The project competition is intended to lay the foundation for a high-quality urban development and functional new building project. LUDES Architects won 2nd place from 41 applicants.

Local, high-quality health care in sparsely populated rural areas is a particular challenge from an economic point of view. What is needed here is a hospital in which, despite its small size, differentiated medical care is possible at a high level at reasonable costs.

The goals that LUDES has set are:

• Goods-focused building structures with short distances
• Room organization strictly based on the workflow with optimal functional processes
• An interdisciplinary organization with synergies in terms of staff and use of space
• Spatial summary of the functional points to be operated over 24 hours
• Cross-sectoral use of resources for outpatient and inpatient as well as emergency and elective patients

To implement these goals, LUDES proposes a compact, cubic structure, which is accessible through a central vertical joint differentiated according to user groups, which combines the functions while taking optimal connections in the respective floors into account.

General practitioners’ practices, outpatient clinics and emergencies as public-intensive uses are located on the ground floor. The cross corridors lead past the two inner courtyards, providing orientation facilitated. The surgery rooms with sterilization, a day clinic and IMC are arranged functionally on the first floor.

The second floor houses the nursing department and physiotherapy. Administration and third-party use follow on the fourth floor. The helicopter landing pad, with lift access, is on the roof. The staff cloakrooms, workshops and building services can be found in the basement.

Excerpt from the jury’s report: “The “Belvedere”-project is characterized by the imposing presence of the new hospital and is characterized by a high level of architectural design. The authors succeed in making an interesting and noteworthy proposal. “