Almana Hôpital by Muhammed El Sepaey is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award d'Or in Design d'Architecture, Bâtiment et Structure Competition Category.

OrArchitecture· 2024

Almana Hôpital

by Muhammed El Sepaey

Client: Almana Group

A' Design Award d'Or Winner in Architecture Category

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The Design

About Almana Hôpital

Les courbes douces du bâtiment permettent un flux naturel de l'espace, de l'air et de la lumière. La conception combine des pratiques avancées en matière d'éclairage, d'éclairage naturel, de CVC et de systèmes de traitement de l'eau qui utilisent considérablement moins d'énergie tout en respectant ou dépassant les normes sanitaires actuelles, avec un objectif d'au moins 50 % de réduction énergétique par rapport aux installations similaires. La forme paysagère ondulante et l'enveloppe du bâtiment offrent une excellente connexion thérapeutique avec la nature, à l'intérieur comme à l'extérieur, non seulement du point de vue des patients, du personnel et des visiteurs, mais aussi du point de vue de la durabilité.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award d'Or

Almana Hôpital est lauréat de l'A' Design Award d'Or, une reconnaissance immensément prestigieuse décernée à des designs de premier ordre, merveilleux et remarquables. Les lauréats Or sont des créations extrêmement innovantes, visionnaires et d'un éclat glamour éblouissant, qui reflètent le génie, la sagesse et la maîtrise de leurs concepteurs. Almana Hôpital est censé être une invention très louée, avant-gardiste et monumentale, qui apporte une valeur sans précédent. Ce design lauréat de l'A' Design Award d'Or est un projet spectaculaire et respecté qui sert grandement l'art, la science, le design et la technologie et en repousse les limites. Almana Hôpital crée de vifs sentiments de désir, éveille la passion, encourage la créativité et nous fascine.

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