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Images: François-Xavier Da Cunha Leal
TAVERNY MEDICAL CENTER
HARMONIOUSLY INTEGRATED IN THE SURROUNDING URBAN ENVIRONMENT
The project of a health centre started in July 2016 by Taverny city
council aims at gathering in one place a multidisciplinary team of
medical doctors and health-care professionals so as to make up
for the lack of practitioners outside major cities. Since it is located
in a fragmented townscape and bordered by a motorway, we have
sought to design a building constructed around a central patio,
with an interior well-adapted to care facilities and reminiscent of
ancient cloisters.
Its overall size and shape indicate our aim to integrate it
harmoniously in the surrounding urban environment, with
balanced proportions between filled and empty spaces, mineral
and vegetal components, buildings and green areas. The
programme involves a functional organization of the space. The
square shape allows an arrangement of areas of graded privacy
around a communal area.
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