The subject of this competition is the new building of the Asklepios Hospital in the Altona district in Hamburg. This building replaces the existing hospital buildings on the current clinic site. Preservation of the monumental surrounding buildings is necessary; they get another function when the new hospital is ready.

For the new hospital, LUDES proposes a horizontally positioned volume that is orthogonally aligned to the existing structure. The ward block is grouped in a rectangular frame, which creates an intriguing dialogue with the existing building, without affecting its monumental significance and character.

Via the entrance hall, which is pushed through in an east-west direction and is flanked by the cafeteria, the other service facilities, the conference centre and the silent room, the visitor reaches the central corridor in the north-south direction. This corridor has four vertical circulation nodes, by which all the functional areas of the hospital can be reached. The distribution, of all the functions on different floors, follows the principles of unbundling the internal traffic flows.