HeYou Hospital Listed on Fortune China Best Design List

The Fortune China Best Design List aims to identify and honor outstanding designs that address real human needs, solve complex problems, demonstrate commercial potential, or bring lasting impact to social development. The 50 design concepts on the list are all starting points for new products and industrial value chains, reflecting the designers' humanistic care and social responsibility.

The project originated from the philanthropic vision of Midea founder He Xiangjian to “benefit the hometown and give back to society.” Funded by Midea Holdings, it is located in the core of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area — Foshan Sanlongwan Science and Technology City, with a total construction area of 580,000 square meters.

The medical complex represents the future trend of hospital development, advocating for a more harmonious integration of medical architecture and urban life. Based on this, HeYou proposed the concept of the “Bay Area Health Living Room.” The main hospital buildings (HeYou Hospital, HeYou Zhizhen Hospital, etc.) were designed by the top-tier design team BAI Design International Limited (UK). The design concept shifts from the traditional “treatment-centered” approach to a “health-centered” one, committed to highlighting the importance of humanistic care and customer experience, creating a healing internal spatial experience.

The exterior of HeYou Hospital's main building draws inspiration from the characteristics of Shunde's Lingnan water towns. The main facade unfolds gently along the winding southern water surface in the purest and most transparent natural manner. The exterior uses low-transmittance, low-heat-transfer-coefficient insulating glass, combined with low-energy materials such as adjustable tensioned membranes and roof light sensors, equipped with intelligent ventilation systems and high-efficiency solar/photovoltaic integrated curtain walls, creating a green and intelligent medical benchmark.

The interior of the hospital's main building cleverly utilizes natural lighting and ventilation. By creating semi-outdoor landscape spaces such as enclosed courtyards, sky gardens, and art corridors, sunlight, air, and greenery are introduced into the interior, allowing the building to grow from the site. With a green rate of up to 30%, the entire hospital resembles a large urban garden, effectively reducing stress for patients and medical staff, realizing the vision of symbiosis between humans and nature.

HeYou Hospital is also the first private hospital in China to apply a grid shell structure to its main building. Its unique appearance will become a distinctive landmark in the medical and health field.

HeYou's “Bay Area Health Living Room” concept highlights publicness and artistry, earning unanimous recognition from the architectural community. The project has successively won multiple world-class architectural awards, including the 2021 German Iconic Awards · Innovative Architecture, the 2021 World Architecture News Awards Silver Award in the Future Health category, and the 2021 World Architecture Festival Awards.  

Since the project commenced construction on November 13, 2020, all work has progressed smoothly. To date, the main structures of Phase I buildings, including the administrative office building, the outpatient and inpatient complex of HeYou Hospital, and HeYou Zhizhen Hospital, have been topped out, with decoration, mechanical and electrical engineering, and finishing works completed successively. In August 2023, the administrative office building was put into use. HeYou Hospital and HeYou Zhizhen Hospital are scheduled to officially commence operations on June 28, 2024.

HeYou Hospital is being established as a non-profit tertiary general hospital. It will focus on building six COE Centers of Excellence: the Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Brain Science and Neurology Center, the Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Center, the Health Management Center, the Cardiovascular Medicine Center, and the Women's and Children's Medicine Center. It will set up 51 departments, striving to become an international-standard, domestically first-class, Guangdong-characteristic, non-profit, comprehensive, and international hospital serving the Greater Bay Area and extending its reach both domestically and internationally.

HeYou Hospital's outpatient and inpatient services will be fully integrated into the medical insurance system, committed to providing high-quality, affordable, and inclusive excellent medical services to better alleviate the burden of medical expenses on the public. All future operating surpluses of the hospital will be used for the hospital's own development, medical research, and social welfare.