Titbits from the hospital of the future

The city of Kuopio has several important twin cities around the world. A few years ago Jaana and I presented to a large delegation of Shanghai’s Pudong visiting Kuopio the exhibition we had realised in the Finnish pavilion of the Shanghai world fair in 2010. The exhibition received as many as 5.7 million visitors. In […]

Titbits from the hospital of the future

Architecture, EN

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Whew, KUH!

It is now exactly five years since we started drafting a proposal for the architectural invitation competition of the Kuopio University Hospital (KUH) main entrance hall and sampling spaces. Jaana and I took the challenge very personally and with dedication. With our team, we thought up the hospital of the future, a “sanatorium” that promotes […]

Whew, KUH!

Architecture, EN

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STAR GUEST Heidi Salonen: ”Hospital spaces affect our well-being”

A well planned and implemented, quality hospital environment supports and improves our health and well-being. Scientific studies have shown that well planned and implemented space solutions, surface materials, acoustics, ventilation, lighting, temperature conditions and views of nature, in particular, have a great positive significance to the users of the spaces. The planning of welfare service […]

STAR GUEST Heidi Salonen: ”Hospital spaces affect our well-being

Architecture, EN

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An adventure in the renovated lobby area of the Kuopio University Hospital

The sampling spaces of the Kuopio University Hospital were opened at the turn of the year. The curved red veneer walls invite into the homely ward rooms. The waiting spaces still await the completion of the furniture that had its inspiration in the form of the nucleus. The vein-like curved glass walls still lead the […]

An adventure in the renovated lobby area of the Kuopio University Hospital

Architecture, EN

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Mental Alchemy and man’s internal forms in hospital planning

Some ten years ago our daughter was admitted to the Kuopio University Hospital. Morning and evening my architect husband Heikki Lamusuo and I walked through the lobby of the hospital and had both unknowingly pondered the malformation of the space. What should be done to make it more welcoming? The escalator should be removed, the […]

Mental Alchemy and man's internal forms in hospital planning

Architecture, EN, Mental Alchemy

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