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Ghent University Hospital

BE

About

Over the past 60 years, this university hospital campus has grown into an organic whole with 40 buildings. This poses ever greater challenges for the workforce and for future developments. A master plan provides a much-needed rationalisation of available space.

Challenge

On the one hand, the master plan must bring uniformity to a campus that is partly preserved. On the other hand, green space must be maximised. In the process, the university hospital will remain in full operation. Future-oriented also means high sustainable ambitions.

Solution

A central hospital in timeless and sober architecture will be integrated between the existing wings in phases. All traffic is directed underground as much as possible, in order to transform the unbuilt areas into a park. Numerous interventions will make the entire campus carbon-neutral by 2050.

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Client(s)

  • Ghent University Hospital

Architect(s)

  • VK architects+engineers

Certificate(s)

  • GRO

Location

Ghent, Belgium

Timeline

2019

2029

Expertise Team(s)

  • Architecture

  • Digital Engineering

  • M&E Engineering

  • Roads, water & public space Engineering

  • Structural Engineering

  • Sustainable Design

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Design Solution(en)

  • Masterplanning

  • Feasibility Study

  • Sustainability Assessment

  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis

  • Building Simulations

  • VR Simulations

  • Building physics

  • Digital Twin management

  • Sustainability Tracking

  • Occupancy Evaluation Management

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The result will be an innovative, intelligent and CO2-neutral health campus, ready for the future.

Simon Ossieur

project director healthcare, VK architects+engineers

Ghent University Hospital has appointed VK architects+engineers to design an integrated master plan and the new hospital building. The assignment includes the realisation of a number of preparatory and related projects (12,710m²) and a central new building (73,300m²).

VK will completely redesign the existing 42 ha campus, currently with some 40 buildings, into a compact, intelligent health campus with a central and connecting hospital building. The result will be an innovative, CO2-neutral campus that is ready for the future.

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