Subject of the diploma project is the Pananeion Municipal Hospital of Heraklion of Crete, which is in the area inside the Enetic Walls. The building was made in 1905 and was used as the town’s hospital. In 1970 the hospital’s installation were removed in a larger space. The building was abandoned and gradually ruined. In 2004 was proposed as a scheduled building and its destruction was seld by action.
The project’s goal is the study of the elaboration for the restoration and the new use of the building. The study has two parts: the substantiation study and the proposal. At the substantiation study was made the building’s impression, the architectural analysis and the registration of the elements as well as the identification with old pictures and previous studies. The substantiation study includes the study of its history, the cell’s pathology and the construction faces. The proposal turns up from the elements of the study. The building’s new use is a centre of abused mothers and children, which provides services of hospitalization and psychological support of abused mothers and children, surgeries for the necessary exams, rooms special designed for the hospital personnel and the visitors. The proposal’s goal is the elevation of the buildings meaning for the town and the restoration of the new use based at the town needs and the building’s history and meaning.