Medizinzentrum Anichstraße (New medical centre)
Anichstraße 35, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Paul Katzberger, Karin Bily, Michael Loudon (1998-2001) Builder-owner: TILAK Open to the public: interior courtyard
Architecture: Paul Katzberger, Karin Bily, Michael Loudon (1998-2001) Builder-owner: TILAK Open to the public: interior courtyard
The State Hospital and University Clinics, on the western fringe of the city centre – originally built towards the end of the 19th century on what was then an empty lot on the outskirts of town – is a "city within the city”. The medical centre on Anichstraße replaced the former gynaecological and ophthalmic wards, the architects organized 40.000 cubic meters in six storeys, around two spacious interior courtyards, so as to give a new spatial order to what was a rather heterogeneous neighbourhood. The intuitively self-explanatory organization of the various units manages to create an air of cosy and calm "wellness”, closer to a hotel than to traditional technology-ridden medical treatment.
