Ouro Arquitectura · 2024
Almana Hospital
- A' Design Award de Ouro 2024 in Arquitectura
- CLIENT: Almana Group
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 93,676
- Verification code 972835F173 · Verify this award
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About Almana Hospital
As curvas suaves do edificio permiten o fluxo natural do espazo, aire e luz. O deseño combina prácticas avanzadas de iluminación, iluminación natural, HVAC e sistemas de tratamento de auga que usan significativamente menos enerxía mentres renden ao nivel ou por riba dos estándares sanitarios actuais, cun obxectivo de polo menos un 50 por cento de redución enerxética comparado con instalacións similares. A forma ondulante da paisaxe e a envolvente do edificio proporcionan unha gran conexión curativa coa natureza, dentro e fóra, non só desde os aspectos de paciente, persoal e visitante, senón tamén desde un aspecto de sustentabilidade.
About the A' Design Award de Ouro
Almana Hospital gañou o A' Design Award de Ouro, un recoñecemento inmensamente prestixioso outorgado a deseños de primeira clase, marabillosos e sobresaíntes. Os gañadores Ouro son creacións sumamente innovadoras, visionarias e glamurosamente deslumbrantes que reflicten o xenio, a sabedoría e a destreza dos seus deseñadores. Espérase que Almana Hospital sexa unha invención moi eloxiada, pioneira e monumental que ofrece un valor sen precedentes. Este deseño gañador do A' Design Award de Ouro é un proxecto espectacular e respectado que beneficia moito a arte, a ciencia, o deseño e a tecnoloxía e fai avanzar os seus límites. Almana Hospital crea intensos sentimentos de desexo, esperta a paixón, anima a creatividade e fascina.
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- 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
