Since the second half of twentieth century up today, the architectural design of hospital buildings has faced great changes. These changes are coming from vital role that these types of buildings will play in city context and society as urban features.

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Architects: New Wave Architecture

Location: Rasht, Gilan Province, Iran

Lead Architects: Lida Almassian, Shahin Heidari

Area: 30000.0 sqm

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Parham Taghioff

Client: Teb Zist Bonyan

Contractor: Latoum co

© Parham Taghioff

Since the second half of twentieth century up today, the architectural design of hospital buildings has faced great changes. These changes are coming from vital role that these types of buildings will play in city context and society as urban features.
© Parham Taghioff

Wide Surveys on typology of current health centers in IRAN leads to such disappointed results, for years these buildings have been built on base of repetition of some pre-designed blocks, which are covered with a shell around as building and finalized as building of hospital. So complicated network of path are generated which mostly are very narrow and dark corridors that arouse sense of fear and stress in users more and more, hence this is the time to redef...