Remodeling the Expansion of Monumental Hospitals in Urban Areas: The Approach to Sustainable Culture

The paper focuses on different design experiences that emphasize the importance of social and structural interactions that the environmental and urban context intertwine and beckon for building reuse. This also means dealing with the meaning of sustainability in design context that aim to give increasing importance to the “cultural value” of hospital architecture, either historical or mainstream Modernism. The issues of regeneration and functional integration with the city’s urban fabric and services are closely related to the strategic importance of social, economic and environmental sustainability that involve topics such as: accessibility; building dimensions; urban integration; time distance; visual impact and, last but not least, cultural value.