The King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre is tertiary
referral hospital. As a tertiary referral hospital, it offers primary and
highly specialized inpatient and outpatient medical care and
participates in many clinical and research studies. It is consistently
recognized as one of the nation's top hospital specializing in Oncology,
Organ Transplantation, Cardiovascular Diseases, Neurosciences and
Genetic Diseases. A large portion of the patient population are referrals
from other hospitals from across Saudi Arabia as a whole and the
surrounding regions. The hospital handles around 10,000 thousand
outpatient visits each year and houses over 1,600 beds and has 28
health outreach centers. It has a staff of over 1,000 doctors with over
13,500 total employees of 67 different nationalities. KFSH&RC is
accredited by the Joint Commission International (JCI), the Magnet
Recognition Program (American Nurses Credentialing Center ANCC)
any many more.
Builtup Area : 14,53,000 SF Services : Building Design -
Architecture, MEPF Engineering, Interior
Design, Landscape Design,
Sustainability Collaboration : Stantec
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Landmark Civic Presence Integrated
with Cutting-Edge Health Care
Located on a prominent corner plot of the King Faisal Healthcare Complex at
the center of Riyadh, facing a nodal intersection of major city roads, this tertiary
care pediatric center presents a new landmark face to major civic campus.
This fact notwithstanding, the site on the campus was selected on the basis of
greater functional and infrastructural integration offered here as compared to
other sites under consideration. Given that this tertiary pediatric care center
was intended to be at par with the best such facilities globally, these factors
were critical to the site selection. Approached on the basis of the design team’s
previous experience involving the design of the best global benchmark projects
in the category, the collaborative team evolved a design which accounted not
just for the primary function of cutting edge delivery of pediatric tertiary care
but also for sensibilities towards socio-cultural and emotional requirements of
patients and their families.
Fanning out in a bow-shaped foot-print till the 6th floor
podium, the remaining five floors rise as three towers
connected by the two circulation cores. In-patient
facilities including wards and the NICU/ PICU are located
in the upper floors of towers, while out-patient,
emergency, and paramedical/ diagnostic services are
placed in the lower floors below the podium level.
Facilities for doctors and other staff have been located in
the intermediate levels to enable quick response/ access
to both parts of the hospital. Four levels of basement
take care of massive parking facilities, plant rooms for
the services, stores and other infrastructure, including a
connection to the underground service tunnel of the
campus through the lowest basement level.
Contextual Design through Socio-Cultural and
Landscape Integration
Great care has been taken in the design to focus on making the TCPH a comfortable and homely place of cheer
and hope for the young patients and their families/ care-givers. Landscape has been integrated at multiple
levels in the building viz. around inclined columns fronting the recessed exterior or the ground floor, at the
podium level to create staff gardens, in between the towers to create patients’ gardens topped by iconic roof
structure. The cheerful child-friendly interiors have special areas allocated for prayers and other customs. The
curtain wall glazing for the three towers is faced by contemporary laser cut metal versions of traditional
Mashrabiya screens displaying geometric patterns which are backlit in vibrant rainbow colors at night. During
the day, these help in shading from the harsh Saudi sun, as do other shading devices like stone cladding,
louvers and fins used as part of the façade system. Ample supportive family spaces throughout the public and
patient areas help in creating an inclusive approach towards the care of sick children and young people.
"A Contextually Integrated Approach to
Cutting-Edge Healthcare Design.”
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