All-Ukrainian Health Protection Centre for Mothers and Children | Kiev | Ukraine | BDP

A 250 bed children’s hospital in a forest setting. A highly sustainable, naturally ventilated, building which aims to achieve exemplary status in terms of carbon emissions and is sympathetic to the site in a natural forest habitat.
The new building separates the treatment and diagnostic areas from the ward areas and buries the former block beneath an extensive reinforced concrete and landscaped ‘green’ roof so that it merges with the forest floor.

The ward blocks are inspired by the Ukrainian tradition of the ‘dacha in the woods’, re-interpreted within a modernist aesthetic.....more