[Architecture and epidemiology in gynaecology and obstetrics (author's transl)].

The authors, who are doctors, architects and hospital engineers, made every effort to work out the architectural rules that were imposed on them at one and the same time by the epidemiology, the humanization of the work and spread in a specialty that is becoming more and more specialised and most attractive; having consultations between the disciplines take place, as they have done when a new isolated building for the department of gynaecology and obstetrics was being planned. An original study was carried out using information about the flow rates of people and the coefficients of interest in the siting of the various departments on small models, and this allowed a spatial tridimensional programme to be worked out so that the structure could become something like an ideal building in which the different needs of the functional element, the human element, the preventive epidemiological element and also the economic and budgetary possibilities could come together. The thoughts and suggestions of the authors concerned with this building should help to develop new concepts in hospital architecture which are of interest for gynaecologists and obstetricians.