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BUILDING PROJECTS
KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SWEDEN
Working together for patients
The substantial new hospital north of Stockholm embodies collaboration – between the public and private sector, academia and healthcare, and two of Sweden’s leading architectural firms. James Parker reports
ecently opened after a 12 year gestation in the north of Stockholm, the new Karolinska University Hospital presents itself more as an entire urban block than a stand-alone building. The client was unusual for a major healthcare project, being the County Council, but the extent to which the project knits into the urban fabric made its perspective key to creating a successful masterplan. As well as creating a colossal 330,000 m2
R building with 629 individual
patient rooms and 35 operating theatres, the client’s overarching aims also included architectural quality, attractive environments for patients, and a building with a clear civic presence.
Most importantly, perhaps, the new building reflects the client’s strong focus to transform its healthcare approach, away from supporting traditional medical priorities, to a very different model that reworks hospital plans around the patient.
Project drivers
The new building greatly enhances the physical integration between the world-renowned medical university, The Karolinska Institute, and the hospital, helping university research staff and hospital departments work together. The other central reason for the project is that the region’s demographics are changing fast. Stockholm’s population is expected to increase by 350,000 between 2010 and 2020, with numbers of children and elderly
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growing disproportionately fast, as life expectancy continues to increase. Many Swedish hospitals were planned and constructed in the 1970s, and are inadequate in terms of responding to rapid developments in medical technology, procedures and treatments. The client also wanted to support interdisciplinary activities, i.e. exchange of ideas between medicine, research and education in the life sciences. Combining this with the flexibility needed for the inevitable future changes would be no small challenge for the project team.
Sustainability was another key driver, and the project has been awarded LEED Gold, as well as Swedish Environmental Classified Building Gold. Energy consumption is less than half of a standard hospital, with 99.7 per cent of its energy coming from renewable sources, such geothermal heating – in addition it’s connected to a district heating network.
Site & masterplan
The project has been described by one of the two architecture practices involved, Tengbom, as “the single largest engine behind the development of Hagastaden.” This sees the council harnessing the reputation of the Karolinska Institute, hospital, and related local enterprises to create a new neighbourhood that sits between Stockholm and the outlying suburb of Solna.
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