Project Cost : HK$1,700M
Client : Hospital Authority managed by ArchSD
Award : 2013 ArchSD Annual Award - Certificate of Merit
Commissioned in September 2013, the North Lantau Hospital (NLTH) is the first hospital in Lantau Island, Hong Kong. NLTH is designed to deliver public hospital services to meet the growing demand of the population in the local community, offering a variety of services, including: Accident & Emergency services, In-patient General Acute Care Services with 160 in-patient beds and Specialties Services such as Diagnostic Radiology, Specialist Outpatient Clinic and community outreach.
Design of the North Lantau Hospital has emphasized on: patient focus design, advancement in infection control planning, sustainability, sympathetic landscape design and, last but not the least, ensuring universal accessibility to all public areas, as well for the staff working therein. Exhibited throughout the new hospital is the firm belief that a pleasant encounter in a hospital setting is as important as it is in any other public buildings: patient comfort, convenience and privacy have to be enhanced through careful manipulation of building forms and thoughtful planning of the internal and external facilities of the hospital. One of the main planning objectives is to ensure smooth traffic flow for patients, public and staff, and with proper segregation between clean and dirty flow, to ensure efficiency and to enhance infection control.
Creation of a hospital as a place of healing, apart from one for treatment was conceived to be equally important. Sympathy with the surrounding topography and built environment has been achieved by making use of the picturesque hilly setting as backdrop for the hospital building, which is also substantially set back from the main road on the front, so that a landscaped "breathing / buffer" zone has been created between the hospital and the adjacent housing development across the road, providing privacy for the patients and the staff. Instead of the traditional bulky rectangular hospital building form, the NLTH is purposely designed in a stretched embracing arm form which offers maximum frontage to receive natural lighting, while suggesting a welcoming image of the hospital. Podium garden at Level 2 forms a vital conducive healing environment for the Hospital. This garden serves as the outdoor counterpart of the Day Health Care Services located on the same floor. The garden is sub-zoned in different themes, offering ion activities such as tactile walls, herbal walk and outdoor gardening, all aiming to bring sensual stimulation to the patients. a variety of rehabillitation activvities such as tactile wall, herbal walk and outdoor gardening, all aiming to bring sensual stimulation to the patiens.
Project Cost : HK$1,700M
Client : Hospital Authority managed by ArchSD
Award : 2013 ArchSD Annual Award - Certificate of Merit
Commissioned in September 2013, the North Lantau Hospital (NLTH) is the first hospital in Lantau Island, Hong Kong. NLTH is designed to deliver public hospital services to meet the growing demand of the population in the local community, offering a variety of services, including: Accident & Emergency services, In-patient General Acute Care Services with 160 in-patient beds and Specialties Services such as Diagnostic Radiology, Specialist Outpatient Clinic and community outreach.
Design of the North Lantau Hospital has emphasized on: patient focus design, advancement in infection control planning, sustainability, sympathetic landscape design and, last but not the least, ensuring universal accessibility to all public areas, as well for the staff working therein. Exhibited throughout the new hospital is the firm belief that a pleasant encounter in a hospital setting is as important as it is in any other public buildings: patient comfort, convenience and privacy have to be enhanced through careful manipulation of building forms and thoughtful planning of the internal and external facilities of the hospital. One of the main planning objectives is to ensure smooth traffic flow for patients, public and staff, and with proper segregation between clean and dirty flow, to ensure efficiency and to enhance infection control.
Creation of a hospital as a place of healing, apart from one for treatment was conceived to be equally important. Sympathy with the surrounding topography and built environment has been achieved by making use of the picturesque hilly setting as backdrop for the hospital building, which is also substantially set back from the main road on the front, so that a landscaped "breathing / buffer" zone has been created between the hospital and the adjacent housing development across the road, providing privacy for the patients and the staff. Instead of the traditional bulky rectangular hospital building form, the NLTH is purposely designed in a stretched embracing arm form which offers maximum frontage to receive natural lighting, while suggesting a welcoming image of the hospital. Podium garden at Level 2 forms a vital conducive healing environment for the Hospital. This garden serves as the outdoor counterpart of the Day Health Care Services located on the same floor. The garden is sub-zoned in different themes, offering ion activities such as tactile walls, herbal walk and outdoor gardening, all aiming to bring sensual stimulation to the patients. a variety of rehabillitation activvities such as tactile wall, herbal walk and outdoor gardening, all aiming to bring sensual stimulation to the patiens.
Project Cost : HK$1,700M
Client : Hospital Authority managed by ArchSD
Award : 2013 ArchSD Annual Award - Certificate of Merit
Commissioned in September 2013, the North Lantau Hospital (NLTH) is the first hospital in Lantau Island, Hong Kong. NLTH is designed to deliver public hospital services to meet the growing demand of the population in the local community, offering a variety of services, including: Accident & Emergency services, In-patient General Acute Care Services with 160 in-patient beds and Specialties Services such as Diagnostic Radiology, Specialist Outpatient Clinic and community outreach.
Design of the North Lantau Hospital has emphasized on: patient focus design, advancement in infection control planning, sustainability, sympathetic landscape design and, last but not the least, ensuring universal accessibility to all public areas, as well for the staff working therein. Exhibited throughout the new hospital is the firm belief that a pleasant encounter in a hospital setting is as important as it is in any other public buildings: patient comfort, convenience and privacy have to be enhanced through careful manipulation of building forms and thoughtful planning of the internal and external facilities of the hospital. One of the main planning objectives is to ensure smooth traffic flow for patients, public and staff, and with proper segregation between clean and dirty flow, to ensure efficiency and to enhance infection control.
Creation of a hospital as a place of healing, apart from one for treatment was conceived to be equally important. Sympathy with the surrounding topography and built environment has been achieved by making use of the picturesque hilly setting as backdrop for the hospital building, which is also substantially set back from the main road on the front, so that a landscaped "breathing / buffer" zone has been created between the hospital and the adjacent housing development across the road, providing privacy for the patients and the staff. Instead of the traditional bulky rectangular hospital building form, the NLTH is purposely designed in a stretched embracing arm form which offers maximum frontage to receive natural lighting, while suggesting a welcoming image of the hospital. Podium garden at Level 2 forms a vital conducive healing environment for the Hospital. This garden serves as the outdoor counterpart of the Day Health Care Services located on the same floor. The garden is sub-zoned in different themes, offering ion activities such as tactile walls, herbal walk and outdoor gardening, all aiming to bring sensual stimulation to the patients. a variety of rehabillitation activvities such as tactile wall, herbal walk and outdoor gardening, all aiming to bring sensual stimulation to the patiens.