TEC21. HOSPITAL BUILDING

As in many other European countries, the Swiss hospital landscape is currently undergoing major transformation. It is experiencing a construction boom. For many operators, architects and users of hospitals, the question now arises as to whether and how insights from architectural psychology can be meaningfully incorporated into design and planning. Does the spatial added value also create a health-related one? Architect Gemma Koppen and psychologist Tanja C. Vollmer answer these questions in a detailed interview about their work at the intersection of architecture and psychology. For over 12 years they have been experimenting in research and architectural practice with architectural psychology in order to develop not only a health-effective architecture, so-called healing architecture, but also one that revolutionizes hospital aesthetics. In no less than three contributions, the theories, research results and practical experience in hospital design of the two founders of kopvol architecture & psychology are incorporated:

Cieslik T. (2020): Von kranken Häusern und heilenden Hilfen. Rezensionen. In: Kann Architektur heilen? Vom Krankenhaus zum Gesundheitsbau. TEC 21. Schweizerische Bauzeitung  2020/32, p.17

Cieslik T. (2020): Räume, um gesund zu werden. Die Kopvol Umgebungsvaribalen. In: Kann Architektur heilen? Vom Krankenhaus zum Gesundheitsbau. TEC 21. Schweizerische Bauzeitung  2020/32, p.24-28

Cieslik T. & Dietsche D. (2020): Wir brauchen eine neue Ästhetik für Krankenhäuser. Gemma Koppen und Tanja C. Vollmer im Interview. In: Kann Architektur heilen? Vom Krankenhaus zum Gesundheitsbau. TEC 21. Schweizerische Bauzeitung  2020/32, p.29-34