Kreiskrankenhaus Schotten Gesundheitszentrum Wetterau gGmbH

Kreiskrankenhaus Schotten
Gesundheitszentrum
Wetterau gGmbH
District Hospital Schotten
Modern Architectural Solutions for
Effective Planning of Costs, Resources and
Energy
Person-Centred Care
EuHPN
Health Facility Fact File Series
No. 8
1/3/2013
Health Facility Project Name
Kreiskrankenhaus Schotten
Gesundheitszentrum WetteraugGmbH
District Hospital Schotten
Country
Germany
Location
Kreiskrankenhaus
Schotten
Wetterauer Platz 1
D-63679 Schotten
Tel.: 06044 61-0
Fax: 06044 61-5520
Population served
ca. 40 km from Frankfurt am Main
Population of Wetteraukreis 298 429 (31 December 2011)
Type of healthcare facility
District Hospital, offering:
• Internal Medicine
• Surgery and Traumatology
• Trauma center
• Oncology
• Hematology
• ENT
Type of construction
New build and refurbishment
Construction start date
Groundbreaking ceremony took place on 10 September 2009.
Construction completion date The overall project has two phases. The first was completed with
an an official opening in May 2011. The second phase involves the
demolition of the upper floors of the existing building and its
reconstruction until 2013.
Gross floor area
For the new building:
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Useable Area: 4 050 m2.
Gross Floor Area: 9 060 m2
Gross Volume: 34 500 m3
For the rebuilt space:
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Project, design and
construction cost
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Useable Area: 1 120 m2
Gross Floor Area: 2 2750 m2
Gross Volume: 9.900 m³.
Euro 25 million total construction costs.
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Cost per m2
Euro 2 200.
Total bed numbers
140 beds; also outpatient facilities.
240 doctors, nurses and administrative staff; approximately 5 000
inpatients and 7 000 outpatients per year.
Departmental information
Five-storey building, cozy two-bed patient rooms with shower
bathrooms. The rooms are designed to maximize light and views.
Modern diagnostic and treatment facilities in connect directly to
the operating theatres and the emergency department. There is a a
large, interdisciplinary intensive care unit, attractive lab
workstations, space for physical therapy, a new patient and
employee cafeteria and a spacious entrance.
The ground floor houses the department of internal medicine, as
well as intensive care with up to ten beds and a recovery room with
direct access to the operating theatres.
On the garden level of the building there are new laboratories and
physical therapy for patients with access to the park.
The project also incorporates a generously glazed cafeteria and
outdoor terrace.
Client/owner
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Gesundheitszentrum Wetterau gGmbH
Chaumont-Platz 1
D-61231 Bad Nauheim
Tel.: 06032 702-0
Fax: 06032 702-2452
E-Mail: info@gz-wetterau.de
http://www.gz-w.de/gzw2/gzw/index.html
Client/owner contact
Wolfgang Potinius, Managing Director of GZW gGmbH
Capital procurement route
Public (government) funding: Euro 21 000 000
Client funds: Euro 4 200 000
Project management
Operator:
Health Centre Hospital gGmbH Wetterau Schotten | Wetterauplatz
1 | 63679 Schotten
Builder:
Clinics of the Wetteraukreis Friedberg-Schotten-Gedern gGmbH |
Ockstädter Strasse 3-5 | 61169 Friedberg
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Project Management:
BAUWERT Projekt Consult GmbH | SiegCarré I Am Bahnhof 23 I
57072 Siegen
Authority:
Regierungspräsidium casting department 32 | Landgraf PhilippPlatz 1-7 | 35390 Giessen
Architects
woernerundpartner | Hanauer Landstrasse 194 | 60314 Frankfurt
am Main
Contractor
Schwarzbart + Partner | Im Vogelsgesang 4 | 60488 Frankfurt am
Main
Planning
Planner - outdoor facilities:
Neuhann & Kresse Free Landscape Architects | Landwehrstraße 2 |
64293 Darmstadt
Planner - Building Services:
Süß Consulting Engineers Ltd | Lina-Ammon-Str. 15 | 90471
Nürnberg
Planner – Medical Services:
mtp Planning Society for Medical Ltd. | Hanauer Landstrasse 194 |
60314 Frankfurt am Main
Key facts
The Wetterau gGmbH is the operator of the district hospital
Schotten. The philosophy of the operator demands modern
architectural solutions, resource, energy and cost-effective
planning, and buildings with people-centered dimensions and
aesthetics.
The exterior and interior design of the new building reflect the
beautiful location on a hill in the woods. The site situation, the
benefits of the topography, the cubic volume of the building, the
view and orientation, materials and colors and the design of the
open area gave rise to a highly attractive structure: a threedimensional, visible expression of the operator’s vision.
The five-storey building, with its three levels of care, was placed on
the southern slope of the landscape. Its architecture uses the
sloping terrain situation for a light-filled building with pleasant
terrace and park access.
In correspondence with the natural environment the shell of the
house was developed from narrow elements in aluminum. In its
various shades of green the façade pays tribute to the situation and
atmosphere of the wooded site and reflects them back through its
vertical arrangement. Apart from its own aesthetics, this design of
the façade offer a second advantage: a protective shell for the
rooms behind and the entire building.
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Just as the façade’s spring colors correspond with the surrounding
forest, the interior design follows the idea to copy seasonal colours
from the outside world through the choice of materials and colour
palettes.
The arrangement of the hospital’s functions corresponds to the
standards of modern work processes. In the entrance hall on the
ground floor the reception and the information point of contact for
patients and visitors are located at a central location. The lifts are
located close by. For orientation there is a color coding system that
is designed differently on different levels. It copies the colors of the
natural surroundings of the house, level by level, in the changing
colors of the seasons.
An existing building north of the new building was demolished in
favour of a new forecourt with parking and road access. This
rearrangement means that the entrance of the new hospital could
develop on ground level, leading into a spacious entrance hall.
In the wards the different concepts – expressed through a
combination of equipment, colours, materials, lighting and
decoration – address the needs of sick people to feel protection
and security, and to ensure the active recovery. Each patient room
gains access to light, air and landscape views through use of floor to
ceiling windows.
Nurses and doctors work at ergonomically designed, attractive
workplaces. None of the rooms lack natural light or outdoor views
since all rooms inside the building are oriented towards a centrally
located courtyard.
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Autumn 2011
Design 2009
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Design 2009
Development of the facade
Autumn 2011
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Interior design
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2013 development
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