Services
Reliability in a medical building is the outcome of a step-by-step process, not a single design decision.
We have been designing healthcare facilities for over twenty years. Our experience spans small and large outpatient clinics, day surgery units with operating theatres, specialist and teaching hospitals, medical and research laboratories, rehabilitation and supervised-stay facilities, and complexes made up of several buildings that complement one another functionally. The expertise gained over those years means that resolving complex technological requirements never constrains our freedom in the architecture itself. The spaces we design are flexible and open to change, because in this building category change is the rule rather than the exception.
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CLINICS AND OUTPATIENT FACILITIES
For most patients, the clinic is their first and most frequent contact with the health system. We design them so the patient’s route is legible from the door: reception, waiting area, consulting room, diagnostics. Patient, staff and supply circulation are separated without turning the building into a maze. We attend to daylight in waiting areas and consulting rooms, to acoustics wherever conversations about health take place, and to access for people with reduced mobility. A clinic’s programme shifts as its range of services changes, so we design the structural and services layout with capacity for future reconfiguration.
HOSPITALS AND SURGICAL UNITS
An operating theatre suite, a day surgery unit and an inpatient ward are three different operating logics inside one building. We coordinate them from the first sketches: cleanliness zoning, airlocks, clean and dirty routes, and requirements for ventilation, medical gases and backup power. In parallel we work on what technological briefs do not record: the view from the bed, orientation without having to read signage, a place where a family can wait with dignity. Experience across hospital and clinical projects allows us to run coordination with medical technologists without losing momentum..
MEDICAL AND RESEARCH LABORATORIES
A laboratory is a building of services. We design around cleanliness classifications, extraction, process media, and maintenance routes that must be reachable without entering working zones. We assume the equipment will change faster than the building, so the structural grid, floor-to-floor heights and risers are sized for future apparatus rather than only for what is specified today.
REHABILITATION AND SUPERVISED STAY
Buildings that combine treatment with an extended stay follow their own rules. Sanitary and technical requirements apply exactly as they do in a hospital, but the user experience is closer to a hotel. We design guest rooms, rehabilitation hubs and catering areas so that the medical infrastructure stays out of sight, while materials, light and outlook create conditions that support recovery. Our experience covers movement therapy rooms, treatment rooms fitted with specialist equipment including hyperbaric and cryogenic chambers, and rooms for supervised medical stay.
MULTI-BUILDING COMPLEXES
Extending an existing hospital or medical campus is an urban design task as much as an architectural one. We work through phasing, continuity of clinical operations during construction, connections between buildings, and visual coherence across structures built years apart. We take such projects from urban concept through to site supervision.
MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY AND ADAPTABILITY
A medical brief changes during design, and often during construction. We treat that as the starting assumption. A repeating structural grid, spare capacity in risers and service voids, and partitions that can move without structural work allow changes to be absorbed without redesigning the whole. The same principle lowers the cost of later reconfiguration when a payer contract or service profile shifts.
RECOGNITION
Our healthcare projects have been recognised in national and international competitions for well over a decade.
- 2026 Jury Prize, Architizer A+ Awards, Hospitals & Healthcare Centers, for Wave 4 and Wave 5
- 2023 Polityka Architectural Award, laureate, Wave 1
- 2022 LOOP Design Awards, winner in the Healthcare category, Wave 1, from 705 entries across 56 countries
- 2022 Architizer A+Awards, special mention, Wave 1
- 2009 First prize, national competition, Regional Blood Donation and Treatment Centre, Racibórz