About this episode

The episode explores how architecture can promote health and community through the design of Copenhagen's Centre for Health.

Timber instead of tiles, curiosity instead of corridors, and a 15-metre-high atrium designed to make people feel safer, healthier and more connected. Copenhagen's Centre for Health proposes a new typology for public healthcare architecture. In this episode, Michael Booth meets architect Dorte Mandrup, widely regarded as one of Denmark's greatest living architects, to explore how a complex and often contradictory brief — openness and privacy, care and community — was translated into a warm, tactile and quietly radical public building. Together they discuss the centre's boomerang-shaped footprint, full timber construction and soaring atrium, and how architecture can gently nudge behaviour , foster wellbeing and create spaces that feel inclusive without feeling exposed. Guest: Dorte Mandrup, Arkitekt , Dorte Mandrup A/S Host: Michael Booth Let's Talk Architecture is a podcast by Danish Architecture Center. Sound edits by Munck Studios.

People in this episode

Host: Michael Booth

Guest: Dorte Mandrup

Topics covered

• healthcare architecture
• public buildings
• wellbeing
• design
• community spaces

Keywords

• architecture
• health
• Copenhagen
• Dorte Mandrup
• public healthcare
• design
• wellbeing

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Dorte Mandrup A/S

Places: Copenhagen, Denmark

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