"Lamella Garden" at the new building WTZ - West German Tumour Centre - University Hospital Essen A project with extraordinary demands

For the new building of the West German Tumor Center, the design of an open space with special requirements was desired. Patients often have to spend many weeks, sometimes even months, in their rooms in quarantine after a spinal cord transplant.
The design of the open space in front of the rooms should be accordingly varied and always offer new impressions in every season. A view from the rooms is desired - a view from the adjacent traffic areas into the rooms is undesirable.
As a central design element, two-coloured concrete steles of varying heights were placed at different intervals in the open space. With changing light incidence, the steles create a constantly changing image for the patients and make it difficult for passers-by to see into the rooms. Isolated groups of partly evergreen shrubs and grasses offer changing colour and structure aspects for the viewers all year round.