Bakpak-designed Viljandi Hospital opens in Estonia

This week saw the official opening of the new Viljandi hospitalin Estonia. A building that is not only an architectural landmark, but also an act of confidence in health, in caring for people and in the capacity of architecture to accompany them in the most fragile moments of life.

From Bakpak Architects, together with our colleagues from Dagopeen y Planhowe have had the honour of designing this place. A place designed to heal, to embrace, to offer light and dignity to those who live there, walk through it and work there.

Winning that international competition in 2018 was just the beginning. Today, seven years later, we see how its doors are opening to the public. And with them, a new way of understanding care is also opening up: more humane, more integrated, more sensitive to its environment.

The new complex brings together general hospital, primary care and mental health in the same space, configuring a building that not only responds to functional and technical criteria, but also proposes an architecture capable of caring: it opens up courtyards, provides natural light and is integrated into the topography to offer dignified, human spaces that are close to the citizens.

With the opening of its doors, Viljandi incorporates a reference health equipment and consolidates a new way of understanding care, more humane, integrated and sensitive to the environment.