The task was to design a completely new hospital (approx. 900 beds) offering maximum medical care on the southern edge of Minden on an area of land not yet connected up to any utilities.

The LUDES entry, which came fourth, proposed a large-scale construction in the shape of a raised clinical block with three comb-shaped centres leading off from it.

The hospital is linked up via a double corridor: one side for patients, the other for visitors. This resolves the apparent contradiction

 of an urban-looking hospital in a “green setting” with a loose, low construction and the demand for optimised “clinical pathways” with closely-integrated structures orientated very much to hospital procedures.

The parent and child centre flanks the central entrance in the shape of an autonomous, head-on building.

The logistic functions are grouped together in a supply and disposal centre linked to the hospital by an automatic goods transporting system.