02 MEDICAL CENTER

Ukraine

TYPE: Invited competition
PROGRAM:
Medical Center
– Hospital: 4,000 m2
– Rehabilitation Center: 4,000 m2
– Research Center: 4,000 m2
– Hotel and Spa: 6,000 m2

CLIENT: 
SITE: 
BUILT: 18.000 m2
STATUS: Design 
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New technologies, medical advances and changing demographics are driving massive change in models of care. DNA helps to create exemplary healthcare facilities worldwide. From project to project, DNA transfers best practices to inform therapeutic environments worldwide.

The O2 Medical Center is a building complex where the design is aptly inspired by the human body. The concept is founded upon the interrelation between cells, which is then translated architecturally in the way in which the programmatic elements of the building are organized: dispersed position of the buildings that are connected with green spaces. This complex includes a hospital, a hotel and spa, as well as a rehabilitation and a research center.

DNA brings expertise in organisational behaviour to healthcare workplaces, generating positive changes and improved performances.

MILLENIUM COMPLEX

Miami, Florida

TYPE: Parallel Assigment
PROGRAM:
Residential (446 apartments) & Commercial (280 rooms) Complex

CLIENT: 
SITE: 19.571 m2
BUILT: 75.691 m2
STATUS: Design 
PROJECT: 2016
CONSTRUCTION:
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A stylish set of design, modern image, and services offered to the highest degree of efficiency and contemporary sophistication. The visual impact can strengthen the impression of a global brand while offering breathtaking views of the city and the front of the sea.

The idea of dynamic shapes and geometry remains fluid to contrast with other buildings and immediate surroundings. The complex is conceived as a coherent and organized whole, around an interior landscaped garden that offers visitors and residents a nice social space. It adapts to the topography and the creation of different levels harmoniously connected with water and vegetation.

ALMATY SPORTS OLIMPIC MUSEUM

Kazajistan

TYPE: Invited competition
PROGRAM:
Museum, Congress Centre, R + D University, Restaurant, Parking.

CLIENT: 
SITE: 1 Ha
BUILT: 15.204
STATUS: Design 
PROJECT: 2014
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DNA’s collaborative and holistic design approach supported and helped to crystallise the architect Aryanour Djalali´s vision during the early stages of design.

This impressive structure is designed to exceed the highest possible classification from olimpic requirements. This elite rating would allow the new building to host a future Olimpic Sports Museum.

To ensure this level of quality in the design, our design specialists worked closely with specialized departments throughout the design stage.

The museum’s defining feature is a distinctive asymmetric roof. As a result, the gallery’s lighting experiences a dynamic relationship with its external environment as the sun moves across the sky and the cloud changes. The results of this work can be also seen in the facade openings, which exploit the natural daylight experienced on each level of the museum, as well as in the fluorescent lighting system that provides lighting ambient after dark.

UNIVERSITY COMPLEX TIZI-OUZOU

Tizi-Ouzou, Algeria

TYPE: Invited competition
PROGRAM:
FIRST PRIZE
University complex
-10,000 university places
-Building 1 and 2: 21,648 m2
-Building 3 and 4: 14,963 m2
-Auditorium: 4,093 m2

CLIENT: 
SITE: 10 Ha
BUILT: 72.000 m2
STATUS: Design 
PROJECT: 2014
CONSTRUCTION:
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Education challenges are always evolving. In many parts of the world, access to higher education is still hampered by poor facilities. With this project DNA creates facilities for 10.000 university students in Algeria.

In education, it is essential that facilities are cost-effective to build, run and maintain. It is also important that buildings are engaging, pleasant environments, equipped with quality systems that help institutions attract and retain students and staff. DNA reinvents the university campus and emphasizes an integrated approach for studying and leisure.

The UNIVERSITY COMPLEX TIZI-OUZOU is compound of buildings, and an auditorium interacting with the topography of the site. It also promotes campus activities and a pedestrian circulation while unifying each building with leisure, interior and exterior spaces.

Several soft lines connect the rigid square buildings. As a result this matrix provides a flexible structure between study and leisure spaces, enabling an Oasis Plaza with water sources, local vegetation, etc.

Finally the complex combines opposite concepts: ” rigid + soft “, and simulates the spirit of the project between study and leisure.

HOSPITAL DOUERA

Douera, Algeria

TYPE: Invited Competition
PROGRAM:
– Hospital
External rooms, 240 beds.

CLIENT: 
SITE: 130.000 m2
BUILT: 21.115 m2
STATUS: In progress
PROJECT: 2013
CONSTRUCTION:
BUDGET:

Hospital functional structures have evolved over history:

From the ‘pavilion’ hospital in the 19th century to the ‘tower’ hospital in the 20th century, where a new type of hospital arose described as: “networking”. For that reason in this hospital DNA works with traffic and communications to intensify the interactions and functional flexibility regarding the respective changes over time.

Hospital Douera has a network structure that organizes various assistance services. Above this there are support units creating a less dense structure. The system is designed to be “open” allowing the growth of different services, and providing the perfect pass between them. In this way, this project envisages possible scenarios for conversion and expansion that are constant in programs of this nature.

The landscape area seeks to offer a place of rest with nature and calm. A clear dividing triangular bed is developed, each floor with a different texture using floral vegetation materials, street furniture and lighting. Therefore, it will be a succession of moods that integrate perfectly with the vineyards of the environment.

The building is designed to propose illuminated and spacious work areas, ensuring the functional relationships of proximity / accessibility that are the most suitable chain production / utilization of healthcare. Circulations are spacious and bright, localized to reduce journeys between different units. At the hospital, the rooms are oriented to east having private bathrooms.

AL JAHRA HOSPITAL

Al Jahra, Kuwait

TYPE: Commission
PROGRAM:
– Hospital Building (1.171 beds),

– Dental Clinic, Staff Car Parking, Public Car Parking, Central Utility Plant, Regional Healthcare Administration Building, Sub Station

CLIENT: 
SITE: 215.000 m2
BUILT: 435.000 m2
STATUS: Under construction
PROJECT: 2013
CONSTRUCTION:
BUDGET:

DNA is participating in the project “Al Jahra Hospital” in Kuwait (in collaboration with an Engineering Consortium ).

The project has 500.000 square meters, with 1.171 beds hospital including a full range of services that will function as a trauma center for the Jahra district. DNA is in charge of developing the integral desing which include the interior, facade and landscape design.

In order to develop new designs and spaces, we use all kinds of tools to create and integrate a multidisciplinary process, the BIM manager tools, the 3d, and video representations.

The new hospital is organized around a central five-story atrium space with major diagnostic and treatment programs as well as outpatient programs located west of the atrium. Inpatient bed wings are 14 stories tall and occupy the east side of the atrium. Internal service corridors and bridges provide for horizontal inpatient transfer and service functions. Vertical transportation is provided through a range of 10 elevator cores serving for different use.

Visitors and staff arrive at a central site entrance and circulate to one of two garages. All pedestrian traffic enters the hospital directly via the central atrium for ease of wayfinding. Visitors can access their destinations via a system of escalators, atrium walkways and bridges on floors ground through three as well as the elevators located in each department.

Major departments include: accident and emergency with helipad on the roof and separate adult and pediatric treatment areas, over 20 outpatient clinics, outpatient procedures including endoscopy, pulmonary and cardiology, radiology and nuclear medicine, same day medical observation unit, a modern surgical suite with 20 ORs including four hybrid rooms and a women’s center.

BRITISH SCHOOL

Accra, Ghana

TYPE: Invited Competition
PROGRAM:
– British School
– Kindergarten: 3,018 m2
– Primary School: 4,349 m2
– Secondary School: 5,956 m2
– Grammar School: 2,512 m2

CLIENT:
SITE: 83.776 m2
BUILT: 15.835 m2
STATUS: Design
PROJECT: 2013
CONSTRUCTION:
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DNA reaches Ghana to build a British school where children can complete their education.

The formal concept of the school is a continuous ribbon that weaves in ascending order representing the advancement of a child’s education. The circulation space of the building is represented by a continuous ramp where a single corridor links all areas, and is constantly increasing in height.

Furthermore the building’s rings enclose interior spaces with an introverted character that provides social spaces, and places of pauses while active sports are situated outside of the rings.

The façade consists of glass and blind-boards following the chronology colors of a rainbow. As a result the façade creates a fun and friendly image, inviting students to experience space and knowledge.

The juxtaposition of the continuous façade creates an “all the same” in the outward appearance. The internal functions differ only by their outside façade color. Finally the alternating is full and empty, transparent and blind, giving a sense of rhythmic permeability between the interior and exterior.

ANTICANCER CENTER

Oran, Algeria

TYPE: Invited Competition
PROGRAM:
– Anticancer Center

CLIENT:
SITE: 4.489 m2
BUILT: 17.500 m2
STATUS: In progress
PROJECT: 2014
CONSTRUCTION:
BUDGET:

The proposal of this project intends to create a center for technological vanguard, supported by a flexible and functional organization in accordance with the requirements over time. It offers comfort and safety for users and workers, as well as conditions which are economically viable and preservable.

This functional concern has a strong impact on the center’s design, as it is materialized in an architectural set having no trivial features. Accordingly, the building consists of two separate blocks which are visually and functionally independent.

The site area amounts to 0.74 Ha, the main topography will be soft and comfortable for general circulation and for the implementation of the building. Based on the proposal, we will add a place of relaxation and safety rest areas for patients and staff.

Furthermore, the volumetric proposal is designed as two differentiated volumes, lower volume for the services (-1 floor to +2), and higher volume for hospitalization and facilities (floors +3 to +5). The whole construction involving the structural systems and the facade will offer an avant-garde architecture having the latest technological systems that will enable future expansions and modifications.

The roofs and courtyards are used for proportioning natural light to the building, as they treat the landscape perspective to incorporate a pleasant sense of closeness with nature. Finally, we are willing to minimize the negative impact of the traditional hospital image on users and reinforce the mindset of a pleasing atmosphere.

EL NUEVO SADAR

Pamplona, Spain

TYPE: Invited competition
PROGRAM:
– Sports stadium- 23.516 seats

CLIENT: Club atlético Osasuna
STATUS: Design
PROJECT: 2019
BUDGET: 16 millions euros

Iconic Façade

The red and blue colors are the corporate indicators of the team and we introduced them to develop a unique, modern and dynamic façade that represents the whole nature of the team and its uniqueness implementing the idea of traditional closed stadium form. By this way the guest gets a sensation of protection and full involvement and lives an experience of passion and emotion in a futuristic and elegant space.

100% Protection

The seats of the stadium are designed in a way to be fully protected from the wind, rain, snow and sunlight. The goal was to offer the maximum comfort to the guests and correspond to the climatological needs. Even if the exterior temperature drops to 13 ℃ -15 ℃, the interior will be 18 ℃-20 ℃ and the football lovers can easily enjoy the game.

Internal reformation
Continuous Seat Gradation

We decided to develop a continuous seat gradation as it allows to achieve a sense of union, liveliness, and fusion, thus we avoided isolation and dissociation.

Visibility

This type of seats allows maximum visibility, thus opening the biggest possible view to the observers.

Sound

The inclination of the seat gradation will spread the sound throughout the stadium and reach the ground in full power.

More accesses and exits

18 principal accesses
33 exits
4 accesses dedicated to the reduced mobility users
2 accesses dedicated to the vehicles

The users will be able to use the direct exists from all the floors. The implementation of more accesses and exits leads to the improvement of internal traffic.

Interactive façade

Exterior and Interior illumination will offer the maximum necessary light for better visibility, Multy-led projectors Meanwell 1000 will be used. The main façade is customizable and can be changed according to the needs of the game.

The stadium “EL NUEVO SADAR” is an icon of passion, emotion, union, and honor.

OASIS 365

Guayaquil, Ecuador

TYPE: Commission
PROGRAM:
– Commercial Center:
– Offices,
– Cinema,
– Chill out spaces,
– Central Plaza,
– Parking

CLIENT: 
SITE: 33.190 m2
BUILT: 54.447 m2
STATUS: In progress
PROJECT: 2020
CONSTRUCTION:
BUDGET:

DNA unveils a new commercial center for the city of Guayaquil in Ecuador. This new iconic project OASIS 365 offers various commercial offices, cinema, chill out spaces, central plaza, and parking, becoming a landmark of the city merging with the nature and offering a new experience for the shopping and leisure.

OASIS 365 bases its design on the shapes of nature, obtaining a dynamic and quiet formality. The curved gestures, accompanied by an image of rotation through a nucleus, represents the nature’s growth process.

The project is formed by different volumes such as cells connected between each other creating different itineraries and bringing people to the terrace where will be focused all the leisure when all the shopping spaces will be in each of the cells. The center of the building is composed by a green plaza where ascends a new Oasis with microclimate due to the heating temperatures in Guayaquil.