Nichtoffener Wettbewerb | 04/2014
New North Zealand Hospital / Nyt Hospital Nordsjælland
Finalist
Architektur
Architektur
Bauingenieurwesen
sonstige Fachplanung
Davis Langdon - an AECOM Company
Architektur
Landschaftsarchitektur
Erläuterungstext
General Landscape
Like a medieval castle in the open field needs cultivated land around to exist, the new Hillerød Hospital with its city-like scale is embedded in a formalized and utilized landscape. Its design concept follows three main principles: the resemblance of the historical landscape constitution, to incorporate the site seamlessly into its surrounding and to generate a counterpart in which the hospitals building mass is smoothly embedded.
Before turned to farmland, North Sealand used to be the favorite hunting grounds for the Danish Queens and Kings in the last centuries and was mainly dominated by vast forests. The remains of those can still be found north of the hospital site. Our proposal takes this history as a point of departure to develop the concept for the hospitals open spaces. Soft hills, many small ponds and one of the few danish forests are the surrounding on which the new site is blended in. The adjacent forest on the north eastern limit of the property is seamlessly continued into the hospitals open spaces, but altered in its rhythm and planted in a 8 x 7.5m grid, that is oriented to match with the buildings main lines and thus structuring the hospital compounds. This forest is gradually faded out in its density from north east to south west to blend in to the neighboring farm land. The site becomes the intermediary of both. The choice of tree species perfectly mirrors the indigenous danish forest mixture of beech, oak, maple, ash and pine tree. Together with the hospital buildings the over 1000 newly planted trees create a critical mass towards the massive building volumes and are able to relate the site to those scales. Soft hills and valleys on the site echoes the surrounding topography with its smooth movements and ensures easy way-finding through the site and creates visual relations between the site and its surrounding. The topography also reduces the visual impact of the parking areas by lowering them by 1m. Every now and then a tree is planted on a group or on single parking plots, so that the loose grid of trees can be retained through to whole site. Following the system of small ponds in the surrounding landscape, this theme is also implemented in the sites storm water management. Four medium sized ponds with a permanent water level provide the desired capacities for centennial rain events but also contribute to the overall recreational aspect of the Hillerød hospital park. Following the topographic movements an organically shaped path system is complementing the more pragmatically oriented road structure and creates a park like character with many sitting possibilities and nice vistas.
Roof
As the park of the hospital campus are two interwoven landscape typologies of the ancient forest and the nowadays open farmland, also the concept for the roof design is establishing a language of a clear typological landscape. Danish coastal vegetation system with its two lines of grass dunes and the bushier hinterland is the template on which the vegetational system of the roof gardens is developed. Each one of the rectangular roofs is treated separately, but equally. The coastal sequence provides a gradient of plant heights which is applied linearly from the outermost corner of each roof towards the connection point with the next higher roof. Through this, the gradient is communicating between the different roof height levels.
A sunken, small scale path system is oscillating through the dune vegetation landscape and creating micro situations for patients, visitors and staff. All vegetation is displayed in planter boxes, which are 25cm high on the open landscape facing side of the path and have sitting height towards the courtyard facing side of the path to ensure privacy for the wards in the courtyards.
Courtyards
The courtyards are the central open spaces for the hospital and represent the liveliness within the city-like building structure. Independently from the surrounding environments each of them formulate their own worlds and references. Following the color coding from the interior way-finding concept they present themselves visually strong and multi-thematically with meeting rooms, sauna, chapel, sports and an auditorium. Each courtyard is marked by one species of trees with either strong flower aspects and / or significant coloring of the leafs and recognizable habitué. While the inner courtyards can be used as alternative interior connections and work as an extended lobby, the outer courtyards become part of the exterior park system and get connected through the topography and path systems.
Like a medieval castle in the open field needs cultivated land around to exist, the new Hillerød Hospital with its city-like scale is embedded in a formalized and utilized landscape. Its design concept follows three main principles: the resemblance of the historical landscape constitution, to incorporate the site seamlessly into its surrounding and to generate a counterpart in which the hospitals building mass is smoothly embedded.
Before turned to farmland, North Sealand used to be the favorite hunting grounds for the Danish Queens and Kings in the last centuries and was mainly dominated by vast forests. The remains of those can still be found north of the hospital site. Our proposal takes this history as a point of departure to develop the concept for the hospitals open spaces. Soft hills, many small ponds and one of the few danish forests are the surrounding on which the new site is blended in. The adjacent forest on the north eastern limit of the property is seamlessly continued into the hospitals open spaces, but altered in its rhythm and planted in a 8 x 7.5m grid, that is oriented to match with the buildings main lines and thus structuring the hospital compounds. This forest is gradually faded out in its density from north east to south west to blend in to the neighboring farm land. The site becomes the intermediary of both. The choice of tree species perfectly mirrors the indigenous danish forest mixture of beech, oak, maple, ash and pine tree. Together with the hospital buildings the over 1000 newly planted trees create a critical mass towards the massive building volumes and are able to relate the site to those scales. Soft hills and valleys on the site echoes the surrounding topography with its smooth movements and ensures easy way-finding through the site and creates visual relations between the site and its surrounding. The topography also reduces the visual impact of the parking areas by lowering them by 1m. Every now and then a tree is planted on a group or on single parking plots, so that the loose grid of trees can be retained through to whole site. Following the system of small ponds in the surrounding landscape, this theme is also implemented in the sites storm water management. Four medium sized ponds with a permanent water level provide the desired capacities for centennial rain events but also contribute to the overall recreational aspect of the Hillerød hospital park. Following the topographic movements an organically shaped path system is complementing the more pragmatically oriented road structure and creates a park like character with many sitting possibilities and nice vistas.
Roof
As the park of the hospital campus are two interwoven landscape typologies of the ancient forest and the nowadays open farmland, also the concept for the roof design is establishing a language of a clear typological landscape. Danish coastal vegetation system with its two lines of grass dunes and the bushier hinterland is the template on which the vegetational system of the roof gardens is developed. Each one of the rectangular roofs is treated separately, but equally. The coastal sequence provides a gradient of plant heights which is applied linearly from the outermost corner of each roof towards the connection point with the next higher roof. Through this, the gradient is communicating between the different roof height levels.
A sunken, small scale path system is oscillating through the dune vegetation landscape and creating micro situations for patients, visitors and staff. All vegetation is displayed in planter boxes, which are 25cm high on the open landscape facing side of the path and have sitting height towards the courtyard facing side of the path to ensure privacy for the wards in the courtyards.
Courtyards
The courtyards are the central open spaces for the hospital and represent the liveliness within the city-like building structure. Independently from the surrounding environments each of them formulate their own worlds and references. Following the color coding from the interior way-finding concept they present themselves visually strong and multi-thematically with meeting rooms, sauna, chapel, sports and an auditorium. Each courtyard is marked by one species of trees with either strong flower aspects and / or significant coloring of the leafs and recognizable habitué. While the inner courtyards can be used as alternative interior connections and work as an extended lobby, the outer courtyards become part of the exterior park system and get connected through the topography and path systems.