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Pierre-Paul Riquet Hospital
Largest hospital site in France
Pierre-Paul Riquet Hospital has its origins in the CHU’s desire to continue the restructuring of the Purpan site. The project of the agencies Scau and Kardham Architecture is part of the master plan of the university hospital.
In addition to the insertion of such gigantic equipment into the site, one of the major challenges of the operation is to build a building capable of promoting the horizontal operation of each entity, as well as to reduce the 15 meters of height difference.
This horizontal organization optimizes the necessary spatial flexibility in hospital buildings where facilities change as medical techniques evolve.
With a surface area of 91,000 sqm and a capacity of 600 beds, it houses three major programmatic entities:
- Centres of care and hospitalization (locomotor institute, cephalic centre, neuroscience centre),
- Mutualized Medico-technical Plateau (26 operating rooms, 52 post-operational monitoring spaces, imaging services)
- Teaching and research centre (345 seats amphitheatre and classrooms).
A linear and horizontal building to promote mobility between services
The light that is reflected on the ground plays to define the waiting areas
The building on two floors offers a variety of services: Traumatology, Neuroscience, Cephalic, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, Ambulatory, Resuscitation, Intensive care.
The reception hall allows visitors to wait in a clean space
Technical informations
| Location | Toulouse (31) |
| Contracting authority | Centre hospitalier universitaire de Toulouse |
| Design bureau | Technip TPS, Serige |
| Visual artist | G.Tiné |
| Mission | Full |
| Surface | 91,000 sqm |
| Capacity | 126,000 sqm / 600 beds in 3 clinical poles |
| Amount | 207 M€ HT |
| Delivery | 2014 |
