Negev Health City

“A hospital in a garden and a garden in a hospital”

Farrow Partners, in collaboration with Rubinstein Ofer Architects, have been selected to design the master plan for the largest and most technologically advanced medical centre in Israel, the first new facility in more than thirty years. The Sheba-Negev Hospital will be 300,000m2 in size and hold 600 patient beds. The green-site project is South of Jerusalem in a semi-desert area, part of a new biotech and residential neighbourhood in the city of Be’er Sheva.

Hospitals are the largest consumers of water of any building type, by double. Our approach is to harvest select portions of the hospital’s wastewater, recycle and treat it for use in creating the largest new public horticultural garden in the country, focused on semi-desert plants.

The garden is a continuation of a new proposed Central Park of the biotech/residential district. We have lifted the garden up and draped it over the central ambulatory building and main entry, thereby creating a ‘backyard’ to the hospital. The adjacent OR/DI base and inpatient units then overlook and access the new botanical gardens as they connect to the main ambulatory building. At the top of the central botanical park, is a large shade canopy, common terrace, the main restaurant of the hospital and other amenities. The garden will create access to green space for not only the medical centre, but also residents of the entire city, causing health for the entire community.

On the east edge of the main ambulatory building, is the main boulevard of the medical centre campus. This central thoroughfare of the hospital master plan features the public tram and new specialty institutes, including birthing/women’s health center, cancer center, and rehabilitation facilities.