Pargade Architectes

Neuroscience Center Sainte-Anne Hospital

Neuroscience Center Sainte-Anne Hospital 

PARGADE Architecte

Neuroscience Center Sainte-Anne Hospital
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ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTANT
Oasiis

PROJECT OWNER
Ghu Paris Centre Hospitalier Sainte-anne

PROGRAM
Complete Reconstruction Of Sainte-anne Hospital's University Neuroscience Center, Including: A Surgical And Interventional Area With 4 Rooms And 2 Electroconvulsive Therapy Rooms, An Imaging Department, 135 Beds And Spaces, Consultation Rooms, And A Day Hospital. The Building Has Achieved The E+c- Label (Energy 3, Carbon 1) With The Installation Of Solar Panels And 4,200 M² Of Green Spaces.

COST CONSULTANT
Us&co

GENERAL CONTRACTOR
Cbc

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
Consultant Atixis

SUPPLIERS AND MATERIALS
Hand-molded Terracotta Bricks: Terreal (Terca Model) Frames: Technal Hydro

MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Edeis

PHOTOGRAPHS
Charly Broyez

TOTAL COST
€49.2 Million

AREA
15500 M²

YEAR
2024

LOCATION
Paris, France

CATEGORY
Hospital, Research, Sustainability

Neuroscience Center Sainte-Anne Hospital
© Charly Broyez

Text description provided by architect.

In Paris (14th arrondissement), for the GHU Paris Centre Hospitalier Sainte-Anne (the project owner), Pargade Architects completed the new Neuroscience Center in 2024.

This project bridges the legacy of architect Charles Auguste Questel (1807–1888) with a facility decidedly open to the city.

Neuroscience Center Sainte-Anne Hospital
© Charly Broyez
Neuroscience Center Sainte-Anne Hospital
© Charly Broyez

Since its founding, Sainte-Anne Hospital has been a laboratory for mental health and also serves as a laboratory for architecture and urban planning.

Within this demanding heritage context, the Neuroscience project, designed by Pargade Architectes, envisions the hospital of tomorrow through its architectural approach.

Neuroscience Center Sainte-Anne Hospital
© Charly Broyez
Neuroscience Center Sainte-Anne Hospital
© Charly Broyez

The program called for a complete reconstruction of Sainte-Anne's neuroscience university center, comprising a four-room operating and interventional sector, two electroconvulsive therapy rooms, an imaging department, 135 beds and spaces for consultations, and a day hospital.

Furthermore, the program's ambition was to create a strong connection between psychiatry and neuroscience, leading to a design approach that considers the entirety of the seven-hectare site, half of which is landscaped as green spaces.

Neuroscience Center Sainte-Anne Hospital
© Charly Broyez
Neuroscience Center Sainte-Anne Hospital
© Charly Broyez

The functional organization of the Neuroscience Center thus meets the new complexities of hospital programs.

The center is arranged with flexible multi-purpose floors, adaptable to different zones centered around patient flows and optimized management of horizontal and vertical circulation.

Hospital-university hubs, or satellites, interconnected and accessible to the city, are situated within the historical framework around a cooling green area. The project thus shapes the future site layout, paving the way for the "hospital eco-district of tomorrow."

Neuroscience Center Sainte-Anne Hospital
© Charly Broyez
Neuroscience Center Sainte-Anne Hospital
© Charly Broyez
Neuroscience Center Sainte-Anne Hospital
© Charly Broyez

In continuation of Questel's utilitarian neoclassical architectural style, the choice of a pure volumetric form, with a reduced vocabulary of repetitive elements, creates a sense of unity and completeness.

The handmade limestone-colored brickwork connects the structure with its surroundings, bridging the Parisian suburban and historical settings, with a new urban square that interfaces between the street and the interior of the site.

Set apart from the historical quadrangle of Sainte-Anne, the project reinforces the hospital's overall pavilion layout, highlights its perfect geometry, and opens it resolutely to the city.

Neuroscience Center Sainte-Anne Hospital
© Charly Broyez
Neuroscience Center Sainte-Anne Hospital
© Charly Broyez
Neuroscience Center Sainte-Anne Hospital
© Charly Broyez
Neuroscience Center Sainte-Anne Hospital
© Charly Broyez


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