09.08.2011

Working with NCC, Rådgivende Ingeniører EKJ, Tegnestuen Møllen and Peter Holst Arkitektur & Landskab, Vilhelm Lauritzen Arkitekter has won a competition by invitation for a care centre in Hillerød Øst.

The winning proposal for Plejecenter Skovhuset is based on a range of primary approaches and goals:

• The care centre must appear non-institutional and welcome everybody in the area
• The care centre, sheltered housing and dementia day centre must have a clear structure in a landscape setting with a wealth of features creating a dignified setting where residents can enjoy their everyday lives
• The buildings must employ simple internal logic to ensure that it is easy to find your way around
• The residential units must be bright and airy, with good views from living and bedrooms.

“The principal architectural approach involves scaling down in a most convincing fashion, resulting in a site that despite its size is welcoming and peaceful in its sloping landscape. The variation in frontage height provides a dynamism that opens out onto the green roofs, and the large expanses of glass create transparency and lightness in the otherwise dense, compact tile walls. The constant interchange between facade projections and the plinth footprint is of great architectonic value”, the jury states.

Some 9000 square meters of floor space house the care centre, sheltered housing and dementia day centre. The buildings are up to four floors high. A hundred or so two-room residential units are located on the top floors, with shared centre facilities on the ground floor. A park-like garden and car parking will be established in connection with the centre.

Seven groups submitted entries for the competition.

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