A pioneering and innovative establishment: the Hepatobiliary Centre at the Paul Brousse Hospital APHP.
When high standards and medical excellence, innovation and a vision of the future compel and stimulate us: Egis -alors OTH had the opportunity to work with architect Claude Vasconi as part of a design team working on a visionary project of excellence initiated by Professor Henri Bismuth.
There are sometimes opportunities and encounters that mark a turning point in our design methods, our choice of approach, the demands we make of ourselves, the lessons we learn and their impact on subsequent projects.
The opportunity was the project to build a centre of excellence dedicated to an organ, the liver, an innovative, technical building serving a pioneering multidisciplinary organisation.
It was a meeting of minds between two leading figures in their respective fields of practice and expertise, Professor Henri Bismuth and architect Claude Vasconi.
The result is a functional, architectural and technical benchmark, the fruit of dialogue between the teams led by Professor Bismuth and the design team, which 30 years after its opening remains a benchmark centre in France and Europe.
The design was obviously tailor-made, with a deliberately compact building to encourage interdisciplinarity, exchanges between all the players involved and the integration of teaching and research. The technical facilities are grouped together on one floor between the consultations, research and in-patient departments, in a configuration that will enable them to evolve while remaining as free as possible from structural and technical constraints. The nave is designed to connect all the sectors accessible to patients and to provide a buffer space for the comfort of patients and their carers.
This haute couture work, requiring fully integrated architecture and engineering in the service of functionality and scalability, benefited 4 years later from the Nouvel Hôpital Civil de Strasbourg, another hospital collaboration between Egis (IOSIS) and Claude Vasconi.
