Architect: MAROSI Miklós
The new psychiatric pavilion has been designed with consideration to the latest therapeutic methods, the building provides suitable environment for intense professional work, different personal consultations and group therapies.
The new psychiatric pavilion has been built on the northern side of the Nyírő Gyula Hospital campus, in place of some demolished temporary barracks which had been unsuitable for the treatment of patients. The five-storey building has been designed with consideration to the latest principles in psychiatry, in the spirit of the “open door” system; as an institution where the patients enjoy more freedom and flexibility. Instead of the secure wards typical in the older mental institutions, drug treatment, sleep and rest therapy are used here and the patients are free to move around in the building and also in the surrounding hospital garden. The reception area, the rooms of the emergency care unit, the staff changing rooms and the therapy rooms are located on the ground floor. Even the large cafeteria supports therapy to a certain extent: its open-air, roofed terrace is a popular hangout for patients and their visitors. There are two wards with 36 beds on each of the first four floors. The small, private rooms of the doctors and psychiatrists are located across the aula, separated from the patients’ wards. This solution allows a more intense professional work and offers the possibility to consult with the relatives of the patients. Group therapy and individual activity rooms, as well as the patients’ dining room are located on the fifth floor.
The flat roof building is clad with white sand-lime bricks from Barcs, laid in flat and soldier courses. The playful effect of the smooth and split brick surfaces, combined with the aluminium and glass curtain-wall structures, create variety on the facade.
The National Psychiatric and Addiction Institute (OPAI) was founded in 2013 and it has to operate within the basis of the Nyírő Gyula Hospital, using its infrastructure. The psychiatric pavilion has become the headquarters for this institute.
Location: Budapest XIII., Lehel utca 59. Built: 1997 Architect: MAROSI Miklós Associate architect: ULRICH Tamás Interior architect: SZÉKELYI Zsuzsa Area: 9430 m2
