New Video by The Men

WB, TT, VD

An extension of our previous exploration into podular configurations.

VITAL MOVEMENTS (THE SEQUEL)

 

 

Two more investigations into MOVEMENT

 

The first diagram is a Spiral Approach. In the top diagram I am proposing that once a patient is in the recovery stage of their surgery, that their physical room will move to the outside of the facility and slowly begin to spiral down the building until reaching the first floor of full recovery. There is a "central core building" that is stationary where all the appropriate functions are divided amonst floor:

1st Floor: Entrance/ Lobby

2nd Floor: Consultation

3rd Floor: Pre-Op

4th Floor:Surgery/Operation

5th Floor: Post-Op

 

The second diagram, is experimenting with the rooms sliding horizontal and vertical in a puzzle/pattern like design. Same idea applies, as a patient gets better their room will move horizontal (right or left), and per doctor's evaluation, their room will slide down to the next floor and the same process occurs every floor until reaching the first floor of recovery. What sets this idea apart from the others, is the rooms would have the capability to protude off the building to allow other rooms to move past them (in the instance a patient is healing faster than another). 

The Men During Production

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"Breathing" public - private curtain wall

Using a fragmented curtain wall with elastic stretchy rubber joints that allow for movement, i am changing the typical curtain wall into a living breathing interactive structure. With the structure located on the inside of the curtain wall, the privacy level controlled by the guest is changed from public to semi-private, to private, the curtain wall slowly changes from a transparent linear wall to a convex translucent waved of always changing glass. 

By: Brittany Wright

VITAL MOVEMENTS

 

 

 

Illustrating possible schemes of movement for the medical recovery rooms. More schemes to follow soon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

Controlled public / Local Access

Initial Sketch idea to be able to visually control the interaction between locals and those vacationing at the resort. When the average building privacy is set to primarily private, the main access to the site becomes smaller by an extrusion of cubes. The resort is still accessible. This Pathway is more of a signal stating that majority of surgeries have taken place recently, to prevent uncomfortable interactions between any patients, guests, or locals.

patient body controlled Privacy

A simple idea sketch of how all the electrically frosted glass walls are not only controlled manually by the guests, but their body temperature will trigger the glass to be translucent or transparent. This Idea will help naturally control the patients body temp, by increasing or decreasing their body temp by natural light or shading the room. 

-B. Wright

A place for reflection and remembrance

TT, VD, WB

A celebration of the past Amerindian cultures...

Coming Soon to a Theater Near You

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This video showcases the limitless potential of our evolutionary podular design, demonstrating architecture's ability to adapt to the ever-changing fields of medicine and medical tourism.

CONCEPTUAL PROGRAM SKETCH MODEL

 

 

 "Stitched" Conceptual Program Model

Demonstrative of the inner workings of the brain. More so, demonstrative of how the brain controls movement of the body by sending triggers “messages” to create an action to occur.

A place for reflection and remembrance

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Inspired by contemporary Jewish temples as well as by colors found in Aruba, this version of "a place of reflection and remembrance" owes its origins to the podular aesthetic found in the corresponding structures of the resort

A Moving Experience

 

This is a quick conceptual model of what I am proposing for our medical center. I would like for the "Recovery Rooms" to move independently as the patients recover. For example, after a surgical procedure, you would be in a room on the fourth floor, and as you begin to heal/recover your entire room would physically move from one floor to the next until you are on the first floor of full recovery.

Cultural Graft #5

Hammock Analysis

 

This experiment shows how different structural, programmatic, and environmental factors can affect the design of space.  Stresses are applied to various points on the mesh, which represents the evolution of the spaces over time.

A place for reflection and remembrance

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This option for the chapel/ place of reflection and remembrance attempts to ease tensions and/ or sorrow by placing visitors in a unique environment and perspective-the safe immersion into the ocean. Visitors have the opportunity to witness, at a different scale, the beauty of the aquatic world that is ever present in Aruba. Through this process, a heightened level of appreciation and understanding may hopefully contribute to individual purification or consecration.

A place for reflection and remembrance

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An exploration to address and accommodate the plethora of cultures and religious backgrounds of the many visitors to the medical "podular" village is underway. Presenting a sensitive architectural language that can facilitate and encourage a wide interest in its use is the mission for the design of the chapel/ place of reflection and remembrance.

Possible P.O.D. Configuration

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This image illustrates an open configuration of the Patient Operated Domicle. With the potential to be configured in almost any way a patient would want is what we are striving for in our design. Ultimate control of an individuals environment can help to put that person at ease especially when there are things on their mind that they cannot control. Please stay tuned to see the other features our team has come up with to give ultimate control to patients/tourists.

Transparency levels ( controlled privacy)

The Top portion of this graphic is showing a hallway with rooms on each side. The colors represent the different levels of privacy that the guests have full control over. Together the walls provide a certain level of transparency through the building. This graphic represents the the different variations that the walls can be in. 

-Brittany Wright

A place for reflection and remembrance

Although it may not be the most pleasant topic to discuss, especially for a medical tourism destination, prolonged illness and/ or death as a result of a medical procedure is a realistic possibility.  To accommodate the sensitivities and formalities pertaining to such, as well as to provide unsettled guests an opportunity to find peace and tranquility before or after a procedure, the introduction of an isolated place for reflection and remembrance (chapel) will be situated (1/2 mile) off-shore from the site. This architectural feature will be safely maintained for its visitors.

My initial thoughts on the variations of privacy that can be obtained through the patient controlled electrically frosted glass.  A better graphic analyzing this idea will follow.

-Brittany Wright

Towards A Podular Architecture

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Unpredictable and rapidly changing variables in medical technology, patient requirements, tourism levels, and resort experience are the antithesis of a fixed, stationary architecture.  This necessitates an evolutionary, podular approach.  The industrial functionality of coastal gantry cranes and shipping containers are appropriated to medical tourism design.

Interactive Controlled Privacy

-Brittany Wright

Colors of Aruba

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Religion, Death and Afterlife

POD: Patient/Patron Operated Domicile....It's Podular

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Cultural Graft #4

Cultural Graft #3 - The Vertical Village