Maternity and Children Hospital for Tianjin Eco-City

The governments of China and Singapore came together to project and build a model city, scalable and replicable, environmentally respectful and socially balanced. The new city is being built for 350,000 inhabitants, in a large free space in the coastal area of ​​Tianjin, 40 kilometres from the city centre. It has been divided into five eco-districts, each with urban services and business networks to offer work, recreation and culture easily accessible from every home.

The maternity and children hospital for Tianjin Eco-City will have 55,000 m2 and 375 beds. The building is projected from a grid that allows modular spaces. Natural light and contact with the outside are fundamental in the conception of the final volume. Therefore, the proposal is a hospital formed by a platform in which diagnostic and treatment services are organized, and by a tower that houses the hospitalization rooms and the intensive care unit. The entire structure moves to one side of the site to create a large park that complements the green areas of this new district in developing. The tower, meanwhile, takes advantage of natural light and distant views.