Marga Marga Hospital

The Ministry of Public Works (MOP), in collaboration with the Ministry of Health (MINSAL) and the Healthcare System of Viña del Mar (SSVM), commissioned luis vidal + architects and SWARQ the design of a new hospital in the V Region of Chile, Valparaíso.

This project aims to become a reference to Villa Alemana and will be interrelated with a network of hospitals through the Southern CH-60 highway. The construction and financing will be through a public-private partnership (PPP).

The plot is bordered on the north by the municipality of Villa Alemana and on the south by the highway. It is bounded on three sides by steep slopes that protect it from the noise of the highway. The creation of treatment blocks fills the basin produced by geographical features. The slope is softened in contact with the city, providing a façade to it that creates a friendly urban space with access to the hospital.

On the other hand, it is worth noting that a dry riverbed runs from North to South in the middle of the land. Because of the anti-seismic regulations of the country, it is considered a vulnerable area, and foundations in this zone have to be avoided. The program has therefore been divided into two slabs over anti-seismic insulators that are interrupted over the watershed by a building of non-clinical use, which works like a simply supported beam, free of movement at the ends of the slabs.

Schematic design by luis vidal + architects in association with Swarq.