Hospice – House of Life

This structure of the vibrating bands also creates spaces inside that never seem closed or hermetic, always widening outwards and ultimately suggesting a way out. While on the regular floors the previously described fingers of the serving functions are placed protectively around the patient rooms facing the courtyard, the ground floor is open-plan, enabling and promoting the connection between café, seminar, exhibition, arrival and farewell. Up above the roofs, in the Room of Silence, the view widens back over the edge of the Isar and the city to the west.

The rooms themselves seek a dialogue with nature. The sounds of the city penetrate only softly into the yard. Like the entire building structure, the rooms also open across the loggia and courtyard to the crowns of the old trees. They allow you to let your eyes and thoughts wander and still be with yourself. The building envelope carries these two characteristics in its expression. Towards the street, the protective hand dominates through the clinker facade. The pretentious, fragile interior can only be felt in the openings as a wooden lattice hidden behind it. Towards the courtyard, in the patient room area, the wooden balconies protrude outwards. Rough and soft at the same time, changing, aging yet constant, green. In dialogue with the trees opposite. Part of a natural cycle.

Overall, we would like to see the use of open, natural materials wherever possible. For example, clay products that are extracted from the earth and can become earth again at the end of their lives. Wood that ages naturally when oiled with open pores and clinker that was recycled from demolished houses and brought to new life in this building.