Modular 'Green' Clinic

 

The graduation project is to design a modular clinic located in local communities in Al Ain in the hot arid climate of the UAE. The clinic targets the residents of local communities in Al Ain to provide them their health needs and helps improving the well-being conditions through small scaled local clinics not hospitals. Local communities in Al Ain lack health facilities such as green clinics and the capacity of these clinics is neither adaptable nor adequate to welcome huge number of patients. They are designed as villas design. In this aspect our adaptive clinic unit size plays the important role. 

The modular design is flexible and can accommodate the available area in any site besides the density of the local community since it can expand and shrink as desired.  As the population of the selected site increases, the clinic modular design can adapt accordingly by adding more units. On contrast, as the population decreases the clinic can also shrink by removing units. 

The clinic is required to be sustainable and achieve Estidama Pearl 1 Rating System hence, building sustainable strategies which are effective in Al Ain climate need to be integrated with the design.

We aim in this project to attain firstly, a full design level for the clinic sustainable architecture and technical drawings. Secondly, a full design and integration of sustainable building construction systems and materials. Thirdly, partial design level for building management containing construction of WBS, cost estimation and design of one activity using primavera software. Fourthly, an application level for the sustainable structural system covering system selection and calculation. Finally, sustainable electrical and mechanical systems are to be covered in comprehensive level.

 

Take notice that any captions in figures and tables that are missing references, means that they are done by authors. In addition, nomenclature and references are sorted in ascending alphabetical order. Also, the project is designed completely before the expansion phase however, same design process can be done repeatedly in adding the expandable units in the expansion phase.