PRINCIPAL	AZIENDA OSPEDALIERA DI FERRARA
CONTRACTEE:	Prog. Este spa Planning: STS spa - Studio Altieri spa
CONTRACT:	Architectonic planning of the new building and renovations, structural planning.
AMOUNT UPSET PRICE:	€ 135.651.370,00

The project of completion and enlargement of Sant'Anna Hospital intends to complete the existing buildings in Cona in order to construct a new top-level health care facility, by dismantling the current hospital building and including university research and teaching areas. The project idea had to take into consideration all previous constructions, trying to dismantle as few buildings as possible.

Given these considerations, we have decided to follow an alternative way that on the one hand maintained certain functions (mainly health care ones) within the pre-existing structures, and tried to introduce the new activities within the already-built sections, keeping the existing connecting battens as a supporting framework.

In order to improve the external/internal paths, the new systems is founded on the following key points:
- The new reception building: a place where the patients are handled and sorted, equipped with information points, direction offices, commercial area, guest quarters and kindergarten.
- The new connecting line, a sort of "hospital lane" offering a backbone for didactical and research activities, acting like a mediation and a connection space between the health care area and the training and research area.
- Technological and administrative areas located in separate areas, this solution is closely linked to the need to store goods in underground rooms, and to define a new circular upstairs route for goods coming in and out of the different hospital departments and wards.

The new volumetric plan that is coming out of the project hypothesis starts from the existing system, accepts it within the new architectural rules and tries to create a strong synergy between the present blocks and the new constructions. The final result should be a new city area where different architectural styles can coexist in harmony, improving the overall system quality.