Eller + Eller Architekten
Seniors Citizens´ Home and Kindergarten, Duisburg
Werner Huthmacher
City
Duisburg
Building type
care facility, rehabilitation facility
building project
new building
completion
2006
material façade
stonework
The "Horstmann Haus Ruhrort" retirement home is part of a building ensemble for Haniel in Duis-burg-Ruhrort, built by Eller + Eller Architekten. The ensemble consists of an office building with an underground, single-storey car park (BCR Business Center Ruhrort, already completed), a medical centre (MCR Medical Center Ruhrort, under construction) and the senior citizens' home (Horstmann Haus Ruhrort, completed) with integrated kindergarten, which will be realised in different construction phases.
By breaking up the ensemble into three different buildings and deliberately avoiding a continuous perimeter development, the scale of the site is respected, the historic street layout is retained and a space-creating edge is created along Dr.-Hammacher-Straße. The design of the three buildings has been chosen in such a way that the facades along Vinckeplatz also extend around the corners of the buildings into Kruse- and Carp-street and, by staggering them, convey them westwards into the residential areas behind. With its height development, the senior citizens' home represents the consistent continuation of the urban building line consisting of the Tausend-Fenster-Haus, Medical and Business Centre.
The senior citizens' home includes the accommodation of the kindergarten formerly located in a part of the site. The main side of the L-shaped building faces Dr.-Hammacher-Strasse, while the south-western part of the building is semi-circular and opens onto the park. The central atrium, which spans several storeys, also provides the core zone with natural light and a high level of quality of stay.
In the new "Horstmann House", disabled and non-disabled children will come together in an integrative municipal kindergarten, while elderly people will live in age-appropriate flats on the other floors.
With a concept that is unique in Germany, Malteser as the operator of the senior citizens' home wants to improve the care situation for stroke patients.
Although the foundation is a home for the elderly, it is intended to allow access to the stroke area from the age of 18. The care concept provides for a total of 80 care places. Of these, 40 are for inpatient long-term care. 28 places have been created in a sheltered area for the care of Alzheimer's patients and twelve places for stroke patients.
The environment of the house focuses on dissociation. The building opens up to the park. In the garden, a raised bed system is being created for the therapy of dementia patients. A small walking school supports the physiotherapists. On the ground floor, there is an open lunch table for people from the district and the kindergarten integrated into the building offers the opportunity for mutual exchange.
By breaking up the ensemble into three different buildings and deliberately avoiding a continuous perimeter development, the scale of the site is respected, the historic street layout is retained and a space-creating edge is created along Dr.-Hammacher-Straße. The design of the three buildings has been chosen in such a way that the facades along Vinckeplatz also extend around the corners of the buildings into Kruse- and Carp-street and, by staggering them, convey them westwards into the residential areas behind. With its height development, the senior citizens' home represents the consistent continuation of the urban building line consisting of the Tausend-Fenster-Haus, Medical and Business Centre.
The senior citizens' home includes the accommodation of the kindergarten formerly located in a part of the site. The main side of the L-shaped building faces Dr.-Hammacher-Strasse, while the south-western part of the building is semi-circular and opens onto the park. The central atrium, which spans several storeys, also provides the core zone with natural light and a high level of quality of stay.
In the new "Horstmann House", disabled and non-disabled children will come together in an integrative municipal kindergarten, while elderly people will live in age-appropriate flats on the other floors.
With a concept that is unique in Germany, Malteser as the operator of the senior citizens' home wants to improve the care situation for stroke patients.
Although the foundation is a home for the elderly, it is intended to allow access to the stroke area from the age of 18. The care concept provides for a total of 80 care places. Of these, 40 are for inpatient long-term care. 28 places have been created in a sheltered area for the care of Alzheimer's patients and twelve places for stroke patients.
The environment of the house focuses on dissociation. The building opens up to the park. In the garden, a raised bed system is being created for the therapy of dementia patients. A small walking school supports the physiotherapists. On the ground floor, there is an open lunch table for people from the district and the kindergarten integrated into the building offers the opportunity for mutual exchange.
