Infectious Diseases Pavilion

In April 1940, the hospital received permission to build an annex to the Infectious Diseases Pavilion, which was given a new wing and a southeast wing was added to the existing wing with two shallow bays, so that the floor plan of the building became L-shaped.
 

Further expansion occurred in the late 1940s. Architect Jan Rejchl was first approached to continue expanding the hospital’s capacity. Later these projects were transferred to the nationalized Stavoprojekt company. In addition to the new pediatric clinic, where the departments of pediatric infection and pediatric surgery were concentrated, and the completion of the Antonín Fingerland Pathology Pavilion, Rejchl also designed the modification and extension of the Infectious Diseases Pavilion. He added one more storey and designed a roof terrace, while the secondary, south-eastern wing was enlarged and supplemented with residence pavilions accessible from individual inpatient rooms. The rooms were lit by large windows. After WWII, Rejchl established cooperation with the Brno Technical University, where he also taught. At this time, Bedřich Rozehnal, who was intensively involved in the modernization of the hospital pavilions, took up an important position at the university. The result was the Children’s Hospital in Brno – Černé Pole (1947–1948). Rozehnal also wrote a methodical publication Cesta k řešení nemocniční otázky města Brna (The Way to Solve the Issue with Hospitals in the City of Brno, 1949), which was also appreciated by Le Corbusier. Rozehnal’s principles of spacious and well-lit bed areas with pavilion balconies were also developed by Rejchl in the design of the Hradec Králové Infectious Diseases Pavilion. The extension expanded the bed capacities, medical and quarantine facilities and operating capacities.
 

The art historian Marie Benešová considers Rejchl’s completion of the Infectious Diseases Pavilion to be one of the finest examples of the late functionalism and the so-called international style in Hradec Králové; along with Rozehnal’s project in Brno, it is an example of the late avant-garde efforts to build a comfortable, operationally newly organized and technically well-equipped hospital pavilion in the Czechoslovakia.
 

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