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Process

Located in a cluster of health care institutions in Zurich, the University Children’s Hospital includes two very different, complementary buildings: a pediatric hospital on the south plot and lab building on the north plot.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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Drawings

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Team

Project Team
Michael Schmidt (Associate, Project Director)
Mark BĂ€hr (Associate, Project Manager Acute Hospital)
Birgit Föllmer (Associate, Project Manager Building for Research and Teaching)
Alexander Franz (Associate, Project Manager Building for Research and Teaching)
Andrea Erpenbeck (Associate, Project Architect)
Martin Fröhlich (Associate, Project Director)
Michael Drobnik (BIM Manager)
José Aguirre
LuĂ­s Alves
Jens Andresen
Gabriella Antal
Michael BĂ€r (Associate)
Laurenz Batka
Michal Baurycza
Nathalie BirkhÀuser
Filip Bolt
Sandro Camichel
Guanlan Cao
Axel Chevroulet
Benedict Choquard
Otto Closs
Victoria Collar Ocampo
HernĂĄn Concha Emmrich
Joao Da Silva Moreira
Marc Anton Dahmen
Eva Danwerth
LĂ©ane Dott
Nicholas Dunkel
Silja Ebert
Ela Elmas
Santiago Espitia Berndt (Associate)
Alessandro Farina
Maik Fischer
Daniel GarcĂ­a Moreno
Kim Gartmann
Noémie Girardet
Irene Giubbini
Borja Goñi
Arnaud Greder
Daniel Grenz
Gustava GrĂŒntuch
Lars Hagen
Christian Hahn
Kasper Hansen
Philipp Henestrosa
Anna HernĂĄndez GarcĂ­a
Yuko Himeno
Ryoko Ikeda
Soraya Isak
Vasileios Kalisperakis
Marina Karova
Changsup Stephan Kim
Daniel Koo
Melisa Köseli
Sahng O Lee
Stella Lembcke
Matthias Leutert
Ruizhe Liang
Gia My Long
Theo Mayer
RaĂșl Mera (Project Architect)
Laila Miarelli
Klaus Molterer (Project Architect)
Miquel Montoya Moya
Neda Mostafavi
Stefan van Nederpelt
Don Nguyen
Anja Oertel
MĂČnica Ors Romagosa (Project Architect)
Lukas Otrzonsek
Aldis Pahl
Jakob Elias Passernig
Vesna Petrovic
Fabio Prada
Corsin Raffainer
Timon Rajmon
Francisco Ramos Ordóñez
BĂĄlint RigĂł
Giulio Rigoni
Dominic Roth
Pascal Ryser
Ladina Schmidlin
Anna Schneibel
BalĂĄzs Schrammel
Sarah Söhnel
Magdalena Stadler
Maximilian Steverding
Paula Strunden
Jan Szonert
Milou Teeling (Project Architect)
Emma Thomas
Ali Uzun
Yves Wanger
Patrick Welss
Mirco Wieneke
Niklas Winkler
Yaobin Yuan
Joanna Zabinska

Facts

Client
Kinderspital ZĂŒrich – Eleonorenstiftung, Zurich, Switzerland; Martin Vollenwyder (PrĂ€sident Stiftungsrat); Heini Brugger (Vorsitz Baukommission); Françoise de Vries (Vorsitz Steuerungsausschuss); Thomas Hardegger (Gesamtprojektleiter, KOMOXX GmbH Planung & Projektmanagement); Marcel MĂŒller (Gesamtprojektleiter, Novaloxx LLC)
Planning
Architect: ARGE KISPI HdM Basel Ltd. / Gruner AG, Basel, Switzerland
Project Architect: Herzog & de Meuron Basel Ltd, Basel, Switzerland
Site Architect: Gruner AG, Basel, Switzerland
Structural Engineering: ZPF Ingenieure AG, Basel, Switzerland
Civil Engineering: EBP Schweiz AG., Zurich, Switzerland
Landscape Architect: August + Margrith KĂŒnzel Landschaftsarchitekten AG, Binningen, Switzerland
Landscape Architect (Realisation): Andreas Geser Landschaftsarchitekten, Zurich, Switzerland
HVAC Engineering : Gruner AG, (Gruner Gruneko), Basel, Switzerland
Electrical Engineering: Amstein + Walthert AG, Zurich, Switzerland
Building Automation & Smart Building: Jobst Willers Engineering AG, Zurich, Switzerland
Plumbing Engineering: Ingenieurbuero Riesen AG, Bern, Switzerland
Cost Consulting: Gruner AG, Basel, Switzerland
Specialist / Consulting
Fire Protection Consulting: Gruner AG, Basel, Switzerland
Facade Consulting: Pirmin Jung Ingenieure AG, Rain, Switzerland
Facade Consulting: Buri Mueller Partner GmbH, Burgdorf, Switzerland
Building Physics Consulting: Kopitsis Bauphysik AG, Wohlen, Switzerland
Medical Planning: Evomed AG, Duebendorf, Switzerland
Medical Planning: Institut fuer Beratung im Gesundheitswesen, (IBG), Aarau, Switzerland
Laboratory Planning: Laborplaner Tonelli AG, Gelterkinden, Switzerland
Office Consulting: Kinzo Architekten GmbH, Berlin, Germany
Climate Engineering: Transsolar Energietechnik GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany
Sustainability Consulting & Environmental Engineering: Basler & Hofmann West AG, Ingenieure, Planer und Berater, Zollikofen, Switzerland
Sustainability Consulting & Environmental Engineering: DB-B Dieter Bauer Beratungen, Bern, Switzerland
Gastronomy Consulting: Creative Gastro Concept und Design AG, Hergiswil, Switzerland
Logistics Consulting: AS Intra Move UG, Rheinfelden (Baden), Germany
Lighting Consulting: LichtKunstLicht AG, Bonn, Germany
Signage Consulting: Integral Axel Steinberg ZĂŒrich GmbH, Zurich, Switzerland
Audio Visual Consulting: RGBP AG, Thalwil, Switzerland
Traffic Consulting: Gruner AG, Basel, Switzerland
Traffic Consuting: moveIng AG, Basel, Switzerland
Door Specialist: TeKoSi AG, Thayngen, Switzerland
Gestaltungsplan: Planwerkstadt AG, Zurich, Switzerland
Construction Geologist: Dr. Heinrich Jaeckli AG, Zurich, Switzerland
Building Data (Acute Hospital)
Site Area: 33,250 sqm, 357,880 sqft
Gross Floor Area (GFA): 79,215 sqm, 852,610 sqft
Gross Volume (GV): 346,307 cbm, 12,226,200 cft
Building Footprint: 16,375 sqm, 176,260 sqft
Building Dimensions: Length 200 m, Width 110 m, Height 12-19 m
Number of Levels: 3 + 2 underground
Building Data (Building for Research & Teaching)
Site Area: 13,400 sqm, 144,240 sqft
Gross Floor Area (GFA): 16,101 sqm, 173,280 sqft / 930 sqm, 10,010 sqft (Tunnel)
Gross Volume (GV): 66,342 cbm, 2,342,850 cft / 3,417 cbm, 120,670 cft (Tunnel)
Building Footprint: 2,010 sqm, 21,640 sqft
Building Dimensions: Diameter 55.4 m, Height 30 m
Number of Levels: 7 + 2 underground
Use / Function (Acute Hospital)
Functional Areas: ∌48
Rooms: ∌2,300, of which 1,500 are for medical use
Spatial Program: ∌15,000 sqm (Examination & Treatment), ∌9,000 sqm (Care), ∌1,200 sqm (Administration), ∌7,600 sqm (Infrastructure), ∌1,900 sqm (Restaurant and Reception), 4,800 sqm (Underground Parking)
Beds: 200 (Total), 51 (IPS/Neonatology), 114 (Bedwards)
Operating Rooms: 6
Corridor Length: ∌5.5 km combined
Car Parking: 341
Bicycle Parking: 220
Sustainability: SGNI Platin (Swiss Sustainable Building Council)
Use / Function (Building for Research & Teaching)
Laboratories: ∌2,300 sqm (Diagnostic), ∌6,300 sqm (Research)
Teaching: 1 lecture theatre (320 seats), 2 seminar rooms (100 seats), Agora as an interconnectable event venue (670-1,200 seats)
Study & Offices: ∌80 workstations, ∌200 temporary workstations
Bistro: ∌70 seats open to the neighbourhood
Bicycle Parking: 130
Sustainability: SGNI Platin (Swiss Sustainable Building Council)
Links
www.kispi.uzh.ch

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