Glostup Hospital – Sølandskabet
Category
Location
Glostrup, Denmark
Contract period
2022-2023
Contact
Hans Kragh
Area
approx. 10200 m2
Construction cost
Image Credits
Drone Pixels
Kragh & Berglund designed “Sølandskabet” (the Lake Landscape) at Rigshospitalet’s Glostrup department. Sølandskabet is a poetic and restorative hospital environment, supporting rich biodiversity and sheltered places to pause within beautiful green surroundings. It creates a calm and sensory setting around Glostrup Hospital and actively enhances the experience and wellbeing of patients, relatives, and staff.
Sølandskabet emerged as a direct consequence of constructing a new noise barrier – a baffle – that shields the hospital’s outdoor areas from traffic noise from Ring 3 and the new light railway. Forming the baffle from surplus soil from the hospital grounds created an opportunity to rethink the landscape as something far more than a purely technical design.
Kragh Berglund reshaped the terrain to create a unique and sensory landscape of lakes in varying sizes, winding paths and timber bridges that invite both movement and moments of pause.
“The project unites the technical requirements for noise protection and rainwater management with a restorative landscape architecture in which nature, function and human wellbeing go hand in hand.”
Stairways at selected points provide direct access to the water’s edge, and together with gently curving stone formations, they encourage visitors to step away from the established gravel paths and down into the landscape itself, where plants and biodiversity can be experienced up close. The landscape is shaped with an emphasis on variation in spatial character, atmosphere and and in the ways visitors encounters with nature.
All rainwater from the new hospital is channelled into the lake landscape, which also functions as a natural retention and purification system. Over the course of the year, the area shifts in character, and the landscape gradually shifts between wet meadow and bog with high biodiversity, where water, vegetation and wildlife interact continuously.
The project unites the technical requirements for noise protection and rainwater management with a restorative landscape architecture in which nature, function and human wellbeing go hand in hand.
Want to learn more?
Contact Hans Kragh
hkr@kragh-berglund.dk
+45 81 72 74 53
