Milano Today has published an article by Valeria Di Terlizzi and Marianna Gulli titled “Artificial intelligence, circadian rhythms and an 8,000-square-meter green lung: what the new Policlinico hospital of Milan will look like,” presenting the project by the consortium made up of Techint, Boeri Studio (Stefano Boeri, Gianandrea Barreca and Giovanni La Varra) and other professionals, currently under construction.
Located in the historic center of Milan, the Policlinico is one of the city’s main hospitals: a healthcare citadel enclosed within a perimeter, where various services are housed in separate buildings connected mostly by outdoor pathways. The project envisions a new pavilion divided into three large buildings—one for adults, one for children, and one for surgery.
The central body, approximately 18.5 meters high and 68 meters at its maximum depth, will host the operating rooms and labor/delivery suites. Its roof will feature a lush rooftop garden of over 7,000 square meters—about the size of a football field—just 500 meters from the Duomo. This garden will contribute to the creation of a green system connected to some of the area’s major cultural and social institutions, such as the Giardini della Guastalla, the oldest public gardens in Milan, the University of Milan, the Rotonda della Besana and its Children’s Museum (MUBA), the Società Umanitaria, the Conservatory, and the Sormani Library.
This project embraces the challenge of sustainability by seeking to establish a new relationship between living nature and architecture: the garden becomes a manifesto of the therapeutic benefits of greenery and the symbol of an idea of hospitality and care that has been active in this place for six centuries.
To read the full article: https://www.milanotoday.it/attualita/come-cambia-policlinico-nuovo-padiglione-sforza.html