Open side-bar Menu
 ArchShowcase
Sumit Singhal
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.

A Traditional Vietnamese Medicine Center in Hòa Lạc, Vietnam by LANDMAK ARCHITECTURE, JSC

 
March 22nd, 2021 by Sumit Singhal

Article source: LANDMAK ARCHITECTURE, JSC 

Vietnamese Oriental Medicine has developed throughout the country’s history since ancient times, combining the basic theories of traditional Oriental Medicine, the experience in using tropical herbal medicine and healing from the ancient Vietnamese community. From the time of Hai Thuong Lan Ong and Zen master Tue Tinh who knew how to use herbal medicine in healing, an oriental medicine imbued with Vietnamese identity was created.

Image Courtesy © Trieu Chien

  • Architects: LANDMAK ARCHITECTURE, JSC
  • Project: A Traditional Vietnamese Medicine Center
  • Location: Hòa Lạc, Vietnam
  • Photography: Trieu Chien
  • Design Team: Ngo Thị Ngan Ha,Lai Hung Quyet, Nguyen Khac Tue, Trinh Trong Quyen, , Truong Quang Dao, Nguyen Ha Hoai Ly, Vu Thi Thuy Ngan, Trinh Minh Thang, Dang Quynh An
  • Construction Company: Milimet Viet Nam
  • Structural Engineers: Truong Tuan Chung, Do Ngoc Hai
  • Architect in Charge: Ta Tien Vinh, Truong Tuan Chung
  • Completion Date: 2020

Image Courtesy © Trieu Chien

As Western medicine developed and showed rapid effect, our Traditional Medicine gradually lost its popularity. Thousands of great remedies, millions of precious medicinal plants are no longer used in healing. However, Western medicine has been increasingly revealing many shortcomings, among which is the inability to clear the root of diseases while Oriental medicine aims to regulate the human body to help eliminate the origin of diseases. Therefore, oriental medicine is still valuable and needs to be preserved and promoted properly.

Desiring to establish an oriental medicine center imbued with Vietnamese identity, contributing to the community, using Vietnamese traditional medicine to cure the elderly who cannot afford are the motivations for us to complete this project.

Image Courtesy © Trieu Chien

Image Courtesy © Trieu Chien

The challenge is to renovate an old abandoned villa into an oriental medicine center with the full functions:

+ Organize medical examination and treatment

+ Plant and preserve medicinal plants

+ Process medicinal plants

+ Organize workshops, educate and disseminate knowledge of oriental medicine.

+ Sell and introduce oriental medicine products.

Unlike any other project we have done before, all funding from the time of construction to operation were donated by individuals and organizations. The project was completed thanks to the contribution of everyone.

Image Courtesy © Trieu Chien

Image Courtesy © Trieu Chien

In order to create a place that not only fully meets the requirements of simple comfort and medical functions but also helps patients relax, we decided to completely abandon the design of traditional hospitals which often have long narrow corridors between lines of treatment rooms. Instead, a central public space with stairs and a tea room from the first to the fourth floor helps connect the floors which have already been arranged from dynamically to statically.

1st floor – dynamic space – including: hall, reception, training room, dining room for guests which are designed to optimize the area and combined with a garden space full of medicinal plants and herbs.

2nd floor- therapy and acupuncture treatment and accommodation area for women

3rd floor- therapy and acupuncture treatment and accommodation area for men

4th floor – static space – tea room and buddha space. If the lower floors are the space for oriental medicine to help heal the body, this is the space for healing the mind – calming the soul. In the midst of the faint smell of herbs, the echoes of pagoda bells, you will be relieved and treated from the bottom of your mind.

Image Courtesy © Trieu Chien

Image Courtesy © Trieu Chien

Image Courtesy © Trieu Chien

Image Courtesy © Trieu Chien

Image Courtesy © Trieu Chien

Image Courtesy © Trieu Chien

Image Courtesy © Trieu Chien

Image Courtesy © Trieu Chien

Image Courtesy © Trieu Chien

Image Courtesy © Trieu Chien

Image Courtesy © Trieu Chien

Image Courtesy © Trieu Chien

Image Courtesy © Trieu Chien

Image Courtesy © Trieu Chien

Image Courtesy © LANDMAK ARCHITECTURE

Image Courtesy © LANDMAK ARCHITECTURE

Image Courtesy © LANDMAK ARCHITECTURE

Image Courtesy © LANDMAK ARCHITECTURE

Image Courtesy © LANDMAK ARCHITECTURE

Tags: ,

Category: Medical Center




© 2024 Internet Business Systems, Inc.
670 Aberdeen Way, Milpitas, CA 95035
+1 (408) 882-6554 — Contact Us, or visit our other sites:
TechJobsCafe - Technical Jobs and Resumes EDACafe - Electronic Design Automation GISCafe - Geographical Information Services  MCADCafe - Mechanical Design and Engineering ShareCG - Share Computer Graphic (CG) Animation, 3D Art and 3D Models
  Privacy PolicyAdvertise