A new interdisciplinary mother-and-child centre with 55 beds has been planned at Friedrichshafen Hospital as part of plans to take the 1970s hospital building on into the future.

On an almost square area of ground with a central inner courtyard, the basement houses staff changing rooms, areas for archives, and the technical operations centre. The ground floor of the new building has its own generous entrance area, doctors’ surgeries and out-patient departments. The first floor caters for the nursing care of babies and children and the floor above is a maternity unit:

New mothers, the delivery room, and room for surgical procedures – all on the same floor as the operating theatres.

Connected to the central hospital building and flanking the main entrance and forecourt, the building continues the urban tone of the surrounding buildings and follows the existing building lines. The basement is undercut to create a distinctive main entrance.

The facades, with their metal cladding, continue the horizontal line of the existing building and the ribbon glazing is colour-accentuated by introducing cement fibre plates.