The subject of the competition was the construction of two new intensive care units in the form of an extension to the SHG Kliniken Völklingen. LUDES won the competition with the 1st prize.
The winning design provides a clearly and logically structured new building alongside the heterogeneous and nested existing structure of the SHG Kliniken Völklingen. The new building has a slender transom shape with a three-flush floor plan, which has proven itself for larger and modern intensive care units. On the southeast side, parallel to the existing buildings, the new building seeks a direct connection to the central emergency room.
A potential later extension in a staggered back building section, an extension of the empty floors or a future extension of the surgical department (e.g. in the form of a bridge between the intensive care building and the existing surgical wing) were taken into account in the design.
The intensive care units (cardiological intensive care unit and operative intensive care unit) with 20 and 22 beds each are arranged one above the other. Below there is one floor with associated technology and adjoining rooms. The patient areas are positioned in the southwest in a ring around a core zone with functional and ancillary rooms. Rooms with development and logistics functions as well as administrative rooms are located in the northeast. This results in short distances for the staff and plenty of daylight for the patient rooms.
The design envisages a particularly high proportion of single rooms with 23.6 to 27.5 square metres. The double rooms are spacious. With beds facing each other, they can be subdivided into single rooms at a later date and take into account the trend towards more therapeutic measures at the bedside. The aim is to bring the quality of accommodation in double rooms as close as possible to that of single rooms.
The winning design concept reacts to the principle of “healing environments”, which is the subject of numerous studies and investigations, especially in intensive care facilities, in the lighting and acoustics as well as in the arrangement of the patient rooms. They prove that the spatial-architectural environment can have positive effects on the healing process of patients.
The subject of the competition was the construction of two new intensive care units in the form of an extension to the SHG Kliniken Völklingen. LUDES won the competition with the 1st prize.
The winning design provides a clearly and logically structured new building alongside the heterogeneous and nested existing structure of the SHG Kliniken Völklingen. The new building has a slender transom shape with a three-flush floor plan, which has proven itself for larger and modern intensive care units. On the southeast side, parallel to the existing buildings, the new building seeks a direct connection to the central emergency room.
A potential later extension in a staggered back building section, an extension of the empty floors or a future extension of the surgical department (e.g. in the form of a bridge between the intensive care building and the existing surgical wing) were taken into account in the design.
The intensive care units (cardiological intensive care unit and operative intensive care unit) with 20 and 22 beds each are arranged one above the other. Below there is one floor with associated technology and adjoining rooms. The patient areas are positioned in the southwest in a ring around a core zone with functional and ancillary rooms. Rooms with development and logistics functions as well as administrative rooms are located in the northeast. This results in short distances for the staff and plenty of daylight for the patient rooms.
The design envisages a particularly high proportion of single rooms with 23.6 to 27.5 square metres. The double rooms are spacious. With beds facing each other, they can be subdivided into single rooms at a later date and take into account the trend towards more therapeutic measures at the bedside. The aim is to bring the quality of accommodation in double rooms as close as possible to that of single rooms.
The winning design concept reacts to the principle of “healing environments”, which is the subject of numerous studies and investigations, especially in intensive care facilities, in the lighting and acoustics as well as in the arrangement of the patient rooms. They prove that the spatial-architectural environment can have positive effects on the healing process of patients.