Almana Hospitali by Muhammed El Sepaey is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 Tuzo ya Dhahabu ya A' Design Award in Usanifu wa Majengo, Ujenzi na Miundo Competition Category.

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Almana Hospitali

by Muhammed El Sepaey

Client: Almana Group

Tuzo ya Dhahabu ya A' Design Award Winner in Usanifu wa Majengo Category

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The Design

About Almana Hospitali

Mipindo laini ya jengo inaruhusu mtiririko wa asili wa nafasi, hewa na nuru. Muundo huu unachanganya mbinu za kisasa za taa, nuru ya mchana, mifumo ya joto na upepo, na mifumo ya kusafisha maji ambayo hutumia nishati ndogo sana huku ikifanya kazi kwa kiwango au zaidi ya viwango vya afya vya sasa, lengo likiwa kupunguza matumizi ya nishati kwa asilimia 50 au zaidi ikilinganishwa na vituo vifananayo. Muundo wa mandhari yenye mawimbi na gamba la jengo hutoa uhusiano mzuri wa uponyaji na asili, ndani na nje, si tu kwa upande wa wagonjwa, wafanyakazi na wageni, lakini pia kwa upande wa uendelevu.

The Recognition

About the Tuzo ya Dhahabu ya A' Design Award

Almana Hospitali ni mshindi wa Tuzo ya Dhahabu ya A' Design Award, utambuzi wenye heshima kuu unaotolewa kwa miundo ya daraja la kwanza, ya ajabu na ya kuvutia. Washindi wa Dhahabu ni kazi bunifu mno, zenye maono makubwa na za kung'aa kwa umaridadi zinazoakisi kipaji, hekima na ustadi wa wabunifu wao. Almana Hospitali inatarajiwa kuwa uvumbuzi unaosifiwa sana, wa kuweka mielekeo na wa kihistoria unaoleta thamani isiyo na kifani. Muundo huu ulioshinda Tuzo ya Dhahabu ya A' Design Award ni mradi wa kustaajabisha na unaoheshimika unaonufaisha sana na kupanua mipaka ya sanaa, sayansi, usanifu na teknolojia. Almana Hospitali huzua hisia kali za hamu, huamsha shauku, huhimiza ubunifu na hutuvutia.

Behind the Design

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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