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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Mevlana Unıversity Hospital in Konya, Turkey by Geyran Mimarlık Atölyisi Ltd. Sti.July 26th, 2017 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Geyran Mimarlık Atölyisi Ltd. Sti. Mevlana University Training and Research Hospital is designed to be constructed in Selçuklu District of Konya. The planned overall indoors area of the university hospital is 41.000 m². The building is located to the east of Yeni Istanbul avenue, which is one of the main arteries of Konya having a new axis extending in northeast and southwest direction, and the building settlement is performed after moving 25 m inwards from the road as per the zoning status of the land with 124 m/tul facade to the road. The mass composition of the private hospital essentially comprises of 1 podium building and curved multistory block.  Image Courtesy © Geyran Mimarlık Atölyisi Ltd. Sti.
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 Image Courtesy © Geyran Mimarlık Atölyisi Ltd. Sti.  Image Courtesy © Geyran Mimarlık Atölyisi Ltd. Sti. The central section of the northeastern and southwestern facade line of the podium building of the health care facility is retracted 20 m inwards in a concave manner to produce an inviting form at the entrance. The podium building contours having folds resembling the skirts of the whirling dervishes is placed by being gradated backwards from the facade line towards southeastern direction to produce pyramid-like affect along 3 floors. The ground floor, 1st floor, 2nd floor and the 3rd floor of the hospital contained excessively crowded space groups due to the intensity of the architectural program requirements, revealing monolithic floor plans of 60 m x 40 m dimensions formed by indoors areas varying in the range of approximately 3000 – 4000 m².  Image Courtesy © Geyran Mimarlık Atölyisi Ltd. Sti.  Image Courtesy © Geyran Mimarlık Atölyisi Ltd. Sti. As the central sections of the private hospital became distanced from the facades, the natural sunlight is conveyed to the spaces located in the middle of the building by constructing 2 inner courtyards of 8m x 10m dimensions. The architectural design is shaped to minimize the in-hospital traffic during the visit of outpatients. Therefore, the opportunities offered by the land are forced to the most possible extent at 2nd basement floor, 1st basement floor, ground floor, 1st floor and 2nd floor levels in order to create large spaces enabling vertical circulation of the outpatients at the podium building. The vertical circulation shaft of the split tower building is designed to have minimum impact from the outpatient and outpatient relative traffic.  Image Courtesy © Geyran Mimarlık Atölyisi Ltd. Sti.  Image Courtesy © Geyran Mimarlık Atölyisi Ltd. Sti. The exterior contours of the basement floors are expanded up to the land building berthing limit, thus achieving the broadest plan contours that the land can offer. Spaces that do not require natural light (surgery room, clinical laboratory, radiology laboratory, nuclear oncology, central sterilization, etc.) are designed at the basement floors of the private hospital. The electrical and mechanical infrastructures, which are considered to be the most significant elements of the health care facilities, and the auxiliary units required by such spaces and the laundry, men’s changing room, women’s changing room, storage and workshops, morgue, waste management, etc., considered to be important servicing units of the hospital, are again positioned at the 2nd basement floor and 3rd basement floor. The parking lots, another space group that does not require natural light, are also positioned at the 2nd and 3rd basement floors. The inpatient services are generally positioned at the tower building. Some of the policlinics with no available space at the lower levels of the podium building and the social units such as staff residence, day nursery, etc. thought to be positioned at tranquil places and some of the technical support units are also allocated in the tower building.  Image Courtesy © Geyran Mimarlık Atölyisi Ltd. Sti.  Image Courtesy © Geyran Mimarlık Atölyisi Ltd. Sti. The staircase and elevator cores that provide vertical circulation at the hospital are approached in three main groups; northern, eastern and southwestern cores. The northern core is intended to ensure vertical circulation of the podium building comprising of total six floors as 3 basement floors, ground floor and 2 floors in a manner to connect the emergency unit, radiology, intensive care units and surgery rooms. Similarly, the eastern core is also designed to serve the podium building and interconnect the mess hall, conference hall and the policlinics. The southwestern core is the largest core and is intended to serve mainly to the inpatient services located at the tower building. All cores are connected to the indoors parking lot and fulfill the requirements of the fire regulation. The fire safety of the building is enhanced by designing additional fire escape stairs at eastern and western ends of the tower building.  Image Courtesy © Geyran Mimarlık Atölyisi Ltd. Sti.  Image Courtesy © Geyran Mimarlık Atölyisi Ltd. Sti. The overall inpatient bed availability of the university hospital is 405. Mevlana University Training and Research Hospital comprises of Radiology, clinical laboratory, pathology laboratory, angiography, nuclear medicine center, blood bank, general surgery and KVC surgery rooms, internal disease intensive care, surgery intensive care, coroner intensive care, KVC intensive care, neonatal intensive care, emergency unit, dialysis, policlinics (cardiology policlinics, KVC policlinics, orthopedic and traumatology policlinics, internal diseases policlinics (nephrology policlinic, endocrinal policlinic, rheumatology policlinic, thoracic diseases policlinic, infectious diseases policlinic, diet policlinic), dentistry policlinics (pedodontics policlinic, endodontics policlinic, orthodontics policlinic), otorhinolaryngology policlinics, VIP policlinics, plastic – aesthetic policlinics (plastic surgery policlinics, dermatology policlinics, laser epilation, dietician),oncology policlinics(hematology policlinic, chemotherapy center), surgical policlinics, anesthesia policlinic, urology policlinic, gastroenterology policlinic, pediatric policlinics (pediatric infection policlinic, pediatric allergy policlinic, pediatric neurology policlinic, pediatric cardiology policlinic, pediatric oncology policlinic, pediatric hematology policlinic, pediatric surgery, neonatal policlinic) nosology policlinic, neurosurgery policlinic, psychology policlinic, ophthalmic policlinic, gynecology policlinic, endoscopy, IVF (in vitro fertilization) center, delivery room, 14 inpatient services with 14 bed availability, mess hall, cafeteria, laundry, administrative units, central sterilization unit, call center, physical therapy and rehabilitation, day nursery, staff residences, conference hall, seminar halls and indoors parking lot sections.  Image Courtesy © Geyran Mimarlık Atölyisi Ltd. Sti.  Image Courtesy © Geyran Mimarlık Atölyisi Ltd. Sti. The building terminates at + 65 altitude and the overall height of the building reaches up to 80 m. In this manner, the building falls under the scope of relevant regulation concerning high – rise buildings. In the course of layout, the design is made talking into consideration the environmental impact, impact on the silhouette of the city, the geological structure of the land, the aerial traffic at the location of the building, general transportation and fire department access at that particular region of the city, infrastructure connections and capacities, sunlight angles and prevalent wind direction. As the building is classified as high – rise building, extra measurements are required besides prerequisite fire measures. The fire measures are consummated by constructing emergency elevator, horizontal evacuation zones and fire compartments in the building. The eastern wing of the multistory block located far from the road, extending in east – west direction and having an arch-like shape is designed to have 4 additional floors than the western wing closer to the road in order to create a broad open space and volume at the road side of the building by gradation from the road altitude towards the podium building, from the podium building towards east wing of the tower building, and from east wing of the tower building towards the west wing of the tower building.  Image Courtesy © Geyran Mimarlık Atölyisi Ltd. Sti. The space so generated is organized to have outdoors parking lots, pedestrian roads, emergency entrance, main entrance to the building, dialysis center entrance, emergency unit exits, and the ramp leading to the indoors parking lot. The convex facade of the high – rise building faces Yeni Istanbul Avenue, which is characterized as a main artery. It is planned to take measure by application of double facade taking into consideration the fact that this façade shall have excessive impact from the noise and traffic of the city. The concave and convex facades of the multistory building are designed to have both thermal and acoustic isolation by means of a secondary façade, allowing for an air pocket of 60 cm. By virtue of these facades, it will be ensured that the response of the building shall be under control during severe winter conditions of Konya where terrestrial climate prevails and where temperature differences up to 20 degrees are experienced between daytime and nighttime.  Image Courtesy © Geyran Mimarlık Atölyisi Ltd. Sti. The porcelain tile sidings, the curtain walling system composed of tempered and laminated glazing used at the facades, the compact laminated curtain walling elements used at the parapets and the thermal and water isolation the foregoing accommodates under their structure shall ensure adequate response of the building against the severe climate of Konya. We believe that Mevlana University Training and Research Hospital building considered having a significant impact on the silhouette of Konya shall have an eloquent contribution to the architecture of the city with its curved and soft contours. Mevlana University Training and Research Hospital project start – up date is May 2008 and the preliminary project of the private hospital is delivered in July 2009. The architectural final project, static project, electrical project and mechanical project of the private health care facility are completed in March 2010.  Image Courtesy © Geyran Mimarlık Atölyisi Ltd. Sti. All hospital projects carried out under the structure of Geyran Architecture Workshop Co. Ltd fulfill the requirements of “Regulation on Fire Protection of the Buildings”, “Regulation on Private Hospitals” and all other relevant regulations. The requirements of the relevant regulations on private hospital designs are strictly adhered to.
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