Winner of Hospital Build 2011 award for Best Sustainable Hospital Project
Al Jalila Childrens Specialty Hospital By Arch. Giulio Altieri, Studio Altieri, Italy
IN SHORT
■Al Jalila Childrens Specialty Hospital won the Hospital Build Award for Best Sustainable Hospital Project in June 2011
■The architecture of Al Jalila Childrens Specialty Hospital is strongly integrated with the child’s healing process
Rashid Al Maktoum, vice president of the UAE and ruler of Dubai, and designed by the Italian firm ‘Studio Altieri’, offered a great opportunity to review the traditional standards of hospital layout, applying innovative concepts where the architecture is strongly integrated with the child’s healing process. In fact, the main goal of excellence in healthcare services is supported by some architectural principles that increase the therapeutic performance of the institution, fostering physical and psychological comfort and also basing the idea of the new building on efficient and logistical needs. Located in the exiting area of the Al Wasl
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he ‘Al Jalila Children Specialty Hospital’, a donation from His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin
Hospital campus in Dubai, this stand-alone structure is composed of one basement plus four levels, providing tertiary and quaternary, highly specialized healthcare assistance for 200 inpatients, 40 intensive care beds and six for dialysis. The structure also houses accommodation for families as well as three suites dedicated to the Royal Family, in a total area of 67.000sqm, completely surrounded by green spaces and gardens. The basement contains all the functions
to supply all the upper levels, completed with a 400 seat auditorium for congresses and meetings, with an IT system and an internal broadcast that allows connection with the operating rooms, cath labs and also with the inpatients rooms if there is a special show for them.
Images © Studio Altieri
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