Knowledge Center At St Olavs Hospital

KNOWLEDGE CENTER AT ST OLAVS HOSPITAL

Ratio Arkitekter AS and Nordic Office of ArchitBecture

Knowledge Center At St Olavs Hospital
© Espen Grønli

ARCHIETCTS
Ratio Arkitekter AS + Nordic Office of Architecture

LOCATION
Trondheim, Norway

AREA
18000.0 sqm

CATEGORY
Hospital

PROJECT YEAR
2013

Knowledge Center At St Olavs Hospital
Courtesy of  Ratio Arkitekter AS and Nordic Office of Architecture

Text description provided by architect.

The Knowledge Centre, opened in September 2013, completes the overall scheme for the hospital grounds that has been on-going since the design competition in 1995.

And is centrally located in the heart of the 225.000 m2 hospital-development in Trondheim, Norway.

Knowledge Center At St Olavs Hospital
© M.Herzog Visualis
Knowledge Center At St Olavs Hospital
© M.Herzog Visualis

This 18.000 m2 building saves 2 million kWh per year, and has proven that it is possible to make significant savings even in the most energy intensive buildings – hospitals.

It also makes the passive house-facade a huge and unique work of integrated art and architecture, facing the new urban plaza of the city.

Knowledge Center At St Olavs Hospital
© Espen Grønli
Knowledge Center At St Olavs Hospital
© M.Herzog Visualis

Designed with a strong emphasis on functionality and usability, the Knowledge Centre will provide facilities for both St.

Olav’s Hospital and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Knowledge Center At St Olavs Hospital
© Espen Grønli
Knowledge Center At St Olavs Hospital
© Jiri Havran

The building services include outpatient treatment rooms, advanced laboratories, offices, isolated beds. Wards, medical/public library, study rooms, auditoriums, canteen and restaurant.

The main building structure is wrapped around the primary place of sharing knowledge; the “egg-shaped” auditoriums – made of an exposed three-dimensional diagrid wooden construction.

Knowledge Center At St Olavs Hospital
© Espen Grønli
Knowledge Center At St Olavs Hospital
© Jiri Havran

Incorporated in the facades is a unique and completely integrated artwork, refining the building components already present in the passive house building.

The artistic combination of external walls with white printed glass-cladding and black print on the white sunscreens makes the look of the facades change during the day, dependent on the solar heat load.

All the technical installations save energy, working together with the extremely well insulated building - intelligently controlled by a centralized system.

Knowledge Center At St Olavs Hospital
© Jiri Havran
Knowledge Center At St Olavs Hospital
© M.Herzog Visualis

Some examples - the indoor lighting use daylight sensors, and are turned on/off as the sunshades go up and down.

And 90% of the heat in the indoor air is recycled; ventilation is controlled by CO2-sensors.

Knowledge Center At St Olavs Hospital
© M.Herzog Visualis
Knowledge Center At St Olavs Hospital
© M.Herzog Visualis

All materials used are sustainable, healthy, and makes a highly useable and humane hospital building.


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