CELLS Healthcare of the future

For the first time, healthcare architecture takes center stage at Milan Design Week inside the University of Milan—a masterful example of an early Renaissance model hospital.

The installation consists of two glass structures or “cells” with antithetical formal characteristics, which establish a visual dialogue by placing themselves at opposite corners of the courtyard. They represent the two complementary spirits of the healthcare of the future: on one hand, the focus on transforming the hospital into a domestic space, on the other hand, the advent of the “virtual healthcare” and consequent “dehospitalization”.
The common denominator of each unit is placing the visitor at the center, emphasizing the need for a paradigm shift: moving away from the current hospital-centric model toward future healthcare facilities that are human-scaled and widely distributed throughout the community.