TC 147- PMMT. Healthcare architecture

TC 147 presents the work of PMMT Arquitectos in the field of healthcare architecture, offering a precise view of a specialised practice that responds to the profound transformations of today’s healthcare system. Through a selection of projects developed over the last decade, this issue understands the hospital not as a closed typology, but as a complex infrastructure in constant evolution.

Rather than following conventional approaches, PMMT proposes an architecture based on organisational systems, flows and processes, where functional efficiency and adaptability become the true drivers of the project. In this context, the concept of the parametric hospital emerges as a key tool: an open model capable of growing, transforming and responding to new medical, technological and social demands.

This approach results in an architecture of hyper-flexibility, prepared to absorb change over time without losing coherence. Far from rigid solutions, these projects develop structures capable of being reconfigured, ensuring their relevance within an especially dynamic environment.

At the same time, this technical dimension is balanced by a clear commitment to humanisation. The incorporation of patios, the careful use of natural light and the design of more welcoming routes place the user at the centre, understanding the hospital not only as a space of efficiency, but also as an environment of care and well-being.

The methodology developed by PMMT also demonstrates a remarkable ability to adapt to different geographic and cultural contexts, revealing an architecture that, through a systematic logic, is able to respond to diverse conditions without losing its identity.

As is customary in TC Cuadernos, the issue is supported by carefully curated graphic documentation —plans and details— that allows the reader to understand each project from within its internal logic, revealing a way of designing in which architecture is understood as a precise system at the service of society.