Hospitals

Glass spheres in the rooms allow patients with limited mobility to experience changing light and weather conditions and provide special views of the sky overhead.

Plexiglas connecting elements for the oak staves of the facade reflect the sun.

On the ground floor, the therapeutic facilities are grouped around inner courtyards; the upper floor houses the patients’ rooms with views of the surrounding area.

Section and floor plan of a patient’s room with veranda, wetroom, entrance and spherical skylight.

In the pool, dots of light coming through roof apertures and the reflection of the water create a ceiling of sparkling stars.

Behind the country pavilion-style exterior lies an interior of varied courtyards.

The patients’ rooms, with bath, indoor pool, veranda, public zones and stairs.

The patients’ rooms, with bath, indoor pool, veranda, public zones and stairs.

An extension on the roof in 2019, 17 years after the project opening, provides new day clinic facilities.

Giving form to the hospital on a plot that has no specific shape. Fixed building elements – columns, cores, and courtyards – are arranged to provide flexibility.

A single three-story structure: two for treatment areas and offices, and bedwards on top. Courtyards connected along a ‘main street’ on all 3 floors provide intuitive wayfinding, daylight and nature throughout the large building.

56 clinics and functional units are organized like neighborhoods along the ‘main street’, similar in scale to the Niederdorf main street in Zurich’s medieval old town.

A mixed-material structure combining concrete, wood, glass and plants. A full-scale mockup to study the two-storey concrete frame with wooden infills and patient rooms on top with a large window and an individual roof.

Patient rooms with wooden ceilings and floors, with a sofa bed for parents.

The Building for Laboratory, Teaching, and Research is for collaboration. Labs wrap around a sky-oriented, five-story high atrium that provides natural light through an oculus to the flexible agora for teaching and events on the ground floor.

A single, horizontal building connected to the landscape. Two-storey plinth with all treatment areas, topped by a roof garden and a two-storey ribbon of wards.

The hospital functions like a city. A network of internal public streets and service shortcuts link the most crucial functions.

Patients, visitors, and staff arrive at the center of the hospital. A central hall links to the four primary vertical circulation nodes and stretches out between large, curved courtyards providing continuous connection to nature and daylight. Axial symmetry in treatment areas allows for functional flexibility and clear orientation.

The wards are arranged along the perimeter, forming the large central garden. The curved geometry reduces the size of the hospital and gives the impression of a smaller, more human scale, pavilion-like building.

Functional and urbanistic composition of three building components: plinth, cube & pavilion. The plinth embraces the hospital garden.

The plinth building addresses the various scales of its complex urban surroundings. The cube transforms a traffic junction into a “Research Square.” The pavilion on the roof for nephrology.

The entrance hall extends from the street to the hospital garden. Daylight and views ease orientation.