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Gentle architecture: this hospital ambulance “drive through” from 1757 in Copenhagen was built with a wooden block driveway to lessen the noise of horses hooves as the carriage entered the vaulted reception area. Ecological, cheap, robust, easily maintained (as we can well see).
Nicolai Eigtved and Lauritz de Thurah designed the Fredriks Hospitalet in 1757, “the hospital was run as an independent institution with the purpose of giving free care and cure to patients without means. About two thirds of the patients were treated free of charge.”
And look at the hospital gardens, what a place to recuperate from illness or injuries or, like Søren Kierkegaard in 1855, to spend your last days in life. It was also used to grow medicinal herbs for the patients.
The hospital was named after its benefactor and institutor, King Frederick V of Denmark (1723-1766). Today it is a museum of design.
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