The Bartlett
Summer Show 2026
25 June – 12 July
Summer Show 2026
The Bartlett
Summer Show 2026
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![The proposal poises itself above the existing A and E department of the Molinette. The recovery ward and operating rooms plug into the cirulation plans of the hospital, allowing for the extension to become auxillary to the other departments.]()
![The model is designed to be read at two scales, as an architectural model at 1:50 scale, and as a medical instrument at 1:1 scale. The model requires two protagonists, who personify at 1:1 scale the neighbouring departments of the Molinette]()
![The client/patient is introduced to the model, where it can be explained either as an architectural proposal and/or a medical instrument to inspect the palate health of the patient.]()
![The patient engages with the instrument, where their palate can be inspected, though looking through each viewpoint of the neighbouring departments, represented by the white chin rests.]()
![The doctor is able to inspect the palate of the patient though the roof of the existing hospital, through the window of the proposal, and into the mouth. At 1:1, the departments are able to inspect each other’s health through the proposal.]()
Zuppa Alla Plastica: A Surgery And Soup Osteria For The Molinette Hospital Complex
The proposal is a speculation of alternative health infrastructure for a new palatoplasty surgery department and a soup Osteria for the Ospedale Molinette in Turin. The extension of the hospital becomes an integrated instrument of health, through both its porcelain materiality and its utilisation of the steaming process to sanitise its spaces. The creation of a reticent architecture, whose forms allude to a deeper function of hygiene, dissolves the intimidation of the hospital surgery and recovery processes through the medium of communal soup consumption for both patients and the public.
Long Section
The proposal poises itself above the existing A and E department of the Molinette. The recovery ward and operating rooms plug into the cirulation plans of the hospital, allowing for the extension to become auxillary to the other departments.
Relationship across Scale
The model is designed to be read at two scales, as an architectural model at 1:50 scale, and as a medical instrument at 1:1 scale. The model requires two protagonists, who personify at 1:1 scale the neighbouring departments of the Molinette
Scena Uno: Presentation to the client/patient
The client/patient is introduced to the model, where it can be explained either as an architectural proposal and/or a medical instrument to inspect the palate health of the patient.
Scena Due: Revealing the palate
The patient engages with the instrument, where their palate can be inspected, though looking through each viewpoint of the neighbouring departments, represented by the white chin rests.
Scena Quattro e Cinque: The Doctor’s view
The doctor is able to inspect the palate of the patient though the roof of the existing hospital, through the window of the proposal, and into the mouth. At 1:1, the departments are able to inspect each other’s health through the proposal.
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