The contest for the architectural concept of the hospital with maternity center was held in the frame of the municipal target investment program for the period of 2016-2018, which was approved by Moscow Government in 2015. After winning the competition, the TPO Reserve began elaboration of the project for further building.
The new multifield medical complex is situated to the southwest of the City of Moscow, in the newly established district of New Moscow. It is planned to provide with healthcare the new large city areal and to work as a clinic with educational and scientific profiles.
The site of 13,5 ha occupies the part of the Kommunarka settlement where intensive development is currently taking place. The principal planning idea supports the functional zoning of the complex as a cluster of large quarters, which adopt the grid of the future residential neighborhoods. The quarters, each of which represent a separate functional block, line the main longitudinal axis from the north to the south, where the common for the overall complex functions are concentrated. This scheme allows optimizing of the transport service, which is crucial task for a medical complex, as well as organizing recreational areas inside or between some of the blocks.
The group of the axial placed servicing units begins with the dominating ambulatory unit, continues with the oblong unit of therapy and diagnostic, where also some public facilities are located, and the auxiliary unit. There is also the emergency unit designed as separate building on the central axis. The eastern part of the complex is occupied by the pediatric hospital, the maternity center, and the infectious diseases unit; the western part – by the in-patient treatment unit and the morbid anatomy unit. The functional integrity of the complex is provided by numerous above-ground connection galleries. The project also takes into consideration the requirement of visual isolation of the morbid anatomy block with a funeral zone. This task was solved both by planning solutions and by the landscape design means.
The different purposes of the blocks are expressed through their individual façade concepts, though, united by the common architectural language. This promotes the better orientation of the hospital visitors. The project proposes the special system of visual navigation, both external, which helps to move through the spatially complex cluster, and internal, to provide orientation inside a certain unit. According to it, each functional block is labeled with a specific colour, presenting equally on the street navigation boards as well as in the interior of the matching unit.
