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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. Centro de Investigaciones y Tratamiento Ocular “C.I.T.O Surgery Center” in Buenos Aires, Argentina by Brunzini ArquitecturaNovember 29th, 2018 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Brunzini Arquitectura The CITO Surgery center is a specialized ophthalmology facility, specialized in patient care and ophthalmologic surgery, located in a central area of the city of Buenos Aires. It is designed under sustainability parameters to reduce the consumption of energy, the use of drinking water and improve internal environmental quality.  The access on the street Marcelo T de Alvear 2454,Image Courtesy © Andrés Negroni
 The access on the street Marcelo T de Alvear, Image Courtesy © Andrés Negroni The project has been designed over 9 levels. Among which we can find cultural and leisure activities in the ground floor, Consultation Rooms in the 2nd and 3rd floor, a special area for patient’s recovery in the 4th floor and three floors for Surgery practice, leaving the upper levels for staff-use only. The building incorporates sustainable design strategies into its proposal; both in terms of caring for the environment, saving energy and reducing the carbon footprint, as well as taking care of indoor air quality to guarantee the interior comfort and health of the users, as well as the staff that complies its functions permanently.  The access on the street Marcelo T de Alvear, Image Courtesy © Andrés Negroni  Image Courtesy © the facade windows, Image Courtesy © Andrés Negroni The site location being so highly dense provides many sustainable benefits to the occupants of the building. Having close access to public transport, supermarkets, restaurants and other resources, can results in reduction of car usage for employees and patients. The project site was selected and acquired based on the sustainable premise of being located in an area of the city with high connectivity, which allowed to opt -by project decision- to dispense with installing vehicular parking within the premises, in order to promote the use of public transport by users. In addition, the building doesn’t have a connection to the gas network, in order to reduce the consumption of fossil energy, and recovers 100% of the rainwater as well as the condensation derived from the indoor climate conditioning terminal units, to be used in irrigation and in the discharge of toilets as gray water; It also has the use of solar collectors for water heating as an alternative source of renewable energy in-situ.  Consulting room, Image Courtesy © Andrés Negroni  Consulting room, Image Courtesy © Andrés Negroni With regard to the reduction of drinking water consumption, not only is this achieved through the aforementioned recovery of rainwater, but also through the provision of double-flush toilets and high-performance taps to meet the Pre-requisite of LEED regulations to which it is aspired, and even exceed the baseline of the same, with percentages of savings above the minimum required.  Consulting room, Image Courtesy © Andrés Negroni  One of the surgery rooms,Image Courtesy © Andrés Negroni The gestural morphology of the façade, at the same time iconic and referential, is materialized in armed concrete, and responds to the different needs of natural lighting of the interiors, as well as to favor the visuals to the exterior, from the most public at the levels inferior, to the most technical in the higher levels, where the patient recovery areas are located, and the surgical ones; that require a lower incidence of natural light.  The access hall to the consulting rooms, Image Courtesy © Andrés Negroni  The main consulting room, Image Courtesy © Andrés Negroni The project is already registered with the GBCI (Green Building Certification Institute) for its LEED Certification, under the NCv3 2009 format, and with a desire to reach the “Gold” level; This means a great effort, both for the client and for the different working groups, from designers, engineering consultants and contractors to achieve the certification objective.  The skylight stairs and access hall to the consulting rooms, Image Courtesy © Andrés Negroni  One of the skylights on the ceiling, Image Courtesy © Andrés Negroni  The stairs from the ground floor, Image Courtesy © Andrés Negroni
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