CONVERSION, REDEVELOPMENT AND EXTENSION OF A NEUROLOGICAL OUTPATIENT CLINIC IN STYRIA

competition: 1st prize

• Exterior Architecture
• Interior Architecture
• Interior Design
• Lighting Design

LKH Feldback’s extension consists of adding another level to its south building. The additional story includes a variety of examination and treatment rooms, which could also be transformed during a second conversion phase into an interdisciplinary special class station. This was a unique challenge for the INNOCAD team and required thoughtful planning and flexibility in the concept. The aim and the outcome is a brighter, hotel-like atmosphere, achieved through a central communication area and waiting zone, awash with natural light through a skylight. The generously appointed foyer and reception area is surrounded by various seating niches and provides intimacy and a relaxing atmosphere with its soothing central copper-colored room furniture. All ambulance, therapy and service offices are connected and radiate through this central area. These rooms also offer relaxing natural light by room-height glazing that opens to a generous outside terrace which acts like a park. In addition to its use as sun protection, an expanded metal façade is “woven” together with the new plant pots whose design follows the previous shape of the existing building and connects to the new extension. The façade unifies the entire building by simultaneously interlacing the old construction with the new extension.

• project name: A+ LKH Feldbach
• function: Healthcare, Best of
• location: Feldbach, AUSTRIA
• client:
  • KAGES
• floor space: 728 m²
• number of floors: 1
• construction start: 10 / 2009
• completion: 09 / 2010
• construction cost: EUR 2.7 million net
• project team:

  • Oliver Kupfner
    Bernd Steinhuber, Dominik Gladik, Jörg Kindermann, Martin Lesjak

• photographer: Paul Ott