Cantonal Hospital St.Gallen KSSG - House 07A

Third new building of the KSSG-OKS generation project. 2009-2024

PROCEDURE, CLIENT, CONTRACTOR, TEAM
See overall project KSSG-OKS

KEY DATA
Floor area: 64,361 m2
Building volume: 249,802 m3
Planning: from 2011
Realization: 2018-2024
Construction costs SKP 1-9 (without H4J): approx. CHF 292 million

DESCRIPTION
Uses:
Ground floor: entrance hall with café bar and kiosk, neurology / neurosurgery outpatient clinic, interdisciplinary outpatient clinic
1st floor: intensive care units, interventional center 2nd floor: intensive care units, interventional center Second floor: intensive care units, interventional center
2. 2nd floor: Operating theaters, interdisciplinary day clinic
3rd floor: Restaurant, outpatient clinic Upper floor: Restaurant, Outpatient Clinic Eastern Switzerland Vascular Center, Roof Garden
4. Upper floor: Cardiology outpatient clinic
5th to 10th upper floor: Wards (96 patient rooms)
11th upper floor: Meeting room / office, building services
12th/13th upper floor: Helicopter landing pad, building services
1. Basement: Radiology, building services
2. Basement: Logistics, staff changing room, building services, underground parking garage
3rd to 7th basement: Underground parking garage (450 PP)
Notes:
In-situ concrete shell
Precast concrete columns and staircases
Precast concrete façade
Accessible roof garden
Art on the building: Daniel Ammann, Herisau, CKÖ Sara Widmer and Daniel Lütolf, Zurich, Katalin Deér, St.Gallen, Beatrice Dörig, St. Gallen, Gabriele Fulter, St. Gallen.Gallen, Gabriele Fulterer and Christine Scherrer, Vienna, Matthias Gnehm, Zurich, Eric Hattan and Max Leiß, Basel, Paris, Marseille, Marguerite Hersberger, Zurich, Daniel Robert Hunziker, Zurich, Jean-Luc Manz and Guillaume Othenin-Girard, Lausanne and Hong Kong, Almira Medaric, Frauenfeld, Vinzenz Meyner, Zurich and Burgdorf, Claudio Moser, Geneva, Norbert Möslang, St.Gallen, Reto Müller, Stein am Rhein, Zurich, Uesslingen Buch, Miriam Sturzenegger, Bern and Emmenbrücke

PHOTOS
Georg Aerni, Florian Brunner

VISUALIZATION
Virtual Design Unit GmbH

PUBLICATIONS
Reference books:
KSSG-OKSI - Project introduction and pavilion, ed. Marko Sauer and Christoph Wieser, Verlag park books, 2018
KSSG-OKSIII - House 07A, ed. Marko Sauer and Christoph Wieser, Verlag park books, 2025

LINKS
Kantonsspital St.Gallen:
New building project "come together"
Construction magazine "come together"
Webcams
Art for the new buildings
Art in construction "Reflexion Arealtransformation":
Katalin Déer, 12 ZWEI
Matthias Gnehm, The Therapy of Time

"The project expresses an attitude and is characterized by a self-confidence that does not need to assert itself through ostentatious gestures. It combines calmness and restraint in the face of what is already there with an eye for what is possible and meaningful. This relaxed matter-of-factness is evident in the way the design knows how to combine many things."
- Gerhard Mack
Gerhard Mack, A place for the people (excerpt), KSSG-OKS III - House 07A, ed. Marko Sauer and Christoph Wieser, Verlag park books, 2025
"The competition entry's slogan "come together" became not only a catchphrase for marketing the new hospital buildings, but also an objective of the design: The aim was to calm the heterogeneous, even disparate nature of the site with a central building, to give the quarter an anchor with a large building volume and, while respecting the existing buildings, to show new development possibilities for the future. This is only possible if the design blends in and stands out at the same time, if the mixture of caring respect and decisive renewal is successful."
- Gerhard Mack

Gerhard Mack, A place for the people (excerpt), KSSG-OKS III - House 07A, ed. Marko Sauer and Christoph Wieser, Verlag park books, 2025

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