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Architects Collective, F+P Architects and SWAP Architecture are pooling their expertise across projects to create a leading Healthcare Architecture cooperation.

Together with our colleagues from Axis Ingenieurleistungen, RM Engineering and Bauwert, we had the pleasure of presenting the plaque and certificate of the klimaaktiv Silver Award for the laboratory at Klinik Favoriten to Laboratory Director Manuela Födinger, Christoph Wenisch, representing the Medical Director of Klinik Favoriten, and Michael Lischent, Managing Director of Projektentwicklungs- und Baumanagement GmbH.

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For the new laboratory building “House 7” at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin, we have reached another important milestone: the design planning phase and the project documentation (FPU) have been successfully submitted for review.

The project comprises a highly complex new laboratory building constructed using a timber-hybrid design, featuring flexible laboratory and research spaces while setting high standards in sustainability, resource efficiency, and technical adaptability.

The approval and detailed design phases are scheduled to begin this summer.

On May 6, construction began on the new Central Building (ZNA) at Klinik Favoriten. The ZNA was designed on behalf of the Wiener Gesundheitsverbund in close coordination with the hospital’s clinical staff. The new building will become one of Vienna’s largest healthcare projects, designed to meet the medical requirements of the future.

With the restructuring and expansion of services at the Favoriten Clinic, a central building is to be erected in place of the outdated pavilion structure.

The design strategies of Healing Architecture aim to meet the needs of everyone in the healthcare sector.

We at AHA are bringing our technical know-how together across projects, creating new synergies and establishing a new brand for forward-thinking architecture.

Healing Architecture creates a culture of soothing encounter and interaction in Healthcare Facilities.

Direct views of the greenery and good lighting have been proven to support patient recovery and staff job satisfaction.

Our aim is to meet the highly complex and constantly expanding list of planning requirements for healthcare facilities in the best possible way.

Healthcare Facilities Breakout Sessions: A series of talks organised by the Technical University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna.

Architects Collective and SWAP Architektur are part of the Technical University of Vienna’s Healthcare Facilities Breakout Sessions - A series of online discussions on the interface between medicine and architecture. The series is part of the University’s postgraduate master's program "Healthcare Facilities,” a cooperation between the Medical University of Vienna and the Technical University of Vienna beginning in autumn 2023.

The moderators of these series of talks are Michael Hiesmayr from MedUni Vienna and Christian Kühn from the Faculty of Architecture at Vienna University of Technology.

The first session was dedicated to the consequences of the corona pandemic on current and future planning, titled "Pandemic resilience - what have we learned?" Partner architects Svenja Partheimüller and Christoph Falkner from SWAP Architektur, as well as the infectiologist and hygienist Walter Zingg from the University Hospital Zurich were part of the panel.

The fourth session titled "Profit with BIM - Digital Hospital Planning” was dedicated to Building Information Modelling, or BIM for short, which makes it possible to map all relevant information on the construction and operation of a building in a common model that can be accessed by different stakeholders, from the planning architects to the specialist planners to the facility managers. During the session, architects Sonja Paar-Tschuppik, Marion Faes and Richard Klinger from Architects Collective as well as Josef Newertal from the Vienna Health Association discussed the benefits and limitations of BIM.

The sessions can be accessed here:
https://www.youtube.com/@healthcarefacilities

Healing Architecture is prioritized in the planning process alongside technique and functionality.