Hospice "House with a lighthouse" is a long-awaited and necessary institution for the city to provide palliative, medical and psychological assistance to terminally ill children. The project is completely charitable, and in order for it to take place, many have joined. In particular, the city donated to the hospice charitable foundation the building of the old school built in 1936 and the adjoining land plot for free lease for 49 years.
And the development company "O1 Properties" became a sponsor as a technical customer: work was carried out to study the old building and in 2013 an architectural competition was held, in which, despite the participation of large successful bureaus, the then still very young company IND architects, headed by Amir Idiatullin.
“Despite the fact that the foundation had a very detailed technical task, we asked to be organized an excursion to an adult Moscow hospice, where Nyuta Federmeister, one of the founders of the foundation, worked. There we met a woman whose son lay in an adult hospice and she told a lot about what children need in this space, that they all also want to continue to play, stay active, communicate, move around, be on the street … This is how our project was born which we made not look like a hospital: with bright facades and large terraces, which can be reached even in a wheelchair to be in nature."
Today the old building of the Soviet school is unrecognizable - it is surrounded by wide side balconies, which you can go to and go in any weather - to be in the fresh air, to get out of the "four walls". The lines of the facade refer to the famous story of the girl Sadako Sasaki from Hiroshima, who, dying of leukemia, had the idea of making a thousand paper cranes using the origami technique. Therefore, many elements of the facade refer to the aesthetics of origami - the roof of the balconies, the conservatory and the canopy of the entrance group look as if they were made of paper. The columns are like the parts that make up a paper crane. The color scheme of the facade consists of bright and saturated shades, which corresponds to the chosen concept - origami is traditionally created from small fragments of multi-colored paper. “The result is not just an architectural form, but a form with history - and children love stories,” Amir specifies.
The facade is clad with clinker in several shades, according to the architects' idea, it gives the building a more “homely look”. According to the initial idea, illuminated bricks were to be installed in the clinker inlay, which would glow at night in order to beat the image of the "lighthouse", but the budget did not allow the idea to be fully realized.
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zooming 1/4 Children's hospice "House with a lighthouse", project © IND Architects
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zooming 2/4 Children's hospice "House with a lighthouse", project © IND Architects
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zooming 3/4 Children's hospice "House with a lighthouse", project © IND Architects
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zooming 4/4 Children's hospice "House with a lighthouse", project © IND Architects
On the first and second floors of the hospice, 15 single rooms for children and their parents with the necessary auxiliary rooms were placed. Children are helped both directly in the hospice itself and at home, for which a large mobile palliative service has been created, whose offices are also located in this building on the upper floors. In addition, to the main school building with an area of just over 4000 m2 made an extension with an area of another 1000 m2, which made it possible to place all the necessary additional premises.
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zooming 1/12 Children's Hospice "House with a Lighthouse" Photo: courtesy of IND architects
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zooming 2/12 “House with a Lighthouse” Children's Hospice Photo: Courtesy of IND Architects
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zooming 3/12 “House with a Lighthouse” Children's Hospice Photo: Courtesy of IND Architects
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zooming 4/12 “House with a Lighthouse” Children's Hospice Photo: Courtesy of IND Architects
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zooming 5/12 “House with a Lighthouse” Children's Hospice Photo: Courtesy of IND Architects
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zooming 6/12 “House with a Lighthouse” Children's Hospice Photo: Courtesy of IND Architects
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zooming 7/12 “House with a Lighthouse” Children's Hospice Photo: Courtesy of IND Architects
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zooming 8/12 “House with a Lighthouse” Children's Hospice Photo: Courtesy of IND Architects
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zooming 9/12 “House with a Lighthouse” Children's Hospice Photo: Courtesy of IND Architects
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zooming 10/12 Children's Hospice “House with a Lighthouse” Photo: Courtesy of IND Architects
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zooming 11/12 “House with a Lighthouse” Children's Hospice Photo: Courtesy of IND Architects
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zooming 12/12 Children's Hospice “House with a Lighthouse” Photo: Courtesy of IND Architects
The building was completely redesigned taking into account numerous norms and requirements (norms of children's institutions, norms of medical institutions, increased safety standards for institutions working with narcotic drugs - painkillers) - which had to be brought together. In particular, there was an elevator, wide doorways, separate entrances-receivers. In addition to the wards, the office of palliative services, rooms for games and study (and the children study here), the building has a pool in which even children can swim on a ventilator.
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zooming 1/6 Technical underground plan. Children's hospice "House with a lighthouse" © IND Architects
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zooming 2/6 Plan of the 1st floor. Children's hospice "House with a lighthouse" © IND Architects
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zooming 3/6 Plan of the 2nd floor. Children's hospice "House with a lighthouse" © IND Architects
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zooming 4/6 Plan of the 3rd floor. Children's hospice "House with a lighthouse" © IND Architects
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zooming 5/6 Plan of the 4th floor. Children's hospice "House with a lighthouse" © IND Architects
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zooming 6/6 Plan of the technical attic. Children's hospice "House with a lighthouse" © IND Architects
The internal content of the hospice was made as flexible as possible, convenient for children, who do not dictate the rules: everything around is in hand-made drawings, you can draw on the walls. “We came up with beautiful verified“designer”interiors, which in the end could not be fully realized,” says Amir Idiatullin. “But now, I think, this is for the best. It turned out to be a very lively space. Children themselves fill these interiors with their drawings, handicrafts - their part, memory remains”.
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zooming 1/3 Children's hospice "House with a lighthouse", project © IND Architects
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zooming 2/3 Children's hospice "House with a lighthouse", project © IND Architects
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zooming 3/3 Children's hospice "House with a lighthouse", project © IND Architects
The variety of functional areas inside the hospice allows the child to choose how he wants to spend time - with friends, with parents who can stay with him in the ward (for this, there is an extra bed in each room), alone in silence on the veranda, balcony or on the roof, where they also laid out a small garden and made a canopy. The slogan of Moscow hospices “life for the rest of life” has been fully implemented in the architecture of the building.
