A&E unit

The acute care centre is spread across more than 25,000 square metres and encompasses both a new A&E department and a number of remodelled facilities. The centre aims to futureproof the Viborg Regional Hospital which currently serves patients from the areas of Viborg, Silkeborg and Skive. In addition to the new A&E department and the conversion of existing facilities, the centre also boasts a new main entrance, foyer, auditorium, an expansion of the hospital’s surgery department and of its diagnostic imagining and clinical physiology departments as well as an extension of its outpatient clinics and wards which are now all set up as single-bed rooms – a change which ensures better dialogue and trust between patients and staff and more space for visiting relatives.

Warm materials such as wood, natural stone and tile are all central to the design of the acute care centre. This is especially true of the foyer, which is the space that gives most patients and relatives their first experience of the hospital. Beyond that, the centre also takes advantage of the sloping ground on its site, offering rooftop terraces on certain floors and green rooftops on others in order to further enhance the hospital’s recreational appearance, while possibly also promoting biodiversity and the local absorption of rainwater.