paimio sanatorium

Fig. 3.1.3a. Detail of the competition-stage drawing No. 50-26. The drawing has
been edited. AAM.

[Volumes] [m^3 ]

Service building 5,000

Sanatorium 26,550

Sun deck 2,500

Medical Director’s villa 1,700

Junior Physicians’ residence 2,500

Workers’ apartment building 2,200

Morgue 90

Total 40,540

Sun decks facing the south directly, additional deck

alternatively on patient pavilion roof, summer decks

protected by walls and plantations.

Patient rooms facing towards morning sun, the non-

opening window reaches the floor, low radiator wall

20 centimetre thick to allow for favourable diagonal

light, steel windows with double quartz glazing.

The tall buildings have slanted, heat and water

insulated concrete roofs that can be laid with “tiles”.

Timber-structured tile roof with a steep pitch would

be too complicated for the footprint of the building.

Tile roofs for the small buildings.

Patient room door with “Stahl-Holz” structure, cork

sound proofing and rubber.

Floor covering rubber and linoleum.

Service building facing the morning sun.

Corners rendered into a rounded shape.

SPECIFICATION