Nyt Hospital Nordsjælland Shortlisted Proposal / BIG

As we announced last week, BIG+WHR+Arup has been selected as one of three design teams to participate in the second phase of the design competition for Nyt Hospital Nordsjælland, a 124,000 square meter acute hospital in Hillerød, north of Copenhagen. BIG’s proposal for the new hospital, serving over 300,000 people, seeks to "preserve the site’s existing natural features while optimizing the efficient hospital machine."

Read on for more from the architect's description...

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Courtesy of BIG

The new hospital, merging three hospitals into one, will be built on a former hunting area characterized by rolling hills, many small ponds and one of the largest forests in the country. BIG’s proposal consists of eight interlocking playfully composed rings, which encourage maximum interface between the wards and creating spacious courtyards that give the hospital a sense of community. The flat green roof responds to the natural topography, and the rings vary in height to create access to green surfaces. As a result, each patient room has a relationship either to an internal landscaped courtyard or to the surrounding woodland and greenery.

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Courtesy of BIG

Bjarke Ingels stated: “Studies show that daylight and views to green areas and plants has a healing effect on bed lying patients. One of our guiding principles has been to further build on the area's historic landscape features and to create a smooth transition between inside and outside. The façade is designed with integrated planters to bring nature right to the patient’s bedroom window. The landscape is in this way always present.”

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Courtesy of BIG
Nyt Hospital Nordsjælland Shortlisted Proposal / BIG - Facade, Windows
Courtesy of BIG

Instead of creating linear circulation corridors, the hospital is built up around a central node which allows access to all the departments. To optimize the flows, the ground floor is kept free from bed transportation making the foyer a welcoming public space.

Nyt Hospital Nordsjælland Shortlisted Proposal / BIG - Facade, Garden
Courtesy of BIG

“BIG’s ideas, together with the large green spaces and green surfaces, mean that we really can talk about a healing hospital in the best possible interpretation of the concept”, the jury commented last Friday.

  • Architects

  • Creative Director

    Bjarke Ingels
  • Partners-in-Charge

    Andreas Klok Pedersen
  • Project Leader

    Hanna Johansson
  • BIG Team

    Lucian Racovitan, Taylor McNally-Anderson, Mathias Bank, Zoltan David Kalaszi
  • WHR Architects Team

    Anthony Haas, Stephanie Schwindel, Akshay Sangolli
  • ARUP Team

    Sandra Akmansoy, Francesco Petrella, Ambrogio Angotzi, Tiago Oliviera, Mark Chown, Rudi Scheuermann
  • Hospital Consultant

    ArchiMED
  • Cost Consultant

    Davis Langdon
  • Landscape Architect

    Man Made Land
  • Project Year

    2013
  • Photographs

    Courtesy of BIG
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Cite: Karissa Rosenfield. "Nyt Hospital Nordsjælland Shortlisted Proposal / BIG" 27 Aug 2013. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/421002/nyt-hospital-nordsjaelland-shortlisted-proposal-big> ISSN 0719-8884

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