They said the two buildings did not have that many qualities and labeled them “too old” for any potential. They presumed they were lacking a real purpose in the highly complex mesh of Basel Hospital. They also assumed that having them torn down could naturally free up some space for better rooms and smarter designs to emerge. And I thought: should we reconsider? This story begins with two neighbors from the 40s; the first one, by H. Schmidt, stretches along the garden connecting the patients of Basel Hospital. The other, by F. Beckmann, was always turned towards education and research, a few steps away from the city’s medical school. The project intends to seal a reciprocity between these two “neighbors”. This encompasses both their respective rehabilitations as well as common extension, conceived as a hyphen to facilitate their dialog. The first building aims to welcome postoperative patients, with special care given to design qualities of resting rooms and commons for reinsertion. The focus is put on the physical and mental rehabilitation of patients transitioning from the hospital environment, not yet ready for complete autonomy. The second building proposes to accommodate all talents essential for such a health machine to operate: its nurses, doctors, psychologists, med students, but also social assistants, cleaning and administrative employees. Such a diversity of profils implies a wide panel of households, an element closely inspected in the building’s domestic typologies.