CUF Descobertas Hospital, Lisbon Architecture, Portuguese Building Development, Photos
CUF Descobertas Hospital in Lisbon
New Health Building Development in Portugal – design by IDOM
7 May 2019
CUF Descobertas Hospital
Architects: IDOM
Location: Lisbon, Portugal

The construction of this new building was the consequence of the need to extend the CUF Descobertas Hospital, property of Portugal?s main private healthcare group ? Jose de Mello Saude ? and it works exclusively as an out-patient?s clinic.

Located in the Parque Das Nacoes in Lisbon, the original building, designed at the end of the 90s, marked the beginning of a new era in the country?s hospital design, introducing very innovative criteria both in its functional distribution and, particularly, the promotion of a new hospital image in which healthcare premises would be made more comfortable and humane to patients and personnel.
The extension building, inaugurated at the end of 2018, had to respond to a complex set of programmatic and urbanistic requirements. More important however was the fact that it was being introduced in its essence, as a powerful ?external device?, full of functional availability, stemming from its base like a cell that duplicates, not to reproduce, but rather to become whole, making the entire infrastructure evolve towards a ?hospital campus? idea.

The formal character of the new Building 2 of the CUF Descobertas Hospital would have to be in line with this sensitive balance. It had to...