The largest public construction project in Bavaria
The Grosshadern Campus is part of the Ludwig Maximilian University clinic (LMU), one of the leading national and international medical sites. The new building comprises a total of six new clinical centres and is the largest public construction project in Bavaria since the hospital was built in the 1960s/70s. The current planning competition encompasses the first construction phase of the large-scale project, and involves the realisation of three centres, the cardiopulmonary vascular centre, the oncology centre and the new diagnostic centre, which will be built on an area totalling around 140,000 m². This initial construction stage will constitute around 60 percent of the total construction volume of the new hospital and will be financed by the State of Bavaria with around one billion euros. An abdominal, pelvic and transplant centre, a head centre and a musculoskeletal centre, as well as additional facilities for research, teaching and logistics will be built in subsequent construction stages.

"We are very proud to have been announced as the winning team and we are looking forward to continuing our work in collaboration with HENN and the rest of the team as well as LMU to realise a new building and a campus which meet the structural demands and requirements of a university hospital of the future and at the same time enhance the urban image based on Healing Architecture principles and by putting people in the centre, says Klavs Hyttel, architect and partner at C.F. Møller Architects.

A modular and permeable building ensemble on a human scale
The existing buildings will be successively demolished after completion of the 1st construction phase and will make way for a coherent and accessible ensemble of buildings. A smaller-scale silhouette similar to that of surrounding buildings transforms the existing uniform "healthcare factory" so that it has a varied, urban and human appearance. The total volume of the new large structure is made up of modules which, despite a high degree of spatial efficiency, convey the image of an open, permeable development. The modular masterplan can be easily expanded as needed, ensuring a high degree of flexibility and sustainability for the campus. Inner courtyards and gardens allow for maximum daylight and very good ventilation, resulting in high amenity quality.

“The extremely cooperative collaboration between the offices of C.F. Møller Architects and HENN, as well as the specialists from the various disciplines, makes this outstanding design for the creation of tomorrow's medicine possible. The well thought-out structure represents flexibility and usage variance and promotes exchange and communication. In addition, the integration of nature as a healing element as well as ecological sustainability is of particular importance to us. The new approaches will have a noticeably positive impact on every patient's stay and will raise the working conditions in nursing and research, and thus medical care, to a new level. We look forward to continuing the jointly developed ideas and concepts for shaping the university hospital of the future.” says Marcus Fissan, Partner at HENN.