Connecting two campus areas
Over the decades, C.F. Møller Architects has helped shape both the Municipal Hospital and Aarhus University. Both have developed through a coherent architectural approach and a layout that has allowed for expansion and adaptation over time.
The yellow brick of the University Park and the red brick of the Municipal Hospital meet in the two passageways designed by the practice beneath the busy Nørrebrogade. Here, a blend of yellow and red brick creates a gradual transition between the two areas. The passageways provide direct routes for pedestrians and cyclists, helping the two areas feel like a single, shared campus.
A new chapter in a long architectural history
The first buildings of Aarhus Municipal Hospital date from 1893 and were designed by architect Thomas Arboe. The site’s distinctive red-brick hospital buildings were largely shaped by the expansion plan developed by C.F. Møller and Kay Fisker in the early 1930s. The first new buildings were completed in 1935.
C.F. Møller subsequently continued the hospital’s expansion, maintaining its palette of red brick, red tiled roofs and white architectural details, with gardens and green spaces between the buildings. The last patients left the hospital in 2019, and the site has since undergone an extensive transformation into Universitetsbyen.
