2江阴市新中医院
上海
A grand healthcare interior precedent demonstrating how a central circular atrium creates visual connectivity and clear orientation across multiple institutional levels.
- What we like about this project
- The floor features a circular inlay pattern that precisely echoes the large circular opening overhead.
Materials
- white-plaster
- wood-veneer
- polished-stone
- glass
- painted-steel
Visual identifiers
- circular-atrium
- multi-tier-facade
- central-void
- wayfinding-signage
Style tags
- contemporary
- institutional
- minimalist
Visual tags
- atrium
- healthcare
- public-space
- circular-geometry
- wayfinding
- multi-story
- Geometry
- A vast multi-story cylindrical atrium featuring a large circular floor opening that mirrors an overhead ring, surrounded by evenly spaced vertical window bays on stacked tiers.
- Facade system
- Interior curtain wall and punched window rhythm with wooden framing details along circular galleries.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete columns and floor plates with a large clear-span roof structure above the light well.
- Spatial scale
- Monumental scale; a multi-story public atrium with large reception desks and wide circulation zones.
- Lighting
- Bright, evenly diffused artificial and natural daylight washing the curved white interior walls and reflected off polished light floor tiles.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, luminous, and orderly, providing a reassuring environment for a public healthcare hub.
- Environmental context
- Large public healthcare facility interior in Shanghai.
- Spatial experience
- The visitor enters a vast, light-filled central node that establishes immediate visual connection across multiple floor levels and aids intuitive wayfinding.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical window modules arranged in concentric horizontal tiers around the circular void.
- Style reading
- Contemporary institutional interior architecture
- Program
- Hospital central lobby and reception atrium
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior
- Materials
- white-plaster, wood-veneer, polished-stone, glass, painted-steel
- Visual identifiers
- circular-atrium, multi-tier-facade, central-void, wayfinding-signage
- Style tags
- contemporary, institutional, minimalist
- Visual tags
- atrium, healthcare, public-space, circular-geometry, wayfinding, multi-story
- Geometry
- A vast multi-story cylindrical atrium featuring a large circular floor opening that mirrors an overhead ring, surrounded by evenly spaced vertical window bays on stacked tiers.
- Facade system
- Interior curtain wall and punched window rhythm with wooden framing details along circular galleries.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete columns and floor plates with a large clear-span roof structure above the light well.
- Spatial scale
- Monumental scale; a multi-story public atrium with large reception desks and wide circulation zones.
- Lighting
- Bright, evenly diffused artificial and natural daylight washing the curved white interior walls and reflected off polished light floor tiles.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, luminous, and orderly, providing a reassuring environment for a public healthcare hub.
- Environmental context
- Large public healthcare facility interior in Shanghai.
- Spatial experience
- The visitor enters a vast, light-filled central node that establishes immediate visual connection across multiple floor levels and aids intuitive wayfinding.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical window modules arranged in concentric horizontal tiers around the circular void.
- Style reading
- Contemporary institutional interior architecture
- Program
- Hospital central lobby and reception atrium
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior