Ricerc@Sapienza

In contemporary society, the hospital loses its hegemony as architecture intended for the care of the sick to make room for an articulated series of decentralized healthcare facilities, often smaller in size and integrated by a series of other services.
Some of these simple concepts, often pursued throughout history, have been lost with the emergence of rationalism and
modernist efficiency. Contemporary medical concepts have therefore again expanded the concept of health to a more general
condition of well-being, introducing the importance of prevention to avoid incurring pathologies. The evolutionary nature of the
approach to care, which has been increasingly faster in recent years, makes the rigid classifications and typological prescriptions
of the past inadequate, as well as the exclusively efficient attitude of modernity, favoring a more flexible, adaptive and
available approach to accommodate further transformations. New healthcare architectures have completely lost the need
to be places separate from the city. Therefore, it is no longer a matter of imagining autonomous fragments of city-gardens or
hermitages isolated on the heights; a demand for diversified structures capable of accommodating the needs of the emerging
sector dedicated to “taking care” of the patient is growing, a demedicalized area, a type of “hybrid building” where traditional
clinical institutions merge with a set of other functions.