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Entrance Hall
A double-height hall around a glazed garden of palms, with a curved timber reception.
F&B, Corporate & Commercial
224 | Children of Africa Hospital
Location
Bingerville, Côte d'Ivoire
Type
Mother & child hospital
The idea
A hospital that greets children with colour.
Children of Africa Hospital in Bingerville is a mother and child hospital. Its double-height entrance hall is bright and open: white stone floors, timber-clad columns and a curved reception desk set against a glazed garden of palms, with ring pendants overhead and a serpentine blue sofa for waiting families.
The interiors speak to children first. Wall murals of giraffes and elephants run along the corridors, a portrait relief and handwritten lines of French greet visitors in the café and library corner, and coloured signposts point the way. The patient rooms and VIP suites are calm, in pale blue and light timber, with a lounge area beside each bed.
Material palette
Serpentine blue sofa
Entrance hall
Glazed palm garden
Entrance hall
Giraffe mural
Corridors
Blue portrait relief
Café & library
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Café & Library
A café and children’s library corner under a blue portrait relief.
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Corridors
Giraffe and elephant murals along the waiting corridors.
About the project
A route for families, from hall to bedside.
Families come in through the entrance hall, where the reception desk faces the palms behind their glass. To one side, the café and library corner offers somewhere to pause, with books for children and the relief in blue above. From there the corridors lead on, and the animals painted along them keep young patients company as they walk or wait. The route ends at the patient rooms and VIP suites, where every bed has a small sitting area next to it.
White stone underfoot keeps the hall light; timber wraps the columns and gives them warmth. The blue sofa winds through the waiting area as one long shared seat. The glazed garden brings daylight and green into the middle of the building. In the corridors, the giraffe mural turns a plain wall into something to follow. In the bedrooms of this Bingerville hospital, the blue becomes paler and the timber lighter, so the rooms feel quiet.
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