Nursing Home for Senior Citizens

Nursing Home for Senior Citizens

Labin, 2010

The future Nursing Home for Senior Citizens is planned in the northern part of the city of Labin. The site area is delineated by a local road on the east side and the green park area that commands western orientation. The frame for conceiving every new step is the time sequence in the development of the settlement, a series of urban changes, and the old town matrix of Podlabin to Čekade and New Labin at Kature.

Basic elements of the new structure

- zone of residential units for mobile tenants

A series of single rooms is structurally organized down the slope, respecting the existing configuration of the terrain as much as possible. The basic characteristic of this zone is small scale, blocks, a sum of enclaves hosting future tenants in the manner of a neighbourhood. The individual, personalized space is adaptable in its organization (depending on individual wishes and habits of users), but also in the spatial dimension. Direct contact with the terrain is a logically imposed characteristic. A stroll to the main building between the bungalows, but also through the heated connecting corridor is part of life and physical activity of senior citizens. A three-directional illumination (from two sides through elevations and the third through the roof) enables quick and efficient airing, but it also provides the residential area with a new dimension – the house turns into a park, and the park into a house.

- the central zone of the transversal slice

This mass divides the parcel in service and general use area. Apart from all common service facilities, organized along the northern elevation, the intensive care units are placed here as well, with obligatory southern orientation. This organization enables a view of the old town, good insolation, and unhindered access for and care of medical staff. Rational simplicity is characteristic of that zone.

Budući dom za starije osobe zamišljen je u sjevernom dijelu naselja Labin. Površina je definirana obodnom lokalnom prometnicom na istočnoj strani, te zelenom zonom parka koja predstavlja zapadnu orijentaciju. Vremenski slijed razvoja naselja, niz urbanih događaja, matrica staroga grada, Podlabina, preko Čekadi do novog Labina na Katurama predstavljaju okvir razmišljanja za svaki nov korak.

Osnovni elementi nove strukture:

-zona smještajnih jedinica za pokretne stanare

Niz pojedinačnih soba organiziran je strukturalno niz padinu, maksimalno poštujući zatečenu konfiguraciju terena. Osnovna karakteristika ove zone je malo mjerilo, naselja, zbroj enklava koje udomljuju buduće stanare na način stambenog susjedstva. Individualan, personaliziran prostor prilagodljiv je orijentacijom (ovisno o pojedinačnim željama i navikama korisnika), ali i prostornom dimenzijom. Neposredan kontakt s terenom odlika je koja se nameće. Šetnja između kućica, ali i toplom vezom do glavne zgrade, dio je života i tjelesne aktivnosti ljudi treće životne dobi. Trostrano osvjetljenje (dvostrano preko pročelja i trećom stranom preko krova) omogućuje brzo i kvalitetno provjetravanje, ali i životnom prostoru daje novu dimenziju – kuća se pretvara u park, a park u kuću.

- centralna zona poprečne lamele

Taj volumen dijeli parcelu na dva dijela – servisni i uporabni. Osim svih zajedničkih servisnih sadržaja, koji su organizirani uzduž sjevernog pročelja, ovdje su s obveznom južnom orijentacijom smještene i jedinice za pojačanu skrb štićenika. Takvom organizacijom osiguran je kvalitetan pogled prema starom gradu, dobra osunčanost, te jednostavan pristup i njega medicinskog osoblja. Racionalna jednostavnost obilježje je te zone.

Nursing Home for Senior Citizens

competition 
2010
Address: 
Labin
Team:
Igor Franić
Tajana Derenčinović Jelčić
Andreja Dodig
Petar Reić
Simona Sović Štos
Zorana Zdjelar

Client: City of Labin

Gross surface area: 3 882 m2

Site area: 8 321 m2