The site plan in Aalto’s competition winning entry (AAM 50-24).
The sections and the main entrance façade in Aalto’s competition winning entry (AAM 50-29).
AALTO’S ENTRY FOR THE PAIMIO COMPETITION The task in the competition was to design a sanatorium building for 184 patients in four separate wards. In addition to these, the building was to have a common library, reading room and dining hall for the patients, as well as a kitchen. Necessary staff accommodation, bathrooms, disinfection facilities and a ward for epidemic diseases were also to be included. Housing was needed for the doctors as well as other staff and separate buildings were to be built for the bakery, laundry and sauna.94 According to the competition brief, the patients’ rooms for a total of 184 persons were to vary from two single rooms in a ward to four-bed rooms, so that there would be 25 m3 space for each patient. These rooms and functions, which were required in the competition brief, can be seen in Aalto’s entry. He had divided some other functions slightly differently, as the mortuary, laundry, bakery and garage for three cars were suggested to be combined in a single maintenance building.95 Aalto placed some functions practically on the ground floor below the kitchen, but the mortuary he placed in its own building, located quite remotely. The main building in Aalto’s entry was a four-storey building plus 94 95
Arkkitehti 3/1929, 42. Varsinais-Suomen tuberkuloosiparantolan rakennuspiirustuskilpailun ohjelma (competition brief) 1928, 7.
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