AWARD YEAR
2015
CATEGORY
Body
GOALS
Good Health & Well-being
KEYWORDS
health, healing architecture
COUNTRY
Denmark
DESIGNED BY
Effekt
Realdania
Kræftens Bekæmpelse
WEBSITE
http://www.effekt.dk/liv
LIVSRUM - A Cancer Counselling Center
A new cancer counselling center - designed as a cluster of seven small houses
The vision is to create a homely, open and welcoming house. To create a space that is more home than an institution. A modern and yet familiar house that provides a clear alternative to the sterile and functional hospital environment.
Rather than creating a traditional uniform building the functions are shaped into 7 small houses promoting human scale, richness and variation in the overall spatial experience.
Similar to monasteries the careful layout features interlocking rooms that wrap around two central courtyards - one where you sit and meditate in silence and one that promotes physical activity and social interaction. Each house has its own specific program and together they form a coherent sequence of different spaces which include functions such as library, kitchen, conversation rooms, lounge, workshop, gym and wellness area.