The Grand Paris-Nord University Hospital is characterized by a desire to create a building and interior architecture with strong resilience over time. To cope with crises, constant technical developments, and rapid changes in our societies, it has been designed to accommodate the functional entities of the hospital according to a typology that offers maximum scalability.

The design of the project for the Saint-Ouen Grand Paris-Nord University Hospital Campus is based on one principle: "a hospital where it is good to work is one where it is good to be treated". The “magnet” is the hospital succeeds to attract and retain its staff, establish a work environment conducive to the exercise of safe and quality care, to reconcile quality of life at work and excellence.

Search for quality: A simple and warm interior design, which accompanies patients and caregivers

The group, composed of Architecturestudio, Artelia, and Patrick Jouin iD, focused on the essence of the project, which is strongly expressed thanks to the attention paid to efficiency and simplicity. They also had the ambition to take care of the quality of the interior architecture, details, and design and whether they are accessible to the public or reserved for the care teams and technicians in charge of the proper functioning of this treatment machine. Hospitality is the first factor in the attractiveness of a state-of-the-art hospital. The project aims to establish the right balance between a reassuring, sober, functional universe, and a highly technical and efficient building.

For this project, the design of the interior space ensures the functionality, efficiency, and coherency within the project, but it also carries a sensitive part related to the human. Therefore, the spatial quality of volumes and their materiality play a key role in the perception of well-being for both the patient and the caregiver. The simple, fluid, ergonomic lines, without roughness, with soft, pleasant curves, and the materials selected for their properties – durability, solidity, ease of maintenance – are in line with the compositions, aspects, and textures and the spirit of the project.

Waiting and break areas are designed to be warm, appropriate to meetings, but also intimate, and soothing. The design of the room promotes the patient's perception of a place of their own distinct from the medical space and provides a soothing space leading to remission.