Kommunarka Hospital with Maternity Center

The new Hospital with Maternity Center is situated in the southwest of the City of Moscow, in the newly established District of New Moscow. This multifield medical complex planned to provide with healthcare the new large city areal and to work as a clinic with educational and scientific profiles. The site of 13,5 ha occupies the part of the Kommunarka settlement where intensive development is currently taking place. The principal planning idea supports the functional zoning of the complex as a cluster of large quarters, which adopt the grid of the future residential neighborhoods. The quarters, each of which represent a separate functional block, line the main longitudinal axis from the North to the South, where the common for the overall complex functions are concentrated. This scheme allows optimizing of the transport service, which is crucial task for a medical complex, as well as organizing recreational areas inside or between some of the blocks. The eastern part of the complex is occupied by the Maternity Center, Pediatric Hospital and the Infectious Diseases Unit; the western part – by the In-Patient Treatment Unit and the Unit of morbid anatomy. The group of the axial placed servicing units begins with the dominating Ambulatory Unit, continues with the oblong Unit of Therapy and Diagnostic, where also some public facilities are located, and the Auxiliary Unit. To the south of the site there is the Emergency Unit designed as separate building. The functional integrity of the complex is provided by the numerous connection galleries over ground. The project also takes into consideration the requirement of visual isolation of the morbid anatomy block with a funeral zone. This task was solved both by planning solutions and by the landscape design means. The different purposes of the blocks are expressed through their individual façade concepts, though, united by the common architectural language. This promotes the better orientation of the hospital visitors. The project proposes the special system of visual navigation, both external, which helps the moving through the spatially complex cluster of buildings, and internal, to provide orientation inside a certain unit. According to it, each functional block is labeled with a specific colour, presenting equally on the street navigation boards as well as in the interior of the matching unit.