7 Architecture Firms Selected to Redesign Brescia's Spedali Civili Hospital Campus in Italy

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The project developed by CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati , Park Associati , Politecnica Building for Humans, Openfabric , DOTDOTDOT, Studio Mattioli, and Eckersley O'Callaghan has been selected to design the new Main Hospital and Children's Hospital in Brescia , Italy . The international competition mandate was to redevelop an existing hospital, preserving and extending a radial plan conceived by engineer Angelo Bordoni in the early twentieth century. The existing healthcare complex, Spedali Civili di Brescia, follows a hexagonal masterplan and radial layout that informs the new design for the premises. The geometry is reinterpreted to update the campus for future models of care, drawing a new CareRing around it that connects people, nature, and healthcare through the principles of One Health , the idea that human health, environmental health, and social wellbeing are inseparable.