DESIGN FOR THE CHILDREN - clinic on stilts

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300,000 sqft - 500,000 sqft

A CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN CONCEPT BASED ON THE DIALECTICS BETWEEN CONTINUATION OF VERNACULAR CONSTRUCTION FORM( TIPICAL STILT HOUSES FROM LAKE NOKWÉ, BENIN, WEST AFRICA; IBAN LONG HOUSE, BORNEO; TYPICAL WHITE WASHED WALLS FROM CUBIC CONSTRUCTIONS IN THE CYCLADES, GREECE, DEFLECTING THE SUN RAYS AND REDUCING THE SOLAR GAIN; TRADITIONAL FRAME-AND-MAT STRUCTURES, ETHIOPIA) WHILE CREATING A NEW BUILDING TYPE WITH A STRONG IDENTITY AND REFERENCE. ARE SUPPORT OF THIS DESIGN CONCEPT VALUES SUCH LIKE SUSTAINABILITY, MOBILITY, TRADITION AND REINTERPRETATION OF THIS SAME TRADITION. THIS PROJECT CLAIMS TO BE SEENED PURELY AS A CONCEPT ONCE IT ALLOWS ABSOLUTE FREEDOM TO ADAPT TO THE DIFERENT CULTURES TROUGHOUT EAST AFRICA. IT CAN BE CONSTRUCTED PARCIALY OU TOTALY (PLATFORM) AND CAN BE CONSTANTLY REARRANGED, SINCE THE PROGRAMATIC NECESSITIES WHERE FORMALIZED AS EACH ONE BEING A SINGLE LIGHT STRUCTURE. THIS CONTROLS THE COSTS OF THE PROGRAMATIC ADDITION BY A SIMPLE BUT EFFICIENT CONSTRUCTION SOLUTION.
THE CLINIC CONCEPT SETS ON A LARGE PLATFORM ALLOWING SEVERAL ADVANTAGES: 1. CONSTRUCTION EITHER ON A FLAT OR TERRACED PLOT; 2. ELEVATED PLATFORM ALSO RESPONDS TO THE THEFT PROBLEM, ONCE ALL THE CLINIC PROGRAM IS ELEVATED 3.6 METERS FROM THE GROUND, AND A PERIPHERICAL SECURITY WALL WOULD BE LESS DIFICULT TO CLIMB; 3. ALL THE INFRA STRUCTURES SUCH AS ELECTRICITY, WATER, PLUMBING, CAN BE INSTALED UNTHERNEATH, HAVING CONSTANT VENTILATION; 4. THE ELEVATED PLATFORM CAN BE A GREAT MEETING POINT FOR EVERYONE WHO CROSSES NEARBY THE COMPLEX, AND FOR THE CLINIC USERS IT IS A WIDE SHELTER UNDERNEATH, A SHADY STRUCTURE WHERE PEOPLE CAN WAIT DURING THE DAY, OR TO REST AFTER A LONG JOURNEY; 5. ALL CLINIC SPACES ARE TOTALY VENTILATED BECAUSE THEY DO NOT SET ON THE GROUND, AND THE CONSTRUCTION SYSTEM FOR EACH PROGRAMATIC AREA ALLOW SPACES WITH HIGH SALUBRITY WITH PASSIVE MEANS OF AIR RENOWAL; 6. BESIDES THE PROGRAMATIC STRUCTURES ( FOR EXAMPLE: EXAM ROOMS, PHARMACY,) THERE WERE DESIGNED ROOFLESS BOXES WHERE TO PLACE THE CLINIC AREAS. THESE PERIPHERICAL WALLS BESIDES GENERATING CLUSTERS, ALSO PROTECT EACH AREA FROM THE WINDS, GENERATING A MICRO CLIMATE. THESE WALLS ALSO FUNCTION A SECOND BARRIER AGAINS THE THEFT PROBLEM, ONCE THEY CAN BE CLOSE BY THE USE OF GATES. (see plan) SENSE OF INTIMACY IS GIVEN WITH THIS SOLUTION. INSIDE THESE WALLS THE CLINIC PROGRAM CAN BE PLACED WITH ABSOLUTE FREEDOM. THE WALLS ARE MADE OF BRICK AND WHITE WASHED PLASTERED SO THAT IT CAN DEFLECT THE SUN RAYS AND REDUCING THE SOLAR GAIN,GENERATING MORE COOL, FRESH AND SALUBRE SPACES; 7. UNDER THE PLATFORM LIES THE GREAT CISTERN THAT AT SOME POINT RISES IN THE SKY BY THE SHAPE OF A VERTICAL ELEMENT THAT WILL BECOME REFERENTIAL AND IDENTIFIABLE; 8. SOLAR PANEL WIL BE INSTALLED TROUGH OUT THE PLATFORM SO THAT IT CAN BE A SELF SUFICIENT COMPLEX IN THE LANDSCAPE OF EAST AFRICA.
THE GREAT PLATFORM IS NOT AND UNFLEXIBLE SOLUTION. IT CAN BE MODIFIED GENERATING A WIDE AMPHITHEATRE WHERE THE CLINIC POPULATION CAN SOCIALIZE, REST AND LEARN. THIS AMPHITHEATRE IS IRREGULAR SO THAT THERE ARE DIFERENT KINDS OF AREAS REGARDING ALL THE DIFERENT KINDS OF POSSIBLE USES. THE COVERING OF THIS WIDE SPACE IS MADE BY A SET OF TENSIONATED STEEL CABLES FIXATED TO TWO PARALEL WALLS. TROUGH THE STEEL CABLES ROLL, LIKE CORTINES, ELASTIC MEMBRANES SO THAT CAN BE GENERATED SHADY SPACES. THE AMPHITHEATRE CAN BE COMPLETELY COVERED OR PARTIALLY. THOUGHOUT THE PLATFORM THERE ARE LIGTH WELLS SO THAT LIGHT CAN REACH UNDERNEATH.

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DESIGN FOR THE CHILDREN - clinic on stilts

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