MED CAMPUS LINZ – INTERIOR

LORENZATELIERS, with its urban concept, was the unanimously chosen winner for the EU-wide competition for the new buildings of the Faculty of Medicine in Linz. The special appeal of this project lies in the chance to create a part of inner city including the General Hospital and the University.

The campus idea promotes research, exchange and communication. The mixture of teaching and research rooms, offices, library, café, supermarket and shops around an open campus creates a lively, attractive city atmosphere. 1,800 students as well as 250 professors and scientific staff will learn, teach and research in the 12,500 m² building.

The large building volume is combined in four structures around a common square. The four main functions – lecture halls, laboratories, offices and library – will each be accommodated in a building. The division into four separate constructions makes it possible to develop optimal spatial, technical and design solutions for the different functions.

DIALOGUE OF COLOR AND MATERIAL

A color palette of 10 colors is selected for the four structures. These, inspired by the “Polychromie architecturale” by Le Corbusier, support each other and emphasize the space: ocher, yellow, red and mixtures of these to represent gravity and statics, blue to emphasize and expand the space and black to add objects to put in the background. The red tones can be found on the ceramic facade, the blue tones on the steel facade, ocher and yellow on the concrete and wooden buildings. The color accents also appear inside: on the blue carpets in the offices, on the red rubber floors, doors, and acoustic panels in the laboratories, and on the chairs, think tanks, acoustic panels, and lighting-acoustic pads in the library. The furniture and its details are deliberately simple – Architettura povera – the materials show themselves as they are with their haptics and their colors.

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