Mar 19, 2010
Medical housing compound | Studio Tamassociati
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Project : Medical housing compound in Sudan
Location and date: Soba, Khartoum (Sudan), 2008-09
Client: Emergency ngo
Dimension: Area: 8.663 sq. metres. Covered surface: 1668 sq. metres.
Design team:
Program coordinator: Emergency Technical Office,Pietro Parrino;
Project: Studio tamassociati Raul Pantaleo, Massimo Lepore, Simone Sfriso, con Pietro Parrino e Gino Strada;
Structural engineering: Francesco Steffinlongo;
Mechanical/services engineering: Nicola Zoppi;
Site engineer: Roberto Crestan, Alessandro Tamai, Claudio Gatti;
Builder: ISNAD Sudan.
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Looking at the amount of discarded containers laying around the building site of the Salam Centre we had this simple idea: to use them again in order to realize the required international staff housing compound.
Diagram courtesy Studio Tamassociati
Photo courtesy Studio Tamassociati
The Compound placed besides the Hospital, in the surroundings of the Nile river, is realized around a great courtyard full of wonderful mango trees. It consists of 95 20ft-containers for housing and 7 40ft-containers for the cafeteria. Every lodging is 20 sqm and is realized with one and a half containers; the lodging is composed of bedroom, bathroom and a small veranda on the court side.
Photo courtesy Studio Tamassociati
Photo courtesy Studio Tamassociati
Peculiar care has been dedicated to insulation and energy saving. The containers are insulated with a “layer system”. Inside the container 5 cm insulating panels have been placed. The outside “skin” is realized with a second insulated roof and a bamboo brise-soleil panel system. In this way the sunrays never hit the containers. This system involves a huge energy saving. Solar panels also supply hot water for the entire compound.
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