The hospital of tomorrow

A hospital is a place where people meet with their worst personal distresses. Will the main principles in planning, building of hospitals be only the speed of construction and the cheapness of the design, or will society be, after all, capable of versatile considerations and wise decisions for long-term optimal investments into quality and humanity?

MISSION: FORMING THE WHOLE Current condition erases the memory of the architect and the professor Stanko Kristl. Thus, new spatial solution must not become a landmark with Kristl’s concept: it must continue the latter instead. Thus, in time, the complex would become designed integrally and with one clear identity. \nVISION: STRATEGIC CONCEPT For the complex with such a demanding program it is more than necessary to draw phase charts with spatial premises from the very beginning. The latter will gradually aid to the coherence and the originality of the space.\nMAIN GOAL: HUMANENESS All the new moves in space must lead to the main goal which must be common. This is humaneness. \nAlas, there is a belief that everything, what the architecture contributes to more decent and pleasant appearance of hospitals, makes the construction more expensive. However, the hospital cannot be whichever and whatever house. By no means, the case must be only bare and crude assurance of the most basic standard. It must be something more… There has to be more comfort, more beauty, kindness, and warmth, simply more humanity.\nAnd on the assumption that the competent individuals would act responsibly enough: The architectural profession would get the chance to show its ethical, professional, and creative maturity and ability in forming qualitative buildings. Thus, it would most credibly express its concern for the public good. The medical profession would gain enough space where it could optimally carry out its ethical principles and follow the requirements of the modern medical doctrine. The state and the politics would strengthen the trust by such action, not only due to the sensible consumption of the taxpayers’ money but also due to the feeling that the state cares, after all, what happens to its citizens in their hardest moments. We all would gain a realistic assurance for the truly qualitative and humane hospitals, for which, surely, no one of us can be indifferent. For we should not forget, not even for a single moment, that sick people in need of hospitals are not some people out there. We are those people, even though maybe not yet today.