The concept was clear not to interrupt the historic Bauhaus original Army Hospital but to compliment it. To do so, we decided to minimize the area of the upper 2 floors of the new hospital extension not to overshadow the existing building...
Doing so allowed us to create a roof garden terrace for the staff and patients just overlooking the park nearby. The bottom 2 levels were clad in brick to associate the new building with its predecessor. Other design elements taken from the existing building was the use of the horizontally barred balustrades. This element inspired the use of sandblasted horizontal stripes to opaque the large window areas in the new structure. The existing concrete lintels over the window openings inspired a similar use of the concrete frame structure around the large window overhangs in the new building. The jagged shape of the exterior silhouette of the existing operating theatre inspired a dynamic pattern on the upper concrete panels of the new structure. As a whole the 2 buildings would coincide together harmoniously.
Functionally the new extension works independently of the existing building. A glass bridge on the first floor links both buildings together so that the existing Army Hospital can use the new operating theatre and intensive care unit of the new extension.
