NEW GASLINI HOSPITAL GENOA
An exterior institutional precedent by OBR illustrating how vertical fins and extensive transparent curtain walling integrate a hospital courtyard with public grounds.
- What we like about this project
- Interior greenery and silhouettes of people clearly animate the deep building sections behind the double-skin glass.
Materials
- glass
- aluminum
- steel
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- glass-curtain-wall
- vertical-louvers
- hospital-courtyard
- palm-trees
Style tags
- contemporary
- transparent
- institutional
- rationalist
Visual tags
- institutional
- healthcare
- transparent
- courtyard
- contemporary-facade
- Geometry
- Symmetrical low-rise wings frame a central courtyard, featuring floor-to-ceiling glass curtain walls modulated by vertical louver fins.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with vertical sun-shading fins and structural mullions.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or reinforced concrete column-and-slab structure with perimeter glazing.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scale public plaza at ground level flanked by multi-story institutional volumes.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffused twilight or early morning light with backlight glowing from the interior courtyard and a low horizon.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, welcoming, and open, balancing clinical transparency with soft tropical landscape elements.
- Environmental context
- Urban hospital campus plaza flanked by mature palm trees and contemporary low-rise institutional wings.
- Spatial experience
- The approach frames a sheltered, transparent courtyard bridging indoor medical spaces with open-air palm landscaping.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular vertical fin spacing establishing a rhythmic perimeter around the central courtyard.
- Style reading
- Contemporary transparent institutional architecture
- Program
- Hospital and healthcare campus
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, aluminum, steel, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- glass-curtain-wall, vertical-louvers, hospital-courtyard, palm-trees
- Style tags
- contemporary, transparent, institutional, rationalist
- Visual tags
- institutional, healthcare, transparent, courtyard, contemporary-facade
- Geometry
- Symmetrical low-rise wings frame a central courtyard, featuring floor-to-ceiling glass curtain walls modulated by vertical louver fins.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with vertical sun-shading fins and structural mullions.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or reinforced concrete column-and-slab structure with perimeter glazing.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scale public plaza at ground level flanked by multi-story institutional volumes.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffused twilight or early morning light with backlight glowing from the interior courtyard and a low horizon.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, welcoming, and open, balancing clinical transparency with soft tropical landscape elements.
- Environmental context
- Urban hospital campus plaza flanked by mature palm trees and contemporary low-rise institutional wings.
- Spatial experience
- The approach frames a sheltered, transparent courtyard bridging indoor medical spaces with open-air palm landscaping.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular vertical fin spacing establishing a rhythmic perimeter around the central courtyard.
- Style reading
- Contemporary transparent institutional architecture
- Program
- Hospital and healthcare campus
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture