Vårdcentral Vadstena

Abstract

Our assignment was to design a new primary care center, Vårdcentral in Swedish, for Vadstena. Vadstena is a town in Sweden’s Östergötland county, roughly 240 kilometres away from both Gothenburg and Stockholm. The town has a long history in healthcare, dating back to a medieval monastery that cared for the sick and injured, until this day, where one of Östergötland’s biggest forensic psy chiatries is located here. The current primary care centre has gotten too small by now, and did not fit the needs of a modern healthcare facility any longer. For this reason the regional healthcare authority decided to build a new primary care centre for Vadstena, on a site that also has a long history in healthcare architecture: The surrounding buildings used to be part of a big Pavillon-style hospital complex built between 1947 and 1961. These former hospital buildings however were reused over time, and today only the old primary care centre is still used as a healthcare facility.