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Strandbakkehuset Hospice in Rønde, Jutland
19 August 2021
Design: AART, Architects
Location: Rønde, north east of Århus, Jutland, Denmark
Danish architects design children and youth hospice

Images: Kontraframe
Strandbakkehuset Hospice Rønde Building News
The Danish architecture practice AART has designed and completed the new children and youth hospice in Rønde, Strandbakkehuset, as the first newly built hospice of its kind in Denmark – with the overall aim of providing space for life, play and alleviation, thereby offering a vital home for the children, youths and their families in a vulnerable time of their lives.
Quality of life is a keyword in the design of Strandbakkehuset, which contains four family residences, a staff section and several functions. Its purpose as a hospice is to embrace life for children and young people in a vulnerable situation.

Life, play and alleviation are accordingly essential values for the hospice, and it is with these values as the premise that AART have not only studied the construction programme but also carried out thorough research and anthropological field studies. The result is five focus points for the design of the hospice, ensuring that it can offer a meaningful everyday life for children and young people, their families and the staff who will be supporting them during their time at the hospice.

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