Almana Hampina Wasi by Muhammed El Sepaey

Almana Hampina Wasi by Muhammed El Sepaey is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award Quri Premiu in Wasichiy Kamay Competition Category.

QuriWasichiy· 2024

Almana Hampina Wasi

by Muhammed El Sepaey

Client: Almana Group

A' Design Award Quri Premiu Winner in Wasichiy Category

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The Design

About Almana Hampina Wasi

Wasipa llamp'u muyunkunan k'iti, wayra, k'anchaypa pachamamanta puriyninta saqin. Kay ruway ñawpaq yachaykunata huñun k'anchaypaq, inti k'anchaypaq, q'uñiy-q'uñichiy sistemakunapaq unupa ch'uyanchay sistemakunapaq, chaykunan aswan pisi kallpata apaykuspa llank'anku kunan qhali kay kamachiykunata chayanankupaq otaq pasanankupaq, munaspa 50 pachak kallpa pisiyachiyta huk kaqlla ruwakunawan tupachispa. Muyu-muyu qhata-pampa rikch'akuy, wasip qaranpas hatun jampikunapaq pachamamamwan tantakuyta qun, ukhupi hawapi ima, mana unqusqakunamanta, llank'aqkunamanta, watuqkunamantapas, aswanpas wiñaypaq kawsay ruwaymanta.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Quri Premiu

Almana Hampina Wasi A' Design Award Quri Premiu mishak kan, ancha jatun yupaychay, kayta ñawpak kallari, sumak shinallatak mancharina diseñukunaman kun. Quri mishak kashkakunaka mushuk yuyay achka, ñawpakta rikuk shinallatak achikyaska rurashkakunami, paykunata rurakkunapak yachayta, yuyayta shinallatak ushayta rikuchinku. Almana Hampina Wasi ashtawan alabashka, mushuk ñankunata churak shinallatak hatun valorta kuk yuyay kanata munanku. Kay Quri Premiu japishka diseñuka hanak, yupaychashka rurashka kan, arti, siensia, diseñu shinallatak tekinolojía ñawpak ñankunata kichuk. Almana Hampina Wasi munayta kallarichin, yuyayta kallarichin, ruraytapash kallarichin shinallatak kuyaychin.

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