White Arkitekter and HPP Architekten to deliver the new Medical Clinic in Tübingen

In collaboration with HPP Architekten, White Arkitekter, has been entrusted to deliver the new medical clinic, NMK, in Tübingen. Amt Tübingen des Landesbetriebs Vermögen und Bau Baden-Württemberg chose the proposal as it offers a great opportunity for development and met the requirements in an exemplary manner.

White Arkitekter and HPP Architekten will deliver a building with a comprehensive sustainability concept. The new medical clinic in the university town of Tübingen has a building concept that is based on a resource-saving and CO2-reduced construction method. The combination of wood as an essential structural material on the upper floors and renewable raw material in the expansion and façade, enables savings in greenhouse gas emissions and the stored carbon remains sequestered in the components in the long term. The design also offers separable components which makes it possible to reuse all components as a whole element or returned to their respective recycling process.

The building has a design with autogenic aspects of architecture and landscape. The base follows the slope and embeds the hilly landscape. On top of the base there is building volumes designed as wings to maximize the view and daylight. In order to ensure offering a healing environment, the three upper floors which mainly consists of individual care units have a view over Tübingen and the landscape of the Swabian Alb. The wood interior creates a warm atmosphere, and the patient rooms all have a high input of daylight. The hospital’s outdoor spaces designed by White Arkitekter’s landscape architects, such as terraces and gardens offer a green and lush environment and provides the staff, patients, and visitors access to the nature.

— ­We’re honored to be entrusted to design the new Medical Clinic of the University Hospital of Tübingen. We’re also delighted to be able to contribute with our knowledge of complex health care projects as well as the Scandinavian knowledge of wood architecture. Now we look forward to a good collaboration with HPP Architekten and Amt Tübingen des Landesbetriebs Vermögen und Bau Baden-Württemberg, says Kristin Schmitt, lead architect at White Arkitekter.

— We’re very pleased to get the opportunity to plan this extraordinary project together with our colleagues from White Arkitekter and the client Amt Tübingen des Landesbetriebs Vermögen und Bau Baden-Württemberg. The goal is to realize a health care project of the future in which, in addition to the aspects of healing architecture and optimized functional organisation, the aspects of an integral, sustainable overall concept also play an outstanding role. The close and trusting cooperation between White Arkitekter and HPP Architekten bundles the creative and professional skills to achieve the goals, says Volker Biermann, Partner and responsible for competition processing at HPP Architekten.

To ensure optimal operating procedures the design also focus on functional and efficient personnel zones and short distances to the stations. An easy-to-read path makes it’s easy to get around and find your way in the building.

— We’re very proud for this prestigious project. Our and HPP Architekten’s proposal is designed in collaboration with several construction, environment, and technical specialists. Together we’ve worked as an integrated team, which has been the key to developing a hospital with such a strong sustainability concept, says Cristiana Caira, lead architect for the competition submission at White Arkitekter.

The competition team included White Arkitekter, HPP Architekten GmbH, knippershelbig GmbH, Werner Sobek AG, PGMM Planungsgruppe M+M AG, SINFIRO GMBH & CO. KG vormals Ingenieurbüro Riesener GbR, GREENBOX Landschaftsarchitekten.