Surrounded by the historic brick buildings, the health centre will be located on Peter Bangs Vej in Frederiksberg, Denmark. The health centre will form an angle with balconies opening the centre up towards the atrium. The existing brick façades will make up the other two walls in the glass-covered atrium, which will filter the daylight and draw it far into the house.
 
The health centre will thereby be built alongside the existing brick buildings around the atrium, which will become the Deaconess Foundation’s new meeting place with a cafeteria, café, meeting rooms and space for exhibitions and larger events.
 
The atrium has been designed as an open, public space, while the healthcare specialties will be distributed around the atrium in the health centre and the existing brick buildings. The medical specialties consist of private general practitioners, psychologists and other healthcare specialties, exercise facilities, a Living Lab for the testing of welfare technology and much more.
 
Inspired by the core values of the Deaconess Foundation, the tree has been used as a metaphor for the health centre. Drawing inspiration from the tree, the health centre has been designed as a warm, friendly building that embraces people with many different needs, but who are brought together under one roof, under one treetop, that gathers the many functions and makes the Deaconess Foundation visible to the public.
 
Towards Peter Bangs Vej, the health centre’s upper floors will be enveloped by a light screen with a pixellated subject, reminiscent of the tree, and in materials that harmonise beautifully with the historical brick buildings. In the evening, the exterior will change character as the interior light penetrates the façade’s openings and illuminates the area around Peter Bangs Vej.

The expansion of Örebo University Hospital is characterised partly by an urban context and partly by the creation of healing and highly specialised conditions for both patients and staff. As well as wards, operating theatres and specialist same-day surgery services distributed throughout the new building, there are also a new lobby and main entrance, which face Södra Grev Rosengatan.
 
The expansion of Örebo University Hospital is a fine balance between the hospital's existing buildings and the surrounding, lower brick buildings. In order to create a smooth transition between the city and the hospital, the expansion includes an open reception square, which creates a safe and welcoming setting for visitors.
 
This comfortable and welcoming reception context is enhanced by the layout of the new expansion, in which three staggered, L-shaped buildings scale down the existing building structure, create optimal daylight and pleasant views, and provide space for green courtyards facing Södra Grev Rosengatan. This invests the expansion with a comb-like structure, which, externally, gives the surroundings a recreational quality, while internally creating a healthy and safe environment for the patients.
 
The comb-like structure also helps to optimise the staff’s working procedures. Manageable spatial sequences, short transport routes and logical placement of central functions facilitate working relationships within and across departments. Meanwhile, patient and staff flows are separated, thus supporting an excellent and efficient working environment.

The basic vision of the project is to perpetuate the hospital's existing qualities, while creating a new, future-proof hospital, in which the patient is at the centre. This vision is reflected, for example, in the diverse heights and lengths of the new ward buildings, which create an elegant interplay with the existing hospital building. This both preserves and develops the character of the hospital. Together with the ward buildings, angled grouping enhances the hospital's relationship to its setting and scenic surroundings.
 
In parallel with the hospital's present connecting building, the project also includes a new connecting building, which provides efficient flow and easily negotiable routes for staff, patients and relatives. The new connecting building is also designed to meet patient and family needs in terms of both privacy and social contact.
 
This interaction between privacy and social contact is one of the project's main priorities. The aim is to offer patients and relatives varying degrees of social interaction: ranging from single-bed wards and secluded alcoves to open corridors and common dining rooms. The project also facilitates a wide range of activities in the green courtyard and the new lobby, where it is possible to organise exhibitions or other events. 
 
The new main entrance helps both to enhance the hospital's character and to provide a warm welcome for visitors and patients. The openness and choice of materials of the main entrance also create cohesion between the arrival area, the connecting building and the new ward buildings. This finds particular expression in the façades, on which perforated steel plates and a varied lattice structure create different degrees of transparency and variable natural light in the course of the day.

The vision behind the new Østfold Hospital is to show the way for the future hospital architecture. The hospital is thus designed as a robust, flexible and compact building which expresses a clear contact with the surrounding landscape.
 
The layout of the hospital is based on its unique location and the area’s topographic features. The hospital architecture is therefore a direct fusion of architecture and landscape as it utilises the natural terrain incline with a view to optimising the different functions’ relative positions as well as the spatial and logistical context.
 
The terrain’s effect on the hospital architecture creates variation and experience in the building complex, whereby the architecture and landscape are mutually reinforcing. For example, the hospital is constructed exclusively with private bed rooms, where the majority of the private rooms are oriented towards the landscape, while the planning grid provides adequate building volumes and distances.
 
Furthermore, the psychiatric functions are integrated into the overall hospital architecture, such that the mentally ill patients can, as far as possible, be treated on an equal footing with patients with somatic illnesses. A visionary, architectural fusion of psychiatric and somatic functions that satisfy several basic needs, since psychiatric patients often also have a somatic disease.