L’infrastruttura ospedaliera per l’emergenza Covid-19: strategie costruttive sostenibili. Healthcare setting enhancements for Covid-19 emergency: sustainability and seismic management.

The Covid-19 pandemic has really test the national health system and has brought out the problem of the lack of beds in intensive care units, the narrow timeframe to increase their number and the related equipment, and the need to identify quick solutions that may allow assistance to the infected and the safe work of healthcare staff. This paper is part of this research area, which sees the concept of resilience of places dedicated to hospital emergencies as protagonist, the redesign of functional spaces and the implementation speed of additional environments, through the design experimentation concerning the expansion of the San Salvatore Hospital in L’Aquila and the design of an intensive care unit for Covid-19 patients, with spaces adapted to new needs. For this reason, it was decided to design the structure taking advantage of the qualities of dry modular construction: the protagonist of the construction system is the application of sustainable solutions, first of all the construction technique in XLAM wood panels.