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

TT, VD, WB

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

TT, VD,WB

 

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

TT, WB, VD

 

 

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

WB, VD, TT

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

WB, TT, VD

Religion, Death and Afterlife

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

WB, TT, VD

Cultural Graft #4

Cultural Graft #3 - The Vertical Village

 

Programming

Concept Statement/Declaración de Concepto

With the rise of cosmetic procedures, we will reconstruct the traditional medical center to be one that nurtures the needs of these specific patients while providing a hotel that has unique and one of a kind amenities. Stitching together the cultural landscape of Aruba, while injecting a vertical village archetype, will enhance the environment by promoting a calm psyche, while catering towards the locals with respect to the natives. Focuses of our research will be implementing a cohesive cultural graft in order to fill the void, rehabilitating the psyche through augmentation of space, and consultation of the site to better dissect an archetype appropriate for a programmatic environment.

 

Con el aumento de procedimientos cosméticos, vamos a reconstruir el tradicional centro médico que hay una que alimenta las necesidades de estos pacientes concretos al mismo tiempo que ofrece un hotel que tiene singular y único en su especie comodidades. Cosiendo el paisaje cultural de Aruba, mientras inyectando un pueblo vertical arquetipo, a mejorar el medio ambiente gracias a la promoción de una calma psique, al tiempo que atiende a la gente con respecto a los nativos. Se centra en nuestra investigación pondrá en práctica un injerto cultural coherente con el fin de llenar el vacío, la rehabilitación de la psique mediante el aumento de espacio, y consulta del sitio a disecar un arquetipo mejor adecuado para un contexto de los programas.

Cultural Graft #2 - The Vertical Village

 

Cultural Graft #1

Central Nervous System Programming

Site Integration

site analysis

Site Concept Rendering

TT, WB, VD

Site Progression Diagram

TT, WB, VD

Hub and Island Concept Diagram

TT, WB, VD

Of the brain, by the brain, for the brain

Christina Buompane

 

Injecting Culture

Talah Pejooh

Programming-Scheme 01

 

 

 

Method To Our Madness?

Torrey, Vinny, Willie

Concept Statement / Concepto Declaración

Slick Willie and the Twinzzz

We will engage and celebrate the Aruban environment and culture through a rescaled campus style medical resort with a culinary anchor.  Imperative to the design is an almost constant interaction with the surrounding environment for its inherent therapeutic qualities.  Focuses of our research will be the relationship between the private and public environment for post-op recovery, challenging and exploring the definitions and relationships between medical and non-medical tourism, and developing a unique architectural expression that strays from traditional medical institutional design.

Vamos a participar y celebrar el medio ambiente y la cultura de Aruba a través de un complejo de estilo campus reajustarán médico con un ancla culinaria. Imperativo que el diseño es una interacción casi constante con el entorno circundante por sus cualidades terapéuticas inherentes. Se centra de nuestra investigación será la relación entre el ámbito privado y público para la recuperación post-operatoria, desafiante y la exploración de las definiciones y las relaciones entre el turismo médico y no médico, y el desarrollo de una expresión arquitectónica única que se aleja de diseño institucional tradicional médica.