Feasibility Studies
Liver diseases center
Introduction
The aim of this project
is to extend and add more facilities, zones and requirements to the
existing Digestive and Liver diseases centre in Baghdad without
hindering or affecting the daily usage of the existing facilities and
buildings, i.e., no stoppage of functioning. In these few pages
description of the proposed design of the extension for this centre is
furnished. The extension, however, is important to achieve an adequate
centre that provides for the care of digestive system and liver
diseases. The design was based on site visits and analysis of existing
conditions, and the needed functions and requirements by the client. The
architectural solution and structural concepts are outlined briefly. The
medical gases proposal is also demonstrated for its impact on the
design.
Site visits, existing conditions and design philosophy:
Site had been visited many times and tours done too. The client kindly
had forwarded the drawings of the existing buildings, layout and the
functional requirements of the needed extension too. From the drawings
and visits, an empty plot of (100x18)m is available for the extension as
Fig (1) shows. The conditions of the existing buildings from functional
and structural point of view are fair. But because the structural
conditions of the existing buildings, modern buildings construction is
difficult to be added on the top of them. Any alteration on the envelope
of the existing buildings is difficult since they are built on thick
bearing walls system (48 cm).
However, while constructing the existing buildings will not be closed or
stopped of functioning, the proposed design of the extension of the
Digestive system and liver diseases will be largely designed on the
empty new plot area mentioned previously. A simple overlap with the
existing buildings will be done, as one storey of construction is added
on the top of the new annex of the outpatients Department. The drawings
of the proposed design will show these instances.
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