The current situation in the world related to the pandemic and the new rules of social distancing allowed us to identify the main problems of modern formation of the maternity institutions architectural environment and showed the need for their spatial modernization, taking into account the flexible planning structure. The article discusses individual approaches to creating a comfortable therapeutic environment that promotes social distancing. An «architectural and spatial approach» is proposed, which changes the boundaries of spaces in the following areas of the maternity facility: «entrance», «reception of women in labor», «area for relatives and hospital visitors», «delivery of newborns», «consultations» in the Polyclinic Department of the maternity hospital. The second, «environmental approach», is based on changing the scheme of communication and environmental situations in the internal environment of the maternity facility: the interior environment turns from public to autonomous.
Keywords: maternity hospital, perinatal center, therapeutic environment, social distance, adaptation, modernization