Iaso Obstetrical and Gynaecological Clinic, Maroussi

Paradeisos, Maroussi, Attica, 1980-93

Architects:
Kyriakos Kyriakidis (1937-)
Adela Paizi-Kyriakidi (1942-), and Associates S.A.
Associate architects:
Athanasios Zeginoglou
A. Irving
S. Clark
Georgia Niakaki
Giorgos Bikos



The "Iaso" Obstetrical and Gynaecological Clinic is a characteristic example of upgraded hospital architecture in the private sector, to which the architectural firm of Kyriakos Kyriakidis and his associates have made a substantial contribution.
The clinic was built on the 1.1-hectare lot adjacent to the parking lot for the Olympic Stadium in Paradeisos, Maroussi. It has a capacity of 280 beds with a total area of 26,000 sq.m. The complex consists of five buildings interconnected on the basis of functional and stylistic criteria. Each building comprises a different number of floors according to its function. The highest buildings have three basements with eight floors over them. The third basement, in addition to parking facilities, houses storage areas, workshops, services and electrical and mechanical installations. In the second basement are the magnetic and CAT scanners, nuclear medicine, diagnostics and ancillary infrastructure areas. The first basement (with direct level access) contains the admission desk for patients and women who are about to give birth, the obstetrical clinic, operating theatres and ICU. On the ground floor are the main entrance, visitors’ waiting rooms and shops, as well as the out-patients’ clinics, radiology, laboratories and the fertility department. The Clinic’s administration is situated on the first floor.
On the second floor is the specially designed intensive care unit for newborns and the gynaecological operating theatres. The remaining five floors are devoted to the nursing units that include rooms with up to four beds, laid out radially around the staff facilities with comfortable visitors’ lounges. On the last two floors, there are luxury single rooms with a waiting room and suites.
The materials that predominate on the facades of the building are bare concrete with green aluminium door and window frames and horizontal, electrically operated shutters, metal awnings and exterior stairs.
On the interior, the reception and admission areas, lifts, etc. have been faced with granite and stainless steel.

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