With a surface of 61,000 m2 and 235 beds, the Lagonegro hospital is set to be a cutting-edge healthcare facility from the structural, technological, and patient-care points of view. 
Set in the green landscape of the Basilicata Apennine mountain region, it takes advantage of its position to offer a pleasant view to the patients admitted in the wards, which are conceived as actual hotels and built on a technological platform to accommodate the facility’s healthcare functions, from diagnosis to surgery.
The environment is user-friendly, connected to the city’s daily life through conference halls, shops, a supermarket, and a restaurant and coffee shop with a panoramic terrace.
The architectonic body is conceived to minimize the environmental impact, it uses the solar energy for the production of electricity and water heating, and takes advantage of the site’s features by exploiting the building’s orientation and position of the bodies. 
Those are coated in ventilated, recycled wood paneling and local stone slabs, alternating with large glass walls, shielded by brise-soleil blades, which will allow the interiors to be largely illuminated by natural light. 
Green roofs with shrubs and trees contribute to integrate the building with the surrounding natural view, improving winter thermal insulation while reducing the thermal load of the summer months.
The hospital is built on one single foundation plate that works both as connection between the various buildings, and as rigid, structural box, on top of which the various bodies of differing heights rise, up to a maximum 20 meters. 
The structural plan is formed of an 8 x 8 x 3.6 m. grid, repeated and repeatable indefinitely, along the two X and Y axes. This plan gives ample room for maximum flexibility in the configuration of interior spaces.