Køge Life Space

Architecture that creates room for the feelings of patients and relatives.

Sensory effects play a major role in healthcare buildings. The project sheds light on this new holistic focus by creating a meeting place for people with cancer: a space between home and hospital that provides patients and relatives with an experience of security and tranquillity.

In the context of Region Zealand’s new University Hospital in Køge and the increase in the capacity of the hospital’s cancer treatment services, the creation of a ‘life space’ like this has great potential. The life space forms a setting for meetings between people in the same situation, while also housing workshops, psychologists, a cancer counselling service and more besides. The architecture stimulates and influences the senses using light, colours and water — elements that accommodate the mental and physical states of the users.