Refunctionalization of the former Policlinic no. 2 Pantelimon into an integrated outpatient complex within the Nicolae Malaxa Clinical Hospital — a medical institution with interwar roots, founded for the workers of the Malaxa Works and bearing its current name since 1991. With a built area of approximately 6,600 sqm, the project consolidates, extends and adds floors to three existing buildings, from B+G+2F to B+G+3F plus a technical floor, for the Bucharest Administration of Hospitals and Medical Services (ASSMB).

Challenges

Two constraints defined the project. Operational: building C houses the family doctors' offices, which cannot interrupt their activity during construction and for which no temporary relocation space exists. Typological: the 1970s-1980s building had to be consolidated and extended upward without losing its original character and without the new intervention mimicking an era it does not belong to.

Solutions

Construction in two functionally independent phases. Phase 1 — buildings A and B, fully operational on completion. Phase 2 — building C, with the family doctors' offices active throughout the works on the other buildings.

Articulating the 1970s-1980s language with a contemporary intervention. The existing floors, after consolidation with new reinforced-concrete shear walls and column jacketing, receive a ventilated facade with Bond-type cladding — contemporary materials that echo the vertical rhythm of the original bays. The added levels — floor 3 plus a technical floor — are treated distinctly, with sandwich panels and green chromatic accents, explicitly marking the new intervention. The green takes over the visual identity of the Malaxa Hospital on Vergului Road, extending the institution's color code to the new Pantelimon location.

Functional reorganization for a new typology. The shift from a policlinic (individual offices, minimal shared flows) to an integrated outpatient unit (separate flows for patients, waste, pharmacy supply, staff, food service) required rethinking the accesses on all four facades.

Result

For ASSMB and the Malaxa Hospital, an expanded medical complex, with the existing offices' activity continued throughout construction. For PPAE, the project is part of over 15 years of experience in the Healthcare typology, with a particular complexity: consolidation, deep refunctionalization, vertical extension and phasing on a building in use.

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