With a futuristic approach, Dubai Healthcare City is designed by Kalbod Architects to build a multi-functional complex focusing on medical services on Dubai seashores. The creative integration of digital and sustainable architecture, geographic and social conditions of the region, and acknowledging the future needs of tourists and citizens of Dubai were the primary fuels for designing the world’s largest medical tourism center in the Persian Gulf.
The project is defined in five different layers with a pedestrian-oriented approach. Each layer is dedicated to a specific use: the underwater layer consists of the main entrance, the only access route for cars and public transportation, as well as pedestrian access and public green spaces.
The next level focuses on the futuristic approach of the design and is designed for predicted future transportation. Reaching the land level, the crescent-shaped site plan symbolizes the traditional Arabic architecture style and embraces the buildings; the central tower for educational and cultural uses, 14 smaller towers dedicated to medical functions, and finally, smaller buildings supporting the island’s residential needs. The last two upper levels consist of the parametrically designed suspended path providing exclusive access to the residential zones and the suspended sterile pathway that connects the medical towers.
Along with all the design principles considered for Dubai Healthcare Center, the design meets the sustainable standards as the green spaces are not just dedicated to and small area but with the vertical garden idea, the vegetation grows on each terrace in the residential area with filters and soothes the harsh warm weather of the Persian Gulf.