The experience of conversion teaches that a function is never definitive and nourishes reflection on the building's ability to change uses during its history. That experience is applied here to the hospital architecture of the new buildings of the hospital in Annecy. The architectural programme of this type of facility, like its design phase, is in fact only one moment in a building's life.
The project is designed like a small city, each of whose components has its own degree of permanence. The architecture is in line with in an organic logic of incompletion which does not call the general validity of the building into question. On an exceptional natural site at a strategic crossroads of access roads and thoroughfares, the idea is to propose a hospital architecture that is de-monumentalised, designed like a garden city and clinging almost organically to the topography of the terrain.
The horizontality of the buildings and their dimensioning at a human scale provide a simple, clear vision of an organisation into autonomous functional hubs. They are served by an ensemble of interior streets accessible to all or, on the contrary, assigned to medical or logistical functions.