The project of the Comprehensive Transplant Centre aims to provide an example of good practices both in terms of medical architecture and with regard to the insertion of a volume of contemporary architecture in a historical, heterogeneous site.

The objectives pursued by the project promoter are the following:

• Develop a comprehensive transplant centre that provides a wide range of high-quality organ transplant services, accessible to all patients;
• Build of a new hospital, whose design complies with international standards in the field, a building in which the professionalism and expedience of the medical staff are supported by the specialized design;
• Create of a space centred around the patient's needs, using both the finishes and the relationships between spaces to create a therapeutic environment, capable of reducing the stress generated by the medical intervention;
• Complete the existing built tissue with a contemporary urban insertion, seeking to mediate the current dysfunctions identified both within the University Hospital Complex, and in the adjacent area.

The Contracting Authority is the Cluj City Council. 

The competition is organized by the Order of Architects in Romania, in accordance with the Competition Rules of the International Union of Architects - UIA - and the provisions of the International Recommendations for Architecture and Urban Planning Competitions adopted at the General Conference of UNESCO of 1956, revised on 27 November 1978, in compliance with the provisions of the legislation in force regarding the award of public procurement contracts.

The Design Competition is a public, single-stage competition, open to Romania, all countries of the European Union, of the European Economic Area, and to the Swiss Confederation.