The cross-community Landleben Foundation and the Landengel e.V. association are building a new health, care and care network in the Thuringian village region of Seltenrain. These include the rural centre conversion project being built as part of the International Building Exhibition (IBA) Thuringia with various health services and services under one roof, as well as decentralised health kiosks with a bus stop in the participating municipalities as a meeting point, first point of contact for health issues and as a new mobility concept.
The first five health kiosks in the municipalities of Blankenburg, Bruchstedt, Kirchheilingen, Urleben and Sundhausen are currently being implemented by Pasel-K Architects as timber construction experiments with bus stops.
The focus of the project is not only on the villagers as patients, but also as citizens with their needs for advice, exchange and meeting places. Adaptation to climate and structural change
The aim of the project is to noticeably increase the attractiveness of life in rural areas and to open up new perspectives by returning functions and supplies locally and to initiate climate-friendly mobility and conversion projects that prevent migration and reduce mobility to cities. To this end, the individual areas between service providers and insured persons are renetworked on the basis of health care in order to improve health outcomes and preventive care is "shared". At the same time, new jobs and occupational profiles are being gained. As an example of a reorientation in municipal services of general interest, it also offers good accessibility of counselling and care centres, health education and skills promotion to improve health problems and the development of a "healthy" climate-friendly region (model region).
Health kiosks as a multi-coded bus stop
The aim of the concept is not only to offer health services, but also to avoid social isolation and to enable care, care for the elderly and welfare in rural regions in an exemplary manner.
In order to give this new social infrastructure a face spatially and creatively as a guidance system for sustainable care, the idea was developed during public village talks to dock the future health kiosks at the central bus stops of the municipalities and to link the public mobility infrastructure with them in order to allow residents of other communities to participate in the offer. On behalf of the IBA Thuringia, Pasel-K Architects from Berlin then developed a design manual that sees the kiosks, which have a maximum size of 25 square metres per municipality, as an architectural family that forms a coherent whole despite their different locations. They each serve as a consultation room as well as a switchable waiting area for the bus and have an integrated toilet. Designed as a high-quality timber construction with a renewable, self-sufficient electricity and heat supply (infrared heating), the construction method will be carried out individually for each location and municipality in order to simultaneously present and convey new ways of Thuringian timber construction cultures.
Construction, Climate, Sustainability The experimental character of the project serves the development of prototype buildings on the one hand and the development of new collaborative processes on the other. Both have a model role that radiates far beyond the region. The health kiosks thus generate a concrete contribution to a new regional building culture that sees rural areas as an opportunity to create something new and reconciles innovation and contemporary design with local tradition.
Text: Pasel-K Architects
Photos: Thomas Müller
