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Eingangsbereich: „erdende“ Bodenfarben sollen Stress reduzieren. • “grounding” floor colours reduce stress Terrasse vor dem „Dorfplatz“: Blick in den Garten des RBK • Terrace: view of the RBK garden

Positive Stimulierung: „Dorfplatz“ – Gemeinschaftsraum mit Blick ins Freie und angeschlossener Terrasse • Positive stimulation: “village square” – common room with a view of the outdoors and adjoining terrace

T wenty percent of all patients have to pass through the intensive care unit during years of professional experience as a health-care nurse in an internal-medicine inten-
sive care unit, the design combines functional efficiency with the principles of healing
their hospital stay. That is 1.56 million people nationwide every year. Approxi-
mately half of internal-medicine patients are sedation-free, meaning that no sedati- architecture that are becoming more and more essential in designing hospitals today.
ves or anaesthetics are administered. The trend in medicine is increasingly moving A new intensive care unit is being built in the new Robert Bosch Krankenhaus in the
towards sedation-free intensive care units, since long, deep sedation phases can have Burgholzhof district of Stuttgart, which will serve as a model for other intermediate
a negative effect on the recovery process. Thus, the design of a healing environment care and intensive care units. The aim of the project is to enable a new spatial interac-
with a high quality of stay plays a decisive role, especially for this vulnerable group of tion between the three central players in everyday hospital life: medical staff, patients
patients. In the intensive care units at Robert Bosch Hospital, patients with life-threa- and their relatives. The spatial organization is clearly oriented towards the processes
tening conditions or those who have undergone complicated surgical procedures are and needs of these groups. In the centre is a “care block” designed to keep distances
treated and monitored using state-of-the-art medical equipment. Intensive care the- short, facilitate communication and provide orientation.
rapy is provided in close cooperation between the anaesthesia and surgical intensive
care departments, the internal medicine departments and the surgical departments Healing begins with orientation, calm and encounter
at Robert Bosch Hospital. The project whose title is translated as “Ideal type of inten-
sive-care unit?” which is the topic of Janina Lamm’s master’s thesis aims to present a At the heart of the design are jointly used areas that serve as places for encounter,
forward-looking design for the construction of a new intensive care unit that focuses exchange and brief relaxation. Patients who are transferred to the intensive care unit
on the needs of patients, their relatives and the entire medical staff. Based on seven first enter a spacious, light-flooded communal lounge with a view of the outdoors and

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