The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has awarded a hospital in Bangladesh with its prestigious RIBA International Prize 2021 for the architects for placing “care and humanity at the heart of its design”.
Designed by Kashef Chowdhury of URBANA, The Friendship Hospital, an 80-bed group hospital, is constructed in a area vulnerable to rising sea ranges and cyclones, with a finances of $2 million.
The hospital was commissioned by the NGO Friendship in an effort to present medical help to the individuals of Satkhira, an space of the coast that confronted the brunt of a cyclone in 2007. The mission’s chief architect, Chowdhury, instructed Al Jazeera in an interview, “We employed all local materials, local craftsmen… People in the surrounding areas were villagers and we had to be sure that they would accept this as a place, where they could come for care.”
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– Friendship Hospital ShyamnagarOur hospital in Shyamnagar has simply been awarded @RIBA International Prize 2021 for its climate-friendly design. #RIBAInternationalPrize #RIBAAwards #ArtitechtureAwards #Artitechture pic.twitter.com/8wveBtaJtV
— Friendship (@friendship_ngo) January 26, 2022
Besides the bricklaid construction, crucial and attention-grabbing characteristic of the hospital is the canal that zig-zags by way of, separating the inpatient and outpatient sections. It additionally helps with harvesting treasured rainwater as the encircling water is just too saline for ingesting functions. The canal additionally helps with microclimatic cooling, ensuing within the hospital being an air con free constructing, additional highlighting the local weather aware design of the construction.
The #FriendshipHospital Provides a soothing sensory setting for sufferers to heal, amidst pure air flow, daylight and a zig-zagging canal which preserves rainwater. It has thus been awarded, the perfect constructing on this planet by @RIBA, #RIBAInternationalPrize
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— Friendship (@friendship_ngo) January 30, 2022
The constructing was designed protecting not simply the bodily care of sufferers into consideration but additionally psychological care, particularly on the time of therapeutic from illnesses, which explains the sequence of courtyards, gardens, swimming pools, and bushes that permit ample pure mild and breeze.
Celebrated architect Odile Decq, who’s the chair of the RIBA jury, mentioned the mission “embodies an architecture of humanity and protection,” and that it’s “related to important international challenges, corresponding to unequal entry to healthcare and the crushing influence of local weather breakdown on susceptible communities”, as per a report on The Guardian,
The RIBA award acknowledges initiatives from world wide that show design excellence centered in social influence, It was earlier awarded to a distant faculty made from wooden in Brazil, and a concrete cliff-like constructing in Peru.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
