Oru Architettura · 2024
Almana Uspidale
- A' Design Award d'Oru 2024 in Architettura
- CLIENT: Almana Group
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 93,676
- Verification code 972835F173 · Verify this award
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About Almana Uspidale
E curve garbate di l'edifiziu permettenu u flussu naturale di u spaziu, di l'aria è di a luce. U disignu combina pratiche avanzate per l'illuminazione, a luce naturale, u HVAC è i sistemi di trattamentu di l'acqua chì utilizanu significativamente menu energia mantendu una prestazione uguale o superiore à e norme sanitarie attuali, cù un ubiettivu di almenu 50 per centu di riduzzione energetica paragunatu à strutture simili. A forma ondulata di u paisaghju è l'involucru di l'edifiziu furniscenu una grande cunnessione terapeutica cù a natura, dentru è fora, micca solu da i punti di vista di i pazienti, di u persunale è di i visitatori, ma ancu da un puntu di vista di sustenibilità.
About the A' Design Award d'Oru
Almana Uspidale hè un vincitore di u premiu A' Design Award d'Oru, una ricunniscenza immensamente prestigiosa attribuita à i disegni di prima categuria, maravigliosi è straordinarii. I vincitori d'Oru sò creazioni estremamente innuvatrici, assai visiunarie è lucentemente abbagliante chì riflettenu u geniu, a saviezza è l'abilità di i so disegnatori. Si aspetta chì Almana Uspidale sia una invenzione assai elogiata, pionera di tendenze è monumentale, chì furnisce un valore senza precedente. Stu disegnu vincitore di u premiu A' Design Award d'Oru hè un prughjettu spettaculare è rispettatu chì benefizia assai è allarga i limiti di l'arte, di a scienza, di u disegnu è di a tecnulugia. Almana Uspidale crea sentimenti intensi di disideriu, evoca passione, incuraghjisce a creatività è ci affascina.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- Well-designed healthcare environments can reduce patients’ anxiety and stress, accelerate recovery, shorten hospitalizations, reduce medication use, lessen pain, and promote a sense of well-being. On the organizational level, therapeutic environments can help enhancing staff recruitment, satisfaction, productivity and retention. In addition, The physical setting is the patient's first impression of a healthcare facility.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- General Hospital
7 floors
65 000 m2
200 beds | 75 clinics | 600 cars - Tags
- Healthcare Design, Healing environment, Hospital
- Production Technology
- The design was based on natural light and natural materials. High performance glazing system was chosen for elevations and skylight to get the most healthy use of daylight. ACP Panels was chosen for exterior cladding.
- Design Challenge
- The real challenge was how to adapt the design to create a healing environment that in turn reduces patients' anxiety and stress, speeds recovery, shortens hospitalization, reduces medication use, reduces pain, and promotes well-being. At the organizational level, healing environments can help enhance employee recruitment, satisfaction, productivity, and retention.
- Research
- Flexible and adaptable
clear functional zoning, segregate internal user and logistic flows, size rooms for flexible usage, staff and patient entrances.
Operationally efficient
lean design, modular arrangements, design repetition, smaller facilities, cost effective aiming for, streamlined service, faster response times, improved outcomes, improved patient turnover.
Safety by design
nothing touches the floor, integrated, touch technology, surface minimization, seamless wall finish systems ,ease to clean surfaces, disinfection.
Patient centric healing environment
large open space concourses, natural light and space lifts the mood, flexibility for peak capacity. - Inspiration
- The gentle curves of the building allowing for the natural flow of space, air and light. The design combines advanced practices for lighting, day-lighting, and water treatment systems that use significantly less energy while performing at or above current health standards, with a target of at least 50 percent energy reduction compared to similar facilities.
The undulating landscape form and building envelope provide a great healing connection to nature, inside and out, not only from patient, staff and visitor aspects, but from a sustainability aspect. The design creates a clear separation of zones of activities, with departments and functions located based on access point proximity, flow and way-finding. All patient rooms and staff spaces provide access to outside views and landscaped terraces.
The design melded spaces and forms into continuous, dynamic constructions. Moreover, it furthered the approach by weaving curved walkways and vertical elevators together so that the architecture itself guides visitors through the related departments - Project Duration
- Dammam, Saudi Arabia
2018 -2023 - Operation Flow
- The design creates a clear separation of zones of activities, with departments and functions located based on access point proximity, flow and way-finding. Design of building is modular so there is ease of understanding, movement and fining the required section.
- Patents
- Muhammed El Sepaey, 2023
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer Alwaleed Fazee, Perspective, 2023
Image #2: Photographer Alwaleed Fazee, Perspective, 2023
Image #3: Photographer Alwaleed Fazee, Perspective, 2023
Image #4: Photographer Alwaleed Fazee, Perspective, 2023
Image #5: Photographer Alwaleed Fazee, Perspective, 2023
Video Credits: Alwaleed Fazee, 2023
