1. First prize in the new Filderklinik Plus competition

Together with arcass Architekten, we are delighted to have won 1st prize in the competition for the new Filderklinik building. MVD supported the team of architects as structural engineers in the competition. The Filderklinik is the largest integrative acute hospital in Baden-Württemberg with an exceptional location directly adjacent to nature. This unique selling point is to be further enhanced with the new building. The winning design translates the basic anthroposophical approach into a human-oriented and scaled development. Freely arranged houses are interlocked with the surrounding landscape in order to promote health and bring body, mind and soul into balance with the holistic approach. To this end, the existing slope is used in the form of an open landscape slab. Intensively greened roof areas develop in continuation of the orchards. Several atriums let daylight into the basement. This creates large, contiguous first floor areas for public and medical use. Above this, the patient rooms, designed in rounded free-form shapes in individual buildings, offer a great view.

Following the principle of "as little supporting structure as possible - as much as necessary", wide-span flat ceilings with individual columns in a grid of approx. 8 are planned, which are hardly susceptible to vibrations. The installation layout is completely flexible and the room layout on the floors can be freely selected. This means that restructuring is possible without interfering with the supporting structure. The use of cements with a low clinker content improves the CO₂ balance of the load-bearing structure by approx. 30 %. A further 20% of CO₂ can be saved in the reinforced concrete structure by reducing the mass of the construction and reducing the basic reinforcement.

A timber-concrete hybrid construction is planned for the upper floors. The storey ceilings are to be designed as board stack or cross-laminated timber ceilings with concrete topping. A glulam design is planned for the beams and columns. A flexible skeleton structure is also to be created on the upper floors - load-bearing timber walls will be dispensed with. Proof of fire resistance class R 90 will be provided via the burn rate. With the timber-concrete hybrid construction, CO₂ emissions can be reduced by approx. 80% compared to a conventional reinforced concrete construction. The load-bearing structure of the upper floors is therefore almost CO₂-neutral.