New Orleans Hospital (45)

• Type of construction: hospital (healthcare), new construction
• Owner: C.H.R. d’Orléans, in association with ICADE (project management), INDIGO (HQE), CEROC (OPC) and IOSIS (Synthesis)
• Architect: Cabinet Groupe 6 Architectes
• Product: 25,000 m² of SMOOTH MATT plane and curve
• Installation systems : Cladding with backing structure (CWB) with CAREA Grooved cladding (flat surface) and CAREA Insert (treatment of curves)

THE FACADES OF THE NEW ORLEANS HOSPITAL RECONSTRUCT THEIR HEALTH WITH CAREA®
A brand-new 1,304-bed, 205,000 m² hospital on the La Source site, 10 km from downtown Orléans.
The CAREA® Cladding with backing structure (CWB) system was chosen for the external thermal insulation of the facades (ITE), which exceeds requirements (RT 2005 performance +20%), limiting consumption due to energy loss from the walls to 33.4 kWh/m²/year (compared with 134 kWh/m²/year for the existing building).

25,000 m² of CAREA® facade cladding
The 25,000 m² of Cladding are installed using a special vertical installation method: the cladding is held in place by grooves on the vertical edges of the CAREA® facade cladding (which are usually horizontal). This special feature made it possible to meet the requirements of the Architects / specifiers with slender slabs.
The cladding is installed on wood-frame walls, in compliance with the ATEx design specification for this project.
Pastel colors (pink, orange yellow, aurora yellow, golden yellow, green, blue green, violet pink, serac white, Chinese red) were specially created for this project in close collaboration with the colorist architect.

With its recognizable ellipse, the Nouvel Hôpital d’Orléans (NHO) marks the southern entrance to the city and the La Source district, and offers a high-quality landscaped setting. Its compact, animated and fragmented horizontal architecture blends harmoniously with its Urban environment. The NHO is structured from east to west into five main accommodation hubs: medium-stay, high-consultation medicine, medicine, surgery, and mother and child, in order to vertically group hospital specialties under a single medical and administrative management. Its efficient distribution is based on four key elements: a remarkable reception hall, a center for orientation and distribution of flows; an interior street linking the poles, punctuated by patios; a single technical platform; and a centralized, automated logistics platform in the basement. The first HQE-certified hospital in France, the new building features innovative solutions in the quest for lightness, notably in the design of its prefabricated wood-frame facades.

HQE certification
Winner of the 2006 MOP competition, Groupe-6 is currently building the Nouvel Hôpital d’Orléans (NHO), the largest hospital project in France. Beyond its scale, the NHO bears witness to an ambition for quality: it has obtained HQE® certification for the “program” and “design” phases, the THPE label and is aiming for HQE® “realization” certification. It will be delivered in 2015. The first section, handed over in May 2013, will house follow-up care, a central kitchen, residential accommodation and day nurseries, and will be operational in the autumn.
The NHO is a landmark with an identifiable ellipse at the southern entrance to the conurbation, and a structuring facility for the rapidly evolving La Source district. The project features a compact morphology. Divided from east to west into 5 main accommodation areas (medium-stay, high-consultation medicine, medicine, surgery and mother-and-child), its organization enables hospital specialties to be grouped vertically under the same medical and administrative management, and offers a clear layout.
Structured into distinct units (five accommodation areas, including an elliptical mother-and-child unit serving as a focal point and landmark entrance, and a technical platform), with a central street almost 400 m long on two levels, punctuated by patios and skylights, the NHO is designed over seven levels, five of which are superstructured. The architecture is horizontal, animated and fragmented, avoiding the block effect, to better interact with the low-rise buildings of the surrounding residential areas. At the heart of this triangle, an orchard-garden will take its place on the site of the former hospital, once demolished. Its facades, alternating solid and glazed panels set on a prefabricated wood-frame base, are enlivened by the reflections of acid-colored glass brise-soleils. These colors punctuate the avenue de l’hôpital and enhance the architecture of the NHO. Their design, based on a prefabricated wood-frame solution, required Atex and fire safety approvals during the design and construction phases.