The hospice or the so called 'residential centre for palliative treatments' is a structure meant to assist people affected by terminal diseases. Its rule in Italy is not as well known and consolidated as in other European nations; even its own architectural peculiarities are still subjects of work in progress researches and tests, as far as they concern spaces and sites. Despite its limited dimensions and its scarce advanced technologies, the hospice has its own specific features, that during the programming and planning stage require the same approaches and operative modalities usually required for the planning of the generally defined 'complex buildings'. This subject is not easy: unfortunately we don't have enough consolidated examples to look at. The models we have are just very few compared to the real dimension of the question and they have been thought and developed in different times and contexts according to approaching philosophies that sometimes are even in contrast with each other. Even its own name is uncertain : people tend to use different terms with very different meanings. Some call it 'Hospice', other 'Home'. In the delicate research field where we need to conciliate what is 'on behalf of the user' with many other issues coming from many other subjects, all with their own needs not so evident, the work methodology, interdisciplinary indeed, has privileged the exchange with the users and the hospital team worker through investigations on the spot, interviews and abstracts. Focusing on the public building field, some criteria has been defined in order to support projects and to test the already existing structures. Such standards are guide-lines and help to fix the site features, the dimension criteria, the spaces' characteristic. In order to facilitate the involvement of the hospital team workers in the planning stage, the book embodies written text, graphics and photos.
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