National Medical Center, Central Infectious Disease Hospital

  • Completion : 2023 Design 3rd place
  • Location : Seoul, Korea
  • GFA : 193,326.65㎡
  • Scale : B4, 16FL

On a site with many urban and historical changes and stories, the National Public Healthcare Complex has gone beyond the unilateral planning of a mere gigantic complex to include the diversified values of the past, present, and future in three dimensions.

As a public medical facility, it embraces its public character and leading role in socio-cultural development and convergence. It provides guidelines for a network of public pedestrian spaces, an extended network of parks, and a cultural network that connects the past and future, promoting an urban and historically respectful and evolutionary development.

The National Central Hospital, the National Trauma Center, and the National Infectious Diseases Hospital are integrated with the concepts of connection, independence, and evolution to form a win-win national public healthcare cluster. This provides a flexible space for convergent operation, expansion, and growth that can cope with various situations. In addition, for the close cooperation of the three hospitals, the three concepts of ’BIG Flatform, BIG Research Cluster, and BIG Void’ were used to form a future-oriented ’Collaborative Flatform’ that demonstrates the infinite scalability of a large hospital building system, thus strengthening its future status as a central institution.

A healthier future was presented through the coexistence and coordination of eco-friendly spaces. The public park, which was extended to the Training Center Park, expanded the public space of the hospital, which was only closed, and established an eco-friendly open public space of architecture and nature through the three-dimensional courtyard and void space in the building.

The plan proposes a “platform for coexistence and healing” that realizes social and public values in response to the needs of the times.

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