Project Background
The term “Centre for independent living”- defines the medical rehabilitation, the vocational facilities for the mobility impaired.
The medical rehab will provide rehabilitation facilities after the healing process at normal hospital
The vocational rehab will provide training facilities for new skills to prepare the people to become economically independent.
Location: Gamphedi, Duwakot, Bhaktapur, Approximately 0.8 km north from the Nepal Engineering college
Co ordinates: 27°42'53.69"N
85°24'53
Master Plan Rendering
“Ability, not disability”
Ease of movement for the person with physical disability is a pre-requisite. A ramp that can lead them from ground to roof-top can create a statement for universal accessibility, if designed with harmony with the overall building design.
Master Plan
“Psychological Demand Transforming Into Space”
The building volume needs to confine an enclose space within itself to curtain the internal area from the external world. As such the building block can act, as buffer (yet functional) to achieve the required privacy.
The space incorporate Medical rehabilitation, vocational rehabilitation, living units, community space and other supporting services. Sequencing of space is done to facilitate the circulation and use
“Psychological Demand Transforming Into Space”
The building volume needs to confine an enclose space within itself to curtain the internal area from the external world. As such the building block can act, as buffer (yet functional) to achieve the required privacy.
The space incorporate Medical rehabilitation, vocational rehabilitation, living units, community space and other supporting services. Sequencing of space is done to facilitate the circulation and use
Exterior Renderings
Public and private area is separated by aligning the building itself in such manner. Two prominent open spaces acts as a place of separation and connection. The concept of Separation but no isolation is used in the planning of living unit. The blocks are separated but the placing make it easy for visual connection.
Public and private area is separated by aligning the building itself in such manner. Two prominent open spaces acts as a place of separation and connection. The concept of Separation but no isolation is used in the planning of living unit. The blocks are separated but the placing make it easy for visual connection.
Public and private area is separated by aligning the building itself in such manner. Two prominent open spaces acts as a place of separation and connection. The concept of Separation but no isolation is used in the planning of living unit. The blocks are separated but the placing make it easy for visual connection.
Public and private area is separated by aligning the building itself in such manner. Two prominent open spaces acts as a place of separation and connection. The concept of Separation but no isolation is used in the planning of living unit. The blocks are separated but the placing make it easy for visual connection.
Public and private area is separated by aligning the building itself in such manner. Two prominent open spaces acts as a place of separation and connection. The concept of Separation but no isolation is used in the planning of living unit. The blocks are separated but the placing make it easy for visual connection.
Floor Plan
The complex forms an internal court that isolates the internal area from the outside, which is compulsory for the patients’ well being and privacy as they find themselves tortured into a changed physical condition. Therefore, the Entry block, along with the rental blocks create a buffer from the main road, so penetration of noise is curtained.
Elevation Plan
Environmental comfort has been kept in mind. The Therapeutic block and vocational rehabilitation block is placed on the north –south direction. Since they will run throughout the day, this again is an attempt to protect the internal complex from direct heat gain.
Section Plan
There are scopes for any physically challenged person to access the building from the ground to the roof top with two ramp-access ways and connected through raps. This is again an example that can put mark on the surrounding neighborhood to make aware that how a building can be designed for differently abled persons, where ramps can act as corridors; hence a symbol for “Universal Accessibility”.
The patients are taught gardening and vegetation in this centre. Scope has been created both on the ground and on roof top by ensuring roof gardening system. A good number of open-to-sky terraces has been designed which acts both as breathing space and add to the aesthetic value to the overall built volume. Natural ventilation is allowed in most functional rooms where fresh air shall be drawn-in through seal level and used warm air can flow-out through louvres above windows.
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