PRIZE /// PROJECT

Healthcare Architecture

TAB Taller de Arquitectura de Bogota | Daniel Bonilla Arquitectos 2016, Bogotá, Colombia

Architect Design Leader / Documentation, Coordination y Project Development. Built / 49.600m2

TAB / Alejandro Arango /// http://tab.net.co/los-cobos-medical-center/

Los Cobos Medical Center most relevant design parameters considered were: 1. To give a more human perception onto the hospital spaces, so that it didn’t look like a hospital. 2. To enhance a good life quality for patients, acompanning parties and for medical personnel including students. 3. To promote a highly functional medical environment with high standards. 4. To incentivize internal - external relationships aided with external sights onto areas provided with vegetation.

The design was envisioned with two main elements: a platform with a tower above it, where the first one hosts the hospital facilities, while the second one allocates the hospitalization services. Furthermore, the platform was conceived as an stripped building that generates a rhythmic composition among built up and voided areas, strippes with greenery enhance the apperaence of a lightweight building where the mass got fractured.

In addition, the stripped solution also allows the volumes to be autonomous while at the same time interconnected, situation that enhances the hospital services and its inner functionality. Finally, the stripes increase the access of natural light and exterior connections, onto the otherwise heavy platform; in this manner more spaces got natural light, visual links onto the exterior and natural ventilation. ©TAB