National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center

Creating initiatives to enhance urban presence

This is a plan to relocate the National Center for the Treatment and Research of Cardiovascular Diseases, which is a world leader in the field, to the site of the JR Hitahata Station yard. The center is positioned as a core facility within the "North Osaka Health and Medical City (Kento") project, a health and medical development initiative being implemented by the cities of Hitahata and Settsu. In the future, an international medical cluster is expected to be formed, with medical institutions, research institutes, and companies such as Hitahata City Hospital gathering there.

Information dissemination zones, hospitals, open innovation centers, research and development infrastructure centers, and laboratories are sequentially arranged in a continuous pattern, with an open space inserted in the connection areas to create a fragmented layout, reducing the visual length of the facility, which is 270 meters in total.
In particular, the Open Innovation Center will be the core of creating a collaborative system that extends beyond the hospital and research institute to external industry and academia.

The ward is designed as a bright space with open-ended corridors. The patient rooms are arranged in a row of four beds, making it easy to convert them into private rooms. The plan is also designed to accommodate future growth and changes. In terms of structure, earthquake-resistant design has been adopted to ensure safety, and structural separation between the buildings has been achieved to ensure flexibility. Furthermore, each building is connected by new expansion joints, creating a facility that is architecturally integrated.

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