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great experience working together,” he says. “We encountered a very clever client, they were very sensitive and from the first concept onwards, every detail that was designed was shared with the whole team and implemented.”
There was a focus on designing a health- care building that would in itself make people feel good. “We work on the psychol- ogy of space, this is our field,” Macullo explains. “Our objective is to build spaces that are balanced and make people feel good.” This objective was shared among the team and therefore carried through right to the end.
The meetings held throughout the project were attended by a variety of people, includ- ing Assuta CEO Rachel Shmueli, chairman of the board Professor Joshua (Shuki) Shemer, Pnina Shleifer (who is in charge of all Assuta’s nurses), two partner architects (Tel Aviv-based Marcelo Brestovesky, and Italian firm Studio Redaelli Vimercate), landscape architect Orit Elhaiany Perez-Haifa, specialist advisor Dan Oppenheim, and a range of nurses and doctors. “In every meeting all these people were interacting and making decisions together, always based on the
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psychology of the patients and staff,” Macullo says. “Everyone was so committed to get the best out of this project.” Focusing on the psychology of the patients was particularly pertinent given the location of the hospital. There was a conscious effort to not make the building feel like a ‘bomb shelter,’ despite the fact it’s well protected against any potential attacks – so much so there’s no need to relocate patients or staff in any department in such an event. “It was a balance between being strict and being free,” Macullo explains. “When you look at it from the outside, we took away the tension of the idea of the building being a bomb shelter.” He says he wanted the building to feel like a “contemporary castle” to patients: “The feeling that we give is it’s institutional – it has to be – but it’s like a real castle, if you have the misfortune to go to the hospital, at least it’s not a simple box.” Outside the A&E department the archi- tects included a 100 metre long, V-shaped canopy in order to create the feeling of a covered courtyard. Macullo says: “It reduces the scale of the space and takes away the shock of going from an urban
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