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Entwurf • Design ingenhoven associates, Düsseldorf
Bauherr • Client Lanserhof Group, Hamburg
Standort • Location Am Lanserhof 1–8, List/Sylt
Nutzfläche • Floor space 19.500 m 2
Foto: Jim Rakete
Fotos • Photos A. Haiden, Wien (1, 2); HGEsch, Hennef (3–6)
Mehr Infos auf Seite • More info on page 142

MEDICAL SPA LANSERHOF

IN LIST ON SYLT

Can a luxury resort be designed in harmony with nature?
In accordance with their supergreen maxim, ingenhoven
associates have balanced comfort with ecological requi-
rements: The office realized their Medical Health Resort
for the Lanserhof Group with 55 rooms and 5,000 squa-
re metres of Medical Spa as a continuum of house and
dune with Europe’s largest thatched roof on Sylt.

L anserhof is one of Europe’s most modern health centres in the
medical spa sector. With the three other locations Tegernsee, Lans
and London – all built by ingenhoven associates as well – the health
resort has been a leader for 35 years and stands for innovative vital
medicine, prevention and health regeneration, a symbiosis of traditio-
nal naturopathy and the latest medical findings. The 20,000 square-
metre ensemble of the Lanserhof Sylt, including its interior design
and exclusively using health and ecologically tested materials, was
constructed in close coordination with the nature conservation and
Geschützte Wellnessbereiche: außen und innen • Protected wellness areas: outside and inside. monument protection authorities. The design analogy to the medical
concept is called reduction, offers the eye peace and concentration
Jedes Gästezimmer besitzt eine eingeschnittene Loggia. • Each guest room has an incised loggia. instead of opulence and décor, and finds its colour palette consistently
in the dune landscape: beige, white and grey combined with wooden
flooring and generous, curved all-round glazing demonstrate contem-
porary elegance and define luxury today. The ground floor compri-
ses the actual medical spa with the reception, restaurant, clinic and
treatment rooms. The basement organizes fitness, climbing wall, spa,
bathing area and an indoor and outdoor saltwater pool. Both attic
floors provide space for the guest rooms – each with its own cosy
sheltered and private outdoor area: loggias cut into the roof in each
case shield against strong winds and, at the same time, offer an unob-
structed view of the sea or the dunes. The central spatial element
that ingeniously connects all levels like a surf is the imposing stair
sculpture made of steel and oak: staged in an overhead space remi-
niscent of the inside of an upturned ship’s hull, it “flushes” guests
from the underground car park via the reception and the medical area
into their rooms. The rates alone will no doubt banish the majority of
readers to being merely onlookers, but anyone who is contemplating
the shape of the thatched roof with its overhanging, gently swinging
eaves when passing by will be reminded of the graphic of the hats in
The Three Robbers drawn by the artist Tomi Ungerer, a fact that makes
me extremely happy to just stand outside.

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