Drie Eiken care hotel in Edegem (Belgium) received a honourable mention for the 2016 International NVTG Building Award as was announced during the international IFHE congress (Federation of Health Care Engineering). The design responds to the European trends in healthcare and, according to the jury, offers the perfect solution for people who can not recover at home after hopitalization.
The hotel is a design by EGM Architects and Belgian office LLOX Architects, and provides an intermediate resting place between hospital and home. Patients can recover here while receiving round-the-clock care in a luxurious and comfortable hotel environment. Unique in Belgium, the hotel is a joint initiative from Antwerp University Hospital and the AZ Monica.
Drie Eiken looks more like a hotel than a hospital: care is available, but not visible. What is visible, however, is quality and hospitality. Patients are guests who can recover here in a comfortable setting that exudes warmth and luxury. One condition is that the guests are no longer acutely sick and do not require constant specialist care.
An important starting point for the design was to integrate the building into its context. The master plan for the hospital was strongly influenced by the green ridges. To leave the surroundings as intact as possible, the modern building is literally inserted into a ridge, integrated into its setting. And the same green landscape is even more visible inside. The compact and clear volume leaves as much space as possible for greenery, and is therefore sustainable in terms of energy consumption.