University La Sapienza at Sant’Andrea Hospital

The Faculty of Medicine and Psychology of the University of Rome “La Sapienza” within the “Sant’Andrea” Hospital is a new building composed by a pure stereo-metrical volume with a system of horizontal holes on the sides.

This regular system is interrupted at the two main front sides: on the south of the building there is a platform, supported by pillars with irregular position and thickness, to indicate the main access to the building; on the north, a smaller platform indicates the access to a parking area. A vast metal coating skin, a tubular brise-soleil, enriches the two access fronts while screening some holes on the south side and masking the external emergency stairs on the north. The main rooms and a store are located on the ground floor thus to create a kind of “square”. At the higher floors, the wide empty space is delimited by a surrounding connected system of rooms and laboratories.