University Children’s Hospital Zurich / Herzog & de Meuron

Curated by Hadir Al Koshta

Architects: Herzog & de Meuron
Area: 46650 m²
Year: 2022
Photographs:Herzog & de Meuron
Structural Engineering: ZPF Ingenieure AG
Civil Engineering: EBP Schweiz AG
Landscape Architect: August + Margrith Künzel Landschaftsarchitekten AG
HVAC Engineering: Gruner AG
Electrical Engineering: Amstein + Walthert AG

Category: Healthcare Architecture, Hospital
Client Representatives: Martin Vollenwyder (Chairman of the Foundation Board), Heini Brugger (Chair Building Commission), Françoise de Vries (Chairman of the Steering Committee), Thomas Hardegger (General Project Manager - KOMOXX GmbH Planung & Projektmanagement), Marcel Müller (General Project Manager - Novaloxx LLC)
Partners: Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, Christine Binswanger (Partner in Charge)
Project Team: Michael Schmidt (Associate, Project Director), Mark Bähr (Associate, Project Manager Acute Hospital), Birgit Föllmer (Associate, Project Manager Building for Research and Teaching), Alexander Franz (Associate, Project Manager Building for Research and Teaching), Andrea Erpenbeck (Associate, Project Architect), Martin Fröhlich (Associate, Project Director), Michael Drobnik (BIM Manager), Judith Abele, Valentin Abend, Ömer Acar, José Aguirre, Luís Alves, Jens Andresen, Gabriella Antal, Michael Bär (Associate), Laurenz Batka, Michal Baurycza, Nathalie Birkhäuser, Filip Bolt, Sandro Camichel, Guanlan Cao, Axel Chevroulet, Benedict Choquard, Otto Closs, Victoria Collar Ocampo, Hernán Concha Emmrich, Joao Da Silva Moreira, Marc Anton Dahmen, Eva Danwerth, Léane Dott, Nicholas Dunkel, Silja Ebert, Ela Elmas, Santiago Espitia Berndt (Associate), Alessandro Farina, Maik Fischer, Daniel García Moreno, Kim Gartmann, Noémie Girardet, Irene Giubbini, Borja Goñi, Arnaud Greder, Daniel Grenz, Gustava Grüntuch, Lars Hagen, Christian Hahn, Kasper Hansen, Philipp Henestrosa, Anna Hernández García, Yuko Himeno, Ryoko Ikeda, Soraya Isak, Vasileios Kalisperakis, Marina Karova, Changsup Stephan Kim, Daniel Koo, Melisa Köseli, Sahng O Lee, Stella Lembcke, Matthias Leutert, Ruizhe Liang, Gia My Long, Theo Mayer, Raúl Mera (Project Architect), Laila Miarelli, Klaus Molterer (Project Architect), Miquel Montoya Moya, Neda Mostafavi, Stefan van Nederpelt, Don Nguyen, Anja Oertel, Mònica Ors Romagosa (Project Architect), Lukas Otrzonsek, Aldis Pahl, Jakob Elias Passernig, Vesna Petrovic, Fabio Prada, Corsin Raﬀainer, Timon Rajmon, Francisco Ramos Ordóñez, Bálint Rigó, Giulio Rigoni, Dominic Roth, Pascal Ryser, Ladina Schmidlin, Anna Schneibel, Balázs Schrammel, Sarah Söhnel, Magdalena Stadler, Maximilian Steverding, Paula Strunden, Jan Szonert, Milou Teeling (Project Architect), Emma Thomas, Ali Uzun, Yves Wanger, Patrick Welss, Mirco Wieneke, Niklas Winkler, Yaobin Yuan, Joanna Zabinska
Competition Project Team: Mark Bähr (Project Manager), Jason Frantzen (Associate, Project Manager), Alexandria Algard, Maximilian Beckenbauer, Blanca Bravo Reyes, Alexander Franz, Ondrej Janku, Christoph Jantos, Johannes Rudolf Kohnle, Severin Odermatt, Raúl Torres Martín, Mika Zacharias
Landscape Architect Realization: Andreas Geser Landschaftsarchitekten
Building Automation And Smart Building: Jobst Willers Engineering AG
Client: Kinderspital Zürich - Eleonorenstiftung
Site Architect: Gruner AG
Plumbing Engineering: Ingenieurbüro Riesen AG
Cost Consulting: Gruner AG
City: Zürich
Country: Switzerland

Text description provided by the architects. The new University Children's Hospital lies in Zürich-Lengg, at the foot of a hill known as Burghölzli. It is adjacent to other hospital buildings from several eras and is the largest facility for children and adolescents in Switzerland. It consists of two buildings: the acute-care hospital and the research and teaching facility. The acute-care hospital to the south consists of a three-story concrete frame with intricate wooden infills that blend into the landscape. The interior functions like a town: the medical specialties are neighborhoods with squares and connecting streets. On each of the three floors, a central main street runs past various green courtyards that provide orientation and bring daylight into the building. The patients' rooms on the roof are like individual cottages.