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Du Noon Community Health Centre
Du Noon Community Health Centre
Cape Town, South Africa
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Du Noon Community Health Centre
Cape Town, South Africa
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2013
SIZE
25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft
BUDGET
$1M - 5M
The Du Noon Community Health Centre in Cape Town was completed in 2013. Commissioned by the Provincial Government of the Western Cape the new facility serves the surrounding area as well as a community of new urban dwellers from the Du Noon informal settlement where there were no formal health facilities.
Designed by the architects as a "building-as-city" with a series of squares, garden courts and streets the building presents a new typology for the Health Sector in the 'Post-Apartheid' democratic South Africa.
The careful use of natural light and ventilation with a robust circulation system of streets and assembly spaces, legible super-graphics and garden courts was a considered approach to the design of a new public health prototype. The architect reveals his urbanist foundations with a densified plan that is essentially a city block dissected by internal streets and punctuated by a series of courts and squares.
Situated in an industrial area, the building draws on the industrial vocabulary of the context with a concrete frame construction, high lightweight steel roofs, and chimney stacks and ventilated roofs for ventilation.
In Informal Settlements the provision of Health Facilities is crucial to living in a harsh urban reality. The public spaces are generous and light, with natural ventilation used where possible. Colour coding and super-graphics and the use of the native Xhosa-language in way-finding of the facility accommodates illiteracy and cultural diversity
Designed by the architects as a "building-as-city" with a series of squares, garden courts and streets the building presents a new typology for the Health Sector in the 'Post-Apartheid' democratic South Africa.
The careful use of natural light and ventilation with a robust circulation system of streets and assembly spaces, legible super-graphics and garden courts was a considered approach to the design of a new public health prototype. The architect reveals his urbanist foundations with a densified plan that is essentially a city block dissected by internal streets and punctuated by a series of courts and squares.
Situated in an industrial area, the building draws on the industrial vocabulary of the context with a concrete frame construction, high lightweight steel roofs, and chimney stacks and ventilated roofs for ventilation.
In Informal Settlements the provision of Health Facilities is crucial to living in a harsh urban reality. The public spaces are generous and light, with natural ventilation used where possible. Colour coding and super-graphics and the use of the native Xhosa-language in way-finding of the facility accommodates illiteracy and cultural diversity
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