17 New Health Care Units

The project for Primary Health Units in 17 cities of the Sultanate of Oman, identifies an easily applicable design methodology for all different contexts and allows to do so achieve very high levels of energy performance, environmental sustainability and comfort.

Two different types of units, serving a population of 5,000 – 10,000 people or more than 10,000, have the same “architectural structure” guidelines’, adaptable to each individual site, in order to have different projects, appropriately integrated according to all the specificities surrounding conditions. The building is organized into blocks which can be aggregated to define a capable structure to adapt to specific conditions of place.
The composition of the functional blocks allows different, characterizing combinations the building as an urban aggregate, a small“city of health” which hosts healthcare facilities for the community (operating blocks, clinics, laboratories, radiology…).