title: [The Rikshospital under glass].
abstract: The new national hospital, "Rikshospitalet", is to be built in the northwestern part of Oslo in 1993. It is not only words when the planners talks about humane architecture. The national hospital is a training hospital for Oslo university, and the various consequent functions are arranged according to a logical plan. The most important feature of the hospital is its main "street", an open construction under a glass roof. It will bustle with life, since it will house both public services and outpatient reception. The street delimits different zones, with causal traffic at street level and hospital traffic between the wards and operating theatres and X-ray departments (which are collected in blocks in a central square) on gangways crossing the "street" at higher levels. The wards are formed as pavillions which project from the main building. In this way each ward will be of reasonable size, and the patients will be in close contact with the beautiful surroundings. The hospital will cover about 120,000 square meters, and its estimated capacity is 25,000 in-bed patients and 100,000 outpatient consultations per year.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Elton
mesh_terms: D001108:Architecture; D005898:Glass; D006275:Health Facility Planning; D006749:Hospital Design and Construction; D006766:Hospitals, County / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006773:Hospitals, Municipal / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D009664:Norway
vernacular_title: Rikshospital under glass.