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The Al Daayan Health District in Doha, Qatar, project, led by OMA partner Reinier de Graaf, project manager Alex de Jong, and project architect Kaveh Dabiri, is located on a 1.3-million-m2(14-million sf) plot. <\/span>Photo courtesy OMA<\/span><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

OMA \/ Reinier de Graaf and Buro Happold have finalized the design for the Al Daayan Health District in Doha, Qatar, commissioned by Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC).<\/p>\n

The project, led by OMA partner Reinier de Graaf, project manager Alex de Jong, and project architect Kaveh Dabiri, is located on a 1.3-million-m2<\/sup>(14-million sf) plot. The project explores the potential of modularity, prefabrication, and automation in relation to the rapid changes in medical science.<\/p>\n

The centerpiece of the district is a two-story structure that brings together a tertiary teaching hospital, a women\u2019s and children\u2019s hospital and an ambulatory diagnostics center, with a total capacity of 1400 beds.<\/p>\n

Clinical facilities occupy the first floor; bed wards are located on the ground floor, reducing the dependency on elevators and allowing patients to enjoy the complex\u2019s generous gardens\u2014healing spaces with a long history in Islamic medical architecture.<\/p>\n

Cross-shaped modular units, prefabricated onsite, can be reconfigured and expanded with minimal disruption to ongoing processes, significantly lowering the cost of future adaptations. By using 3D-printing, it permitted endless variations in the design of the fa\u00e7ades, reintroducing ornament in an architectural typology usually characterized by austerity.<\/p>\n

A high-tech farm supplies food and medical plants for the local production of medicine. All supporting facilities are connected to the hospitals by an automated underground circulation system. A dedicated logistics center and solar farm enable the district to function autonomously.<\/p>\n

Buildable at low cost, with minimum reliance on global supply chains, the Al Daayan Health District aims to establish itself as a prototype which can be adopted globally\u2014an alternative to prevailing hospital models developed in the West.<\/p>\n

Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) is the main provider of secondary and tertiary healthcare in Qatar, and one of the leading hospital providers in the Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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