Architects: BORDÁCS László, ERDŐSS Annamária
The building had stood unfinished for many years, then it has been redesigned with consideration to the existing structure, but meeting present-day requirements in layout and comfort.
Development of the hospital began in the late 1970s, designed by architect Annamária Erdőss. After the infrastructural developments (boiler house, workshops, warehouses, laundry, kitchen), the construction of a new hotel building, as well as an operating theatre unit, a diagnostics department and an outpatients department began in the early 1980s, according to the trend of that time. The latter two buildings had been completed, but only the structural framework and the front facade of the hotel building was finished, construction was stopped due to a lack of funds. The continuation of the construction was decided in 1993.
The client wanted to adjust the comfort level of medical care to the requirements of the time, which had an impact on two major areas. One of them was the reduction of the number of beds in the wards and providing them with adjoining bathrooms. The other one was the air-conditioning of the whole building (cooling in summer and heating in winter). Adjusted to the existing structure of the building, the original six-bed wards have been converted into four-bed, as well as 2×2-bed wards, opening from wider sections of the corridor; each 4-bed unit has separate toilet and shower room opening from the vestibule. These latter premises are individually designed plastic units. The originally flat roof, nine-storey building was topped with a hip roof of steel structure in order to accommodate the air-conditioning plants. The slabs of the original building structure were not to be perforated for the large ventilation pipes, therefore, they were placed in open-air steel air-ducts, led down along the two end walls of the building. They have become major architectural features of the building together with the pitched metal sheet roof. The original facade of the building, that had already been mostly completed, has not been changed too much, its major components are the prefabricated brick cladding panels. Their monotony is broken by the central projection of the building, made of glazed aluminium structure, as well as the aluminium-glass elements at the main entrance and on the first floor.
Location: Székesfehérvár, Seregélyesi út 3. Built: 1995 Architects: BORDÁCS László, ERDŐSS Annamária Interior architect: LÁNG Judit Landscape architect: CSONTOS Péter Area: 15,000 m2
