[Focus] Healtcare buildings

Vallastaden has built a new nursing home for the elderly with dementia. Here, a future-oriented nursing home has been opened where the focus is on the individual's needs and well-being. With a new welfare technology, people with dementia receive more individualized care. This has helped the care staff to be able to receive more efficient and personal care, however they have also succeeded in raising the integrity of dementia patients. The garden at Valla nursing home has a beautiful and harmonious feeling where there are many places for different activities, including balance training. Through Alab, SAPA has delivered recycled aluminum facades, windows and doors that are made from Hydro CIRCAL recycled aluminum.

Comfort and wide views from a beautiful roof top can now be found at Lindeberghome in Oslo. An environmentally friendly BREEAM Excellent certified project, where it has succeeded in achieving zero fossil emissions during construction. This is largely due to the local energy wells on site. Likewise, this has meant that energy consumption has been extremely low and contributed to a more environmentally friendly place. SAPA has trough H-Fasader GlassTeam delivered 6,6 tons of aluminum facades, doors, and windows to Lindeberghome.

When Kungälv hospital no longer could meet society’s care needs, a new planning process started to build a new building that would efficient and improve care, both for the staff and patients. The new hospital is decorated with idyllic pictures made of ceramics that will reflect the city and the river. The individual's integrity and solidarity have been emphasized by having built several single rooms, which then contributes to more well-being for the patients. With several single rooms, patients’ safety can also be increasing, and a decrease of spread infection becomes possible. With the help of GlasLindberg, SAPA's recycled aluminum facades and doors in Hydro CIRCAL have been delivered to the project. By using circular materials, the project emphasizes its sustainable thinking and thus minimizes the footprint on the environment.

Now, the elderly at Kulatoppen care center can enjoy a harmonious and health-focused home where the technology takes nursing towards the future. Located on the mountain's top, a fantastic view of the strait is given. The building is not only placed in a beautiful place, but it also uses an efficient and environmentally friendly heating. SAPA has through H-fasader Stette AS delivered facades, windows and doors to Kulatoppen.

Kjelleparken is a health center where health is spelled in capital letters. Here, the health center is surrounded by a rustic landscape where a vegetation belt thrives around the environment. The design has been based on the surroundings, while the geometry has been characterized by the care's needs regarding performance and easy accessibility for patients. Environmentally friendly materials that can withstand the changing trend where also high on the list in the planning process and with energy-efficient consumption, the building has been classified as energy-saving class A. Through Umbra Produkter AS, SAPA has delivered windows and doors to Kjelleparken.

A thriving garden with a stimulus for nature will lift care for the elderly to a higher level. With many common areas and activities, this will create a more pleasant home that blurs the traditional framework for care for the elderly. People with dementia and disabled individuals will easily be able to move freely among the common areas both indoors and outdoors. Fosshagen resource center has worked according to four pinots in the global sustainability goals and the project is certified according to BREEAM Very Good. Through FasadeConsult Aluminium AS, SAPA has delivered aluminum facades, doors and glass roof.

Beautiful architecture and inspiring design characterize Finspång's new healthcare center in Sweden, where unique art can be found among the common areas but also on the walls of the building structure. The project has received the award Miljöbyggnad Silver, where they have worked a lot on a construction technology that has a long lifespan. Energy savings have been made through solar panels that are located on the roof and an outstanding glass and aluminum facade can be found in the health center's courtyards, among other places. Through GlasLindberg, SAPA has delivered facades and doors in recycled Hydro CIRCAL aluminum.

The architecture of well-being is not something new. Some would say it already started in the beginning of early 20th century as a part of the modern movement. Healthy housing was a core concept already then, and a lot of buildings were built in the endeavor to improve well-being through design. The common thread of this type of architecture is copious amounts of natural light, views of the outside and the use of top modern technology. Lindesberg Hälsocenter is no exception, the building was designed with modern technology tools such as daylight simulation, energy calculations and analyses of microclimate etc.