Medical Center

SHORT DESCRIPTION

Reconstruction of a medical institution in the historical buildings of the former “Anthony and Valeria Bilinsky Facility of Care for Incurably Ill Patients” testifies to the continuity and heredity of the object and is a remarkable motivational tool for the reproduction of the historical patriarchal heritage. Famous Lviv architects and builders I. Levinsky, I. Bruneka, L. Ramulta, Yu. Yanovsky, A. Weissa, Yu.Gohberger, Z. Sulkovsky, K. Boublik, M. Luzhetskyy were involved in the design and construction of this facility. The historic projects of 1891-1892, the facility was built on, are impeccable in all respects: the composition of the buildings on site, internal layout, functional compliance with the requirements for medical facilities, the expressiveness of the three-dimensional solution and silhouette, the "pure style" in the decorative elaboration of facades and interiors.

The main task in developing this concept was not to disturb the style purity and layout, taking into account the medical tasks and modern requirements for health facilities:
- preservation of the green garden and integration thereof into the block structure and its openness for the street residents;
- preservation of the construction scale along the narrow Smal-Stotsky Street;
- dismantling of low-value dissonant buildings and ensuring openness to the inner garden and the visual expansion of the street space;
- use of the historical brick module to preserve the character in the new volumes decoration;
- tolerant combination of newly created shapes with historic buildings by using glass "sky-bridge" passages.

Historic buildings are complicated tasks for all investors. An object can be an example of preserving the historical heritage not only in visual details and a silhouette but also its preserving the place spirit.