Jeroen Pit Huis is a healthcare home for chronically, seriously ill children and their families, that serves as a transition home between intensive care units and their family homes. Located in the Southeast of Amsterdam on the ground of Amsterdam Academic Medical Centre, Jeroen Pit Huis has 8 apartments connected by a communal living room with a communal kitchen, playroom, physio area, nursing station, snug room, central bathroom, and meeting spaces. The in-between home is a pioneering concept in healthcare and provides all the necessary medical help for chronically, seriously ill children, who are dependent on high-quality medical and nursing care and their families while offering the comfort of home.
Concrete designed the interior of the Jeroen Pit House as a home, with social spaces at the heart and the technical spaces practically placed within the home-shaped interior architecture. The Concrete team started by programmatically reshuffling the functions and build up from the perspective of the Jeroen Pit Huis purpose, facilitating all medical equipment of a hospital in a home environment. The Concrete team looked at the blank space from the perspective of the Jeroen Pit Huis purpose, facilitating all medical equipment of a hospital in a home environment. This perspective helped the Concrete team place a heart in the middle of the floor plan.
first people than spaces.
The heart represents home, life, connection, and living together. Concrete placed the social spaces at the heart of the space; communal kitchen, living rooms, playroom, the giraffe, physio room, snug room and meeting spaces. The most relevant social spaces were located in connection with the biggest windows and orientated towards the terrace. Surrounded by the 8 apartments, the heart of the Jeroen Pit Huis became the connector, conversation starter, and the place to live, share and support each other for families going through a difficult time.
The Jeroen Pit Huis is a result of the collaboration of the parties: Stichting Het Jeroen Pit Huis, Stichting VanKarnebeek4Kids, Amsterdam UMC, Stichting Steun Emma Kinderziekenhuis, Het Lindenhofje/Leger des Heils Goodwillcentra Amsterdam, and many more parties & sponsors involved in making this project come to life.
Photo credit: Wouter van der Sar