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Entwurf • Design Herzog & de Meuron, CH-Basel
Bauherr • Client Kinderspital Zürich – Eleonorenstiftung
Standort • Location Lenggstraße, CH-Zürich
Nutzfläche • Floor space 79.215 m 2
Fotos • Photos Maris Mezulis
Mehr Infos auf Seite • More info on page 126
CHILDREN´S HOSPITAL
IN ZÜRICH
„Architektur kann zur Heilung beitragen.“ A stay in hospital is never voluntary and certainly not
pleasant. Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron are
Jacques Herzog convinced that a healing environment can contribute to
recovery and have focussed on this topic over the last
20 years. After six years of construction, they present
their answer in the Zurich Children’s Hospital, which
conveys a sense of security, warmth and confidence.
S witzerland’s largest hospital for children and young people is
located at the foot of the Burghölzli hill in Zurich-Lengg in the
immediate vicinity of other hospital buildings from different eras and
comprises two buildings, the acute-care hospital and the building for
research and teaching. The former component is the subject this arti-
cle is focussed on, as the three-storey concrete-skeleton structure with
filigree wooden façades is a indeed prime example of how architec-
ture can have a healing effect – if it is approached in the right way,
of course. Gently nestled into the tree-lined landscape, the acute-care
hospital functions like a small town: the medical areas are the neigh-
bourhoods, so to speak, which are connected by streets and squares.
A gate leads to the entrance hall via a circular courtyard planted with
Grundriss Erdgeschoss • Ground floor plan trees. The restaurant and therapy areas with their own gardens are
adjacent, while the “main street” leads to highly frequented examina-
tion- and treatment areas. On the first floor there are further parts of
the polyclinic, the hospital school, pharmacy and as well as an out-
ward-facing office landscape with around 600 workstations. A dense
network of staircases allows quick vertical connections between the
individual areas. The top floor, the quietest area of the acute hospital,
accommodates children and adolescents who have to stay in hospital
overnight or longer. Each of the 114 rooms is designed as a small woo-
den house with its own roof, where parents can spend the night with
their children – with privacy and a view of the greenery. The stagge-
ring of the patient rooms and the different slopes of their roofs make
each individual room recognizable: the individuality of each patient
is expressed with the small house in an elementary, understandab-
le and legible form. The little houses have nothing in common with
conventional hospital rooms in terms of their homely furnishings: the
furniture and materials are not only beautiful to look at, but also ple-
asant to touch. The careful use of wood and selective art installations
also ensures a clear, memorable orientation. The result is a holistically
Grundriss Dachgeschoss • Attic floor plan conceived, functional, calm and yet multifaceted building.
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