The new neurorehabilitation centre is integrated in a strong, functional, cohesive unit with the existing Glostrup Hospital. It is intended to create a smooth patient journey with high-quality patient experiences, organisation and professional services. The centre offers 125 ward beds for rehabilitation of patients with severe brain injuries and spinal cord injuries. In addition, it has training facilities equipped with advanced rehabilitation technology, a training pool, and a multi-functional training hall as well as outpatient clinics and sections dedicated to research.
 
The centre has been designed based on the concept of a rehabilitation universe that combines state-of-the-art knowledge on healing architecture with highly specialised physical frameworks. Located to the west of the existing hospital, it is situated in green parkland -  and appears as two white buildings emerging from the countryside. The base anchors the centre in the park, and its structure ensures flexibility and elasticity for the services it provides.
 
In the middle of the centre, the base rises to a vertical central block that forms a framework around the centre's community. The base and central block house common functions. This is where the patient arrives. The central block, with its large glass areas providing views out over the park, functions as the centre's visual and organisational anchor point. From the central block there is easy access to all of the centre's floors and services.
 
Contact with the countryside is a common thread running through the design of the centre. It provides the patients, relatives and personnel unique contact with the nearby outside areas and with the recreational qualities of the surrounding parkland. All services thus have a relationship with green landscapes – either as views out over the park's large green areas or to more intimate, landscaped gardens in and around the building.

Based on a sophisticated organization and further development of the clinical structure, the vision behind the new acute care centre is to create a holistic hospital construction, where functional and sensuous solutions are combined into a whole. Thus the goal is to create an efficient and flexible hospital with a human presence and strong architectural statement.
 
In order to create an efficient workflow for the staff and a secure flow of patients, the acute care centre is divided into two tracks: a public track containing each department’s reception and waiting areas, as well as a screened department track providing the framework for the departments on each floor. In this way, the transportation of lying patients is screened from the public zone, which not only provides an effective workflow for the staff, but also secure and respectful environment for the patients.
 
The new acute care centre is six storeys and is placed right next to the existing hospital. Building wings stretch towards the landscape to the east to take advantage of the views of the city, the lake and the green open spaces. Inspired by the unique location on the range of hills in the heart of the city, the interaction with context as a recurring theme in the design of the new acute care centre which offers patients, relatives and personell a captivating view of the surroundings from each floor of the building.
 
The close relation to the surroundings is reflected in the many terraces, roof gardens and courtyards that provide direct access and visibility to the green, recreational outdoor spaces on all floors. In addition, the new main entrance and lobby offer a unique view of the lake and creates an entirely new arrival experience to the hospital.

The New Hospital in West (DNV-Gødstrup) is situated near Herning, Denmark. The vision is to push the potential of modern healthcare architecture by offering therapeutic and operational efficiency in the absolute elite. At the same time, it is designed to being perceived as poetic, friendly and accommodating by the patients, the relatives and the staff.
 
To ensure an efficient workflow the healthcare architecture project provides close contact between the wards and professional specialties. The patient has thus a short distance to diagnostic imaging, ambulant treatment etc. but generally the hospital provides space for the doctor to come to the patient instead of vice versa.
 
By optimising the transport routes, the healthcare architecture project provides the framework for an efficient and dynamic hospital, where the patient is at the centre, and where the proximity to the professional specialties ensures a quick and accurate diagnosis.
 
Based on evidence-based design, the healthcare architecture project enhances the relation between inside and outside by integrating the surrounding landscape as a vital part of the building design. The extensive, Jutlandic landscape thus forms the inspiration for the project’s tactile use of the materials, which calls to mind a homely atmosphere instead of the clinic atmosphere of a traditional hospital.
 
The close contact with the extensive Jutlandic horizon has resulted in a clear concept for the future healthcare arhitecture. As a natural extension of the landscapes horizontal lines, the projects is rooted in a spacious base that includes outpatient clinics, diagnostic imaging, surgery wards and offices, while the medical wards are located on top of the base as light horizontal units.