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NORD Architects wins new healthcare center competition

By Sebastian J — Filed under: Health , , ,
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NORD Architects/MIR

The young office NORD Architects has won the competition for a new healthcare center for cancer patients in Copenhagen, Denmark. The winning design is founded by principles of healing architecture and at the same time it suggests aesthetics which are in contrast with that of a conventional health institution.

The design is an elaboration on the recognizable contour and scale of a house. At the same time the design becomes an iconographic building, as the small individual houses are interconnected by a sculptural roof structure. The building is enriched by the close relation to the surrounding landscape consisting of an inner courtyard, several terraces and themed gardens.

The design will be realised in collaboration with Hellerup Byg, Bravida Danmark, Wessberg Ingeniører and Metopos Landscape. More images after the break. read more »

T-Clinic / Suppose Design Office

By Nico Saieh — Filed under: Health , Selected , , ,

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Architects: Suppose Design Office
Location: Kure city, Hirosihima, Japan
Program: Clinic
Site area: 228.74 sqm
Building area: 172.50 sqm
Total floor area: 498.33 sqm
Photographs: Toshiyuki Yano from Nacasa&Partners Inc.

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AD Round Up: Health Architecture Part II

By Sebastian J — Filed under: AD Round Up , Health

Because health is very important for everyone, we bring you our second part of Health Architecture previously featured on ArchDaily. In case you missed it, check the first one here!

1National Heart Center in Singapore / Broadway Malyan
Broadway Malyan’s ten story hospital is formatted to minimize travel distances for patients. The first six floors house the active zone of the hospital, with labs, facilities for surgery, radiology, and similar programs. The upper part of the building, floors 7-10, focus on portions that are patient-free, such as facilities for staff training (read more…)

2GKK Dental Ambulatory / x Architekten
The relocation of various businesses from the Voestalpine steel manufacturer’s premises included the dental clinic of the Upper Austrian regional medical insurance company. The nearby “Service Zone” was chosen as the new location. The task was to create a modern clinic on a 525 sqm plot which offers the dentists the best possible (read more…)

3Santa Rita Geriatric Center / Manuel Ocaña
Geriatric centers should be optimistic places appealing to live in or to visit. The idea is to create a characteristic atmosphere in a vital space where spare time prevails and where residents spend the last years or months of their lives. The fact is that it is possible to build a geriatric center that does not look like a hospital (read more…)

4Ananda Clinic / Forma-i
The clinic construction was completed in December 2008 and subsequently refurbished and officially opened in January 2009. The project was originally planned as a space to accommodate young patients in three different specializations: orthodontist, physiotherapist and psychologist. The main idea behind the project was (read more…)

5Polyclinic / 3LDH Architects
Our friends from 3LHD shared their awarded competition proposal for a private medical center for Firule in Split, Croatia. The Polyclinic is situated close to the sea and its fresh air, near an existing hospital complex. Due to the programmatic and functional demands of such a project the architects developed (read more…)

Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School / RMJM

By Sebastian J — Filed under: Health , ,

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The RMJM designed Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School (Duke-NUS), the first collaboration of its kind in Singapore between two of the world’s top higher education institutions – Duke University in the U.S. and National University of Singapore – was opened yesterday, September 28th, by the country’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.

The new school building designed by international architects RMJM, will significantly boost the number of highly trained doctors in the country, demonstrating Singapore’s commitment to becoming a world leader in healthcare and biomedical research.

At 26,000 square meters and 11 stories tall, Duke-NUS is a “vertical campus,” housing research offices, wet and dry laboratories, classrooms, lecture halls, a library, student lounges, a café and administrative offices. The placement of the building’s functions and programs were designed to build the academic community and promote scientific collaboration. More description and images after the break. read more »

Akershus University Hosptial / C.F.Møller Architects

By Nico Saieh — Filed under: Health , Selected , ,
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© Torben Eskerod

Architects: C.F.Møller Architects
Location: Oslo, Norway
Collaborators: Multiconsult AS, SWECO AS, Hjellnes COWI AS / Interconsult ASA, Ingemannson Technology, Nosyko/Erstad og Lekven
Client: Helse Sør-Øst RHF
Landscape: Bjørbekk & Lindheim AS, Schønherr Landskab A/S
Artists Involved: Troels Wörsel, Gunilla Klingberg, Mari Slaattelid, Knut Henrik Henriksen, Jan Christensen, Tony Cragg, Birgir Andrésson, Petteri Nisunen, Tommi Grönlund, Julie Nord, Per Sundberg, Vesa Honkonen, Janna Thöle-Juul, Kristine Halmrast, Mikkel Rasmussen Hofplass
Project year: 2000-2008
Constructed Area: 137,000 sqm
Photographs: Torben Eskerod & C.F.Møller Architects

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Jerusalem / ARJM

By Sebastian J — Filed under: Health , Housing , ,
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Architect: ARJM (Abdelmajid Boulaioun)
Location: rue de Jerusalem, Chaussée de Haecht, Schaerbeek, Brussels, Belguim
Project: 5 logements Social + Cabinet médical
Project Team: Abdelmajid Boulaioun, Jean-Marie Bertin, Michel Cuypers, Emmanuel Toglet, Ryo Inagaki
Structural Engineer: Michael Nguen, Brussels
Client: Renovas ASBL
Contractor: Balcan, Brussels
Project Year: 2009
Photograph: Filip Dujardin

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Pima County Behavioral Health Pavilion and Crisis Response Center / Cannon Design

By Karen Cilento — Filed under: Health , News , Sustainability , ,

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Cannon Design shared with us their latest mental health center for Pima County.  The project creates a “holistic healing campus” to serve various facets of behavioral medicine.  By integrating the architectural design with the raw beauty of the Sonora Desert, the project “balances the challenges of a complex interdisciplinary program, unique environmental conditions, and a lean construction budget.”

More about the health center and more images after the break. read more »

Polyclinic / 3LDH Architects

By Karen Cilento — Filed under: Awarded Competitions , Health , News , , ,

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Our friends from 3LHD shared their awarded competition proposal for a private medical center for Firule in Split, Croatia.  The Polyclinic is situated close to the sea and its fresh air, near an existing hospital complex.

More about the clinic after the break. read more »

Natasha Skin Care / TWS & Partners

By Nico Saieh — Filed under: Health , Leisure , Selected , ,

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Architects: TWS & Partners
Location: Bandung, Indonesia
Principal in charge: Tonny W Suriadjaja
Project team: Inge, Budi Setiawan, Grace Dian, Arianto
Client: Private
Structural engineers: Habitat
Lighting design: TWS & Partners
Main contractor: Habitat
Glass skin specialist: Eztu Glass
Constructed area: 1,000 sqm
Design year: 2006
Construction year: 2007
Photographs: Hartama Barus

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Ananda Clinic / Forma-i

By Nico Saieh — Filed under: Health , Selected , , ,

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Architect: Loriane m. Icibaci / Forma-i
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
Client: F. Maeda
Construction Area: 360 sqm
Contractor: Villaromana
Technical inspector and engineering: Jose furlan
Electrical project: Pires, Scala
Sanitary: Hydromar
Window system: Tres Irmaos
Project year: 2008-2009
Photographs: Forma-i

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Sunbeams Music Center / Napper Architects

By Karen Cilento — Filed under: Health , News , , ,

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Napper Architects shared their design for the Sunbeams Music Center, a project for a charity based in England that works with handicapped people of all ages.  The project will be the first of its kind as it will offer a new music therapy center that is closely linked with its surroundings.  The Sunbeams Music Trust, a charity started almost 15 years ago by local resident Annie Mawson, “uses music in a therapeutic way to encourage communication and social inclusion, build up self-esteem, and self-confidence, and improve quality of life, making a real difference in people’s lives.”  The small charity has now grown to become one of the leading Arts In Health organizations in the United Kingdom. “We are thrilled Eden District Council has recognized that the Sunbeams Music Center will be an architecturally unique and inspirational building. Not only can Sunbeams transform the way they help people, the center is designed to enhance and work with the surrounding landscape,” explained Ms. Mawson.

More about the Music Center after the break. read more »

AD Round Up: Health Architecture Part I

By Sebastian J — Filed under: AD Round Up , Health

Different kinds of health architecture in different parts of the world. From Portugal, Netherlands, Japan, Sudan and Burkina Faso, we bring you our Round Up of previously featured health architecture projects on ArchDaily.

Kinderstad / Sponge Architects & Rupali Gupta + IOU Architecture
The goal of “Kinderstad” is to extract the sick child, its family and friends from the unpleasant surrounding of a hospital and to enable an encounter in a much better atmosphere. This new specialised type of health care for sick children gives the visitors the chance to forget for a moment that the child is sick and to facilitate the normal development of the young patients (read more…)

Vila de Conde Hospital Pediatric Wing / 100 Planos Arquitectura
We were asked to build a pediatric wing on a very damaged XIX century hospital. The idea was to create a building that didn’t look like a hospital, where children and adults feld as if they were at home. An emotional, simple and non clinic, yet efficient space, were blue a white domain, under the doctors colorful closes. The interior space is organized by two parallel corridors (read more…)

Children’s Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation / Sou Fujimoto
This is the treatment center for mentally disturbed children where they live together to get regaining their mental health. It may be thought that it is a very special building when I write so, but it is truly rich life space that requested in origin like a large house and also like a small city, the intimacy of a house and also the variety of the city. This is a proposal of a loose method (read more…)

Women’s Health Centre / FARE
The social/health-services program developed by AIDOS, together with its local partners was focused on providing the educational services, information and awareness about women’s sexual and reproductive rights in Sector 27 of Ouagadougou, a peripheral urban area settled by the rural population. The social program called for the realization of a building complex (read more…)

Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery / Studio Tam associati
The hospital has been developed around an empty space, physically and ideally occupied by two enormous mango trees, located at the centre of the site (a plot of land on the banks of the Nile about 20 km from Khartoum). This is a symbolic space from which all the trajectories along which the building grew, were born. In line with traditional housing structures, the hospital is configured around a hollow space (read more…)

Al Maktoum A&E Hospital / Perkins Eastman

By Sebastian J — Filed under: Health , ,

Our friends from Perkins Eastman sent us their design for Al Maktoum Accident and Emergency (A&E) Hospital-the newest and most sophisticated Accident and Emergency Hospital of its kind in the UAE.

Chosen by the Dubai Health Authority and the Department of Health and Medical Services (DOHMS) to create an advanced A/E hospital, Perkins Eastman designed a facility capable of providing immediate care for minor- to high-level trauma. An ambulance receiving area is directly linked to a surgical trauma operating suite and a diagnostic imaging unit with MRI, CT, and X-ray capabilities. The 300-bed, 85,000 facility includes a large, five-floor nursing unit providing specialized treatment and care for patients recovering from surgery.

More images after the break. read more »

Taiwan Center for Disease Control Complex / Studio Shift

By Karen Cilento — Filed under: Health , News , ,

Studio Shift received an honorable mention for their design of the Taiwan Center for Disease Control.  The complex, which fuses public landscape with scientific research, is poised to be one of Taiwan’s most important scientific centers.  ”The complex will set a new standard in laboratory and research facilities design, paralleling the work that will inevitably take place behind its walls,” stated the architects.

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Santa Rita Geriatric Center / Manuel Ocaña

By Nico Saieh — Filed under: Health , Institutional Architecture , Selected , , ,

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Architect: Manuel Ocaña
Location: Ciutadella, Illes Baleares, Spain
Competition team: Christian Fink, Benjamin Scharf, Celia López, Laura Rojo
Project team: Fermina Garrido, Elisa Fernández, Malgosia Czaban
Construction team: Maja Frackowiatz, Michael Rabold, Víctor Navarro, Roberto González, Sebastian Dillner
Services: Juan Travesí
Landscaping: Teresa Galí
Structure Engineer: J.M. Churtichaga
Technical Architect: Joan Camps
Promotor: Consell Insular de Menorca
Contractor: OHL
Budget: $5.200.000 € (garden included)  - $868€/sqm
Area: 5.990 sqm building + 6.200 sqm gardens
Project year: 2002-2003
Construction year: 2004-2009
Photographs: Miguel de Guzmán

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GKK Dental Ambulatory / x Architekten

By Nico Saieh — Filed under: Health , Interiors , Selected , , , , , ,

Architects: x Architekten
Location: Oberösterreich, Austria
Client: APK Pensionskasse AG
Construction: Polycarbonate, PVC, Glass, Wood
Constructed Area: 525 sqm
Project Year: 2006-2008
Photographs: Max Nirnberger

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Children’s Hospital Prototype / Visiondivision

By Karen Cilento — Filed under: Health , News , ,

Visiondivision, an international young practice, shared with us their competition entry for a children’s hospital prototype for Rwanda.  The competition, entitled “Design for the Children”, asks architects and designers to develop a sustainable, culturally responsive, pediatric clinic model for East Africa.
 

More images and further project description after the break.

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National Heart Center in Singapore / Broadway Malyan

By Karen Cilento — Filed under: Health , News , Public Facilities , , ,

Broadway Malyan, an international firm with offices in the UK, Europe, Middle East and Asia, recently presented their design for the National Heart Center in Singapore. This hospital is a part of a larger master plan that will redevelop the country’s General Hospital Outram Campus in a more technologically advanced and environmentally friendly way.

Project description and more images after break.

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Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery / Studio Tam associati

By Nico Saieh — Filed under: Health , Selected , , ,

Architects: Studio Tam associati
Location: Soba (Khartoum), Sudan
Project Team: Raul Pantaleo, Simone Sfriso, Massimo Lepore, Sebastiano Crescini with Pietro Parrino and Gino Strada
Feasability project: Gino Strada, Eniliano Cinelli, Fabrizio Fasano, Andrea Cioffi
Program coordinator: Pietro Parrino, Rossella Miccio (Emergency NGO)
Consultants: Francesco Steffinlongo (structural engineering), Studio Pasquini with Jean Paul Riviere and Nicola Zoppi (mechanical/services engineering), Franco Binetti (Operating Theatre design)
Site Engineer: Roberto Crestan & Alessandro Giacomello
Project year: 2007
Bed Capacity: 63
Photographs: Marcello Bonfanti

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Learning from the slums (2/2): the rediscovery

By Marco Castroni — Filed under: AD Round Up , Health , Housing , News , Politics , Refurbishment , Sustainability , Theory and History , Urban Design , Urban Planning , , , , , , ,

The model #1: Napoli, quartieri Spagnoli (image: flickr)

If the mainstream view on the slums describes them as places to escape from and as to destroy as soon as possible, more and more people look at slums in a different way.

The first glances at slums were from some of the architects involved in urban renewal projects, who started to integrate in their projects some elements of the slums. Some of the recurrent features are:

  • narrow courtyards and alleys
  • division of the building into small blocks
  • use of different colors and materials within the same building.

(part 1/2)

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