Almana Sygehus by Muhammed El Sepaey is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award i Guld in Arkitektur-, Bygnings- og Konstruktionsdesign Competition Category.

GuldArkitektur· 2024

Almana Sygehus

by Muhammed El Sepaey

Client: Almana Group

A' Design Award i Guld Winner in Arkitektur Category

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The Design

About Almana Sygehus

Bygningens bløde kurver giver mulighed for naturlig strømning af rum, luft og lys. Designet kombinerer avancerede metoder for belysning, dagslys, HVAC og vandbehandlingssystemer, der bruger betydeligt mindre energi, mens de præsterer på eller over nuværende sundhedsstandarder, med et mål om mindst 50 procent energireduktion sammenlignet med lignende faciliteter. Den bølgende landskabsform og klimaskærm skaber en stærk helende forbindelse til naturen, indvendigt og udvendigt, ikke kun fra patient-, personale- og besøgsperspektiv, men også fra et bæredygtighedsperspektiv.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award i Guld

Almana Sygehus er vinder af A' Design Award i Guld, en uhyre prestigefyldt anerkendelse, der tildeles førsteklasses, vidunderlige og fremragende designs. Guldvinderne er yderst innovative, højt visionære og glamourøst blændende skabelser, der afspejler deres designeres geni, visdom og dygtighed. Almana Sygehus forventes at være en højt rost, trendsættende og monumental opfindelse, der leverer hidtil uset værdi. Dette design, der har vundet A' Design Award i Guld, er et spektakulært, respekteret projekt, som i høj grad gavner og flytter grænserne for kunst, videnskab, design og teknologi. Almana Sygehus skaber intense følelser af begær, vækker passion, opmuntrer kreativitet og fascinerer os.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

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