A healthcare project designed to reconcile technology and human nature, avoiding the risk that interest of the system and organization prevail over those of the individual.
An increasing number of scientific investigations has confirmed the beneficial effects that exposure to the natural world has on the psycho-physical health of the human being, reducing blood pressure, heart rate, muscle tension, the production of stress hormones and contributing to the healing process.
The starting point for our proposal for the completion of the Ragusa Hospital was to enhance the interaction between the hospital, as a technological construct, with the nature present on the site and around it, trying to give an ‘urban’ definition to the spaces created by the hospital and creating actual therapeutic ‘places’.
