The winning proposal for the new Panama City Hospital, designed by TASH, is based on the design of ecological protections and passive bioclimatic strategies. The project is configured as a city, it is in no way a single building but a complex, keeping the capacity of total intercommunication between different buildings in a way that benefits from the different synergies, general systems, logistics, production systems, waste disposal, etc, avoiding element duplicities and improving the general performance of the complex, thus giving sense to the concept of a hospital city that is at the core of the project. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Developing as a consequence of its well-known canal, Panama enjoys a golden age, as its increasing economical investment in infrastructure development to attend to its growing population reflects. That is the reason why la Caja de Seguro Social de Panamá recently called for a competition for the construction of the biggest and most modern health care facilities in Central America, that competition has been won by TASH with a proposal of a city hospital composed of different volumes generating a complex relating interior-exterior space gaps.
