NEUROREHABILITATION CENTER SLAGELSE

“The building's sustainable wooden construction becomes an architectural tool that frames the views out to the surrounding meadows”

The relationship with nature is a theme in the entire house that offers visitors and staff a unique contact with the surrounding landscape and the inner courtyard. The landscape surroundings are exposed and folds into the building through the use of large window sections and notches in the facade's tight rectangular geometry, which creates outdoor space integrated into the building. All indoor functions have a close relation to a green landscape situation in the form of a view over the countryside hills and green surroundings or look to the sheltered courtyard and directly level-free exit to the large covered terrace along the building's facade with integrated living space.

It has been crucial to create a building that through use of architectural tools are healing and stress-relieving for them visitors and which creates logical and easy workflows for the staff. Healing architecture is the idea that architecture affects people's well-being and promotes the healing process. A number of factors have shown to influence the healing such as light, sound/noise, view/sight, nature and that visitors can easily and clearly find their way around the building (wayfinding).