‘Livsrum’ Counseling Centre is designed as a transparent and free-flowing building that comprises a range of different programmatic and spatial experiences. This allows for a high level of social interaction amongst visitors, caregivers, and counselors while also respecting the need for privacy and autonomy required within a hospital environment. The building, located between the hospital area and an old villa neighborhood, is flanked on each of its longest sides by high-traffic streets. The main challenge, therefore, was to negotiate quiet and calm spaces within the boisterous context. EFFEKT’s solution, the office responsible for the realization of the project, was to arrange the facility as a small village of seven houses, framing at its center two green courtyards. This serves the project in two ways. Rather than designing the facility as one large structure, EFFEKT planned a series of domestic-scale buildings with gabled roof profiles blending the facility to its context while also forming a sound-free recreational and meditative space at its core. "The varying roof heights in conjunction with a precise selection of materials equipped the building with its own unique architectural character and typology; clearly distinguishing it from the surrounding hospital buildings," said the architects. In terms of material, ...
‘Livsrum’ Counseling Centre is designed as a transparent and free-flowing building that comprises a range of different programmatic and spatial experiences. This allows for a high level of social interaction amongst visitors, caregivers, and counselors while also respecting the need for privacy and autonomy required within a hospital environment. The building, located between the hospital area and an old villa neighborhood, is flanked on each of its longest sides by high-traffic streets. The main challenge, therefore, was to negotiate quiet and calm spaces within the boisterous context. EFFEKT’s solution, the office responsible for the realization of the project, was to arrange the facility as a small village of seven houses, framing at its center two green courtyards. This serves the project in two ways. Rather than designing the facility as one large structure, EFFEKT planned a series of domestic-scale buildings with gabled roof profiles blending the facility to its context while also forming a sound-free recreational and meditative space at its core. "The varying roof heights in conjunction with a precise selection of materials equipped the building with its own unique architectural character and typology; clearly distinguishing it from the surrounding hospital buildings," said the architects. In terms of material, ...