BIOCLIMATIC BEHAVIOUR OF SMALL HEALTHCARE FACILITIES

The study carried out lately by an international research team, composed by Italian, Greek, Romanian and British experts, was aimed at creating a soft methodology for designing very simple healthcare facilities, which will enhance the sustainable character of the choices and focus on the social rather than on the therapeutic actions run within these peculiar spaces. In particular this chapter’s specific goal is that of defining the importance of the bioclimatic and bioregionalist design approach to the healthcare social structures within an urban district. In fact it is well known that today «[…] the economic centre of the city is no longer the agriculture and not even the industry […] at the core of our economy there are the services: transportation, education, health, judging system, legal business»¹.