AIA National Healthcare Design Award Winner: Shenzhen Third People's Hospital

November 5, 2008 
Web Seminar

1–2 p.m. ET

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This Web seminar is part of a four part series presented by the Vendome Group in conjunction with the AIA Academy of Architecture for Health, that will explore winners of the 2008 AIA National Healthcare Design Awards.


Shenzhen Third People's Hospital
Demand for better health care facilities in China has increased, resulting in a wave of new hospital construction. Chinese hospitals have typically been designed as narrow buildings with low floor-to-floor heights that relied on natural ventilation. These building forms accommodated important aspects of traditional Chinese design but they were cold and damp in winter, hot and humid in summer. Contemporary Western designs, with large floor plates and high floor-to-floor heights, are more comfortable and efficient but are less culturally appropriate in China. The design team created a hospital that blended traditional Chinese forms with Western technology. The design solution is a campus with a linear spine and a series of narrow buildings that are curved to capture sunlight and channel the winds. Although the buildings will have internal mechanical systems consistent with those found in U.S. hospitals to halt the spread of infection, the campus organization locates infectious patients downwind and offers them the natural healing power of sunlight and serene garden views. The building is situated so it has prevailing southeasterly winds; therefore, the noninfectious zone is at the south end of the campus with the semi-infectious zone in the center and the infectious zone at the north.

Speakers

David A. Rhodes, FAIA, Vice President and Principal, TRO Jung|Brannen

David A. Rhodes, FAIA, vice president/principal of TRO Jung|Brannen, has 41 years of experience leading the facility planning, programming, and design of health care projects for major health care systems, specialty hospitals, academic medical centers, and teaching hospitals and in the United States and abroad. Since 1993 he has been responsible for leading TRO Jung|Brannen’s efforts in Asia, completing the design of over fifteen International hospitals in Shenzhen, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Xiamen, Tianjin, Chongqing, Chengdu, and Shanghai, China.

Eduard Scharff Jr., AIA, Associate Principal, TRO Jung|Brannen

Eduard Scharff Jr., AIA, associate principal of TRO Jung|Brannen, has over 35 years of experience in the planning and design of high-tech medical facilities in the United States and abroad. He has been instrumental in the development of TRO Jung|Brannen’s international projects, and is currently working on the design of numerous medical facility projects in the Asian market, specifically in Shenzhen, Nanjing, Tianjin and Chengdu, China. Eduard has also worked on large-scale projects in the Middle East.

Anne Schopf, FAIA, Awards Panel Judge

Anne Schopf, FAIA, is partner and director of design at Mahlum Architects. She has provided design leadership for the firm’s diverse practice in health care, education, housing, and commercial markets. Under Anne’s direction, the firm’s work has been recognized with two consecutive Top Ten Green Project awards by the AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE) and 45 AIA and IIDA design awards at the local, regional and national levels. Significant projects include Providence Newberg Medical Center in Oregon, the first LEED Gold hospital in the nation, and Norton Sound Regional Hospital in Nome, Alaska.