Espoo Hospital






A new Espoo hospital wing by K2S. The building consists of a set of courtyard blocks in freeform shapes with beds facing out into the landscape and services and living (not sure what these are but maybe social spaces away from the ward areas matbe?) facing back into the courtyards. A hospital design with patient environment human scale and wellbeing in the widest sense considered makes this a rare and very welcome project in my opinion.

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  1. Francisco Ortiz says:

    Technology behind this project is open source!
    They used Blender 3D to generate thi pics :)

    More: http://www.blendernation.com/2009/01/05/blender-used-for-hospital-design/

  2. lewism says:

    Nice catch Francisco, although abel told me in a comment he had left on my flickr page so I dod know but not of the blog posting. Blender seems to have improved manyfold since I first looked at it.

  3. Francisco Ortiz says:

    Yep! Blender improved a lot. The last Blender Foundation project (Big Buck Bunny) appears at CG Talk’s list “Top 10 2008″ (<<< It means nothing but… Well… A lot of people visit CG society :)

    What do you have inside your toolbox Lewis?

  4. lewism says:

    I run AutoCad and Viz (our main office programs)although I don’t like using Viz at all and try to keep clear of doing visualisations if possiböe as it seems to be a kind of black art which would just use all my time. Trying to learn abit of sketchup too.

  5. Francisco Ortiz says:

    “and try to keep clear of doing visualisations if possiböe as it seems to be a kind of black art which would just use all my time”

    Yes it is…! 3d visualizations suc*$ sometimes! Take a lot of time and give a sensation of emptiness when it is finished… :(

    I am quite familiar with this sensation… :) )

    (<<<Just finished a small 3d building for rapid prototyping today ;) .

  6. Cindy Conrad says:

    I run AutoCad and Viz (our main office programs)although I don’t like using Viz at all and try to keep clear of doing visualisations if possiböe as it seems to be a kind of black art which would just use all my time. Trying to learn abit of sketchup too.

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Posted on May 21st, 2012, 14:50