A team of Herzog & de Meuron and Vilhelm Lauritzen Arkitekter has won a competition to design an acute care facility for the New North Zealand Hospital in Denmark.
Planned to be located north of Copenhagen in Hillerød, the new 124,000m² hospital will have 24 medical departments and more than 660 beds.
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The winning team beat six other practices, including C.F. Møller and BIG.
Herzog & de Meuron’s design brings together all the hospital’s functions under one organic building, shaped like a clover leaf.
The four-storey hospital, which is expected to open in 2020, will take the form of a pavilion in the middle of a forest south of Hillerød.
The winning design promotes the crossing of conventional operational borders and the facility will be conceived of as a horizontal building organically reaching out into the open landscape.
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By GlobalDataHerzog & de Meuron said the building’s soft, flowing form binds several components of the hospital.
The company said it is a low building that fosters exchange between staff and patients, and it has a human scale despite its very large size.
Herzog & de Meuron said: "The choice of the jury is a seminal sign to architects and the entire health-care sector; low, flat, hospital buildings can be better integrated in the city or the countryside than the high-rises structures that were often realised in the last decades."
Image: New North Zealand Hospital. Photo: courtesy of Herzog & de Meuron.
