Psychiatric Centre in Reichenau

The three-storey new building marks the eastern edge of the elongated green square, the central meadow. Following the slight south-facing slope of the property, the building develops typologically as a terraced house on a slope. It opens generously to the sun and to Gnadensee in the south. The rather large, functionally horizontally aligned room program is divided into individual building parts, which are oriented to the scale of the existing buildings of the psychiatric center Reichenau. The new building, graded over usable terraces, appears essentially two-storey and is thus also oriented in height development to the historical buildings of the complex. It is divided into three parts, each of which surrounds an inner courtyard.

The positioning of the new building at the junction of an earlier historical road connection to the chapel means that the building naturally fits into the historical structure of the complex. It marks the entrance to the campus. The open building with its contemporary design clearly shows the process of further development and renewal of the psychiatric centre Reichenau to the outside.

Brief
New construction of clinic for geriatric psychiatry

Time
2011 - 2015

Usable area
3.458 qm

Gross area
6.335 qm

Building costs
about 15,8Mio. EUR

Beds
56

Client
Zentrum für Psychiatrie Reichenau

Team
Christian Huber, Jillian Flynn, Wenzel Jirzik, Yifang Liu, Anja Lunge, Eduard Magno, Sohta Mori, Joachim Staudt