La Saleggina
The former military site of La Saleggina is the location for a new hospital—an opportunity to address the key challenges of flexibility, future growth, openness to the city, and sustainability in an exemplary manner. It must be at once a functional machine, a healing environment, an inviting place for patients, visitors, and staff, as well as a new public space for Bellinzona. The Ticino hospital, with a capacity for 450 beds, will be built in two phases by 2050. The building is raised due to the natural risk of flooding from the Ticino River. Its curved shape creates public open spaces on the city and river sides, which are connected by landscaped walkways. Underground parts of the building are reduced to only what is absolutely necessary in order to minimize the grey energy required to construct the hospital and the impact on the topography of the site. More Than a Hospital: Three Gardens The site is located in the alluvial plain of the Ticino River and is part of the Magadino plain, a productive landscape in which agriculture and recreation complement each other. The plain, which is also central to the biodiversity of this region, is framed by high mountains.
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