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PROGRAMME OF REQUIREMENTS

The new RGC building is in actual fact composed of three building parts, namely: a therapy building, the main building in H-form and an isolation area. A basement has been constructed under the whole for the storage of bicycles and the garaging of cars. The main building is made up of three floors and a fourth part floor. The therapy building has two floors.

The main entrance is situated at ground (basement) level in the central area. This also includes meeting and reception areas. The main entrance also has a hidden entrance leading to the closed crisis centre. This layout enables those in a crisis situation to be assisted straight away at the front door. Situated to the left and right at the back (woods) are the closed wards, linked by the isolation areas. The position of the isolation areas screens off an inner area for the closed wards at ground level. An ambulance entrance has been included on the boundary between the closed wards and the isolation area. Two open wards for adults and adolescents respectively are located at the front. The outdoor area for both these clinics is on the outside of the H. All the clinical wards have rooms with their own bathroom facilities on both sides of the central corridor. The entrances to the rooms are like alcoves, thus avoiding a long, narrow effect.

The first building layer, the ground level of the hospital, has treatment and group rooms as well as sitting rooms and smoking areas for adolescents and adults. In between these there is a meeting place, the secretariat and an open landing. On this level the main building of the RGC is connected to the hospital by way of an elevated bridge, the therapy building and another elevated bridge. Both elevated bridges will be transparent and yet closed.

Most of the first floor is reserved for the elderly. There is a closed and an open clinical ward as well as therapy rooms. A spacious outdoor loggia has been provided for this group. A clinical ward for adults and the rooms for the paramedical and preventive ward are also situated on this floor.

The fourth floor accommodates the rooms for administration and management such as conference rooms, offices and the administrative department. There are also two rooms for building engineering. This floor is placed diagonally on top of the building. An extension could be built on the remaining area in the future, as the underlying construction is suitable.

The considerable amount of glass that has been used at the head ends and in the middle of the wings ensures that the corridors are light and airy. Moreover, a lot of light, spacious stairwells have been used. With the number of floors in mind, two lifts have been installed.

In addition to a number of rooms for creative therapy, song and dance and psychomotor therapy – the latter of which are divided between two floors – several technical support rooms have been incorporated in the therapy building. These can be easily accessed by motor vehicles without disturbing the patients.