Course: ID Context 1
Project : Re-purposing Petrol Station to Magnify Center by Mercy Malaysia
Client : Mercy Malaysia
Site : Petron Subang Jaya SS14
ABOUT Magnify Centers provide healthcare and medicine for people to medicate in the nearest centers. In case of any emergency or accident happen ambulance can send a patient to this center to have medical treatment. If the condition of an injury patient crisis, it will immediately send to the nearest hospital. Due to coronavirus, hospitals are facing a shortage of beds, and many hospitals are already overwhelmed. Designing healthcare is to prevent breakout that happened that are not enough bed for a patient to have a place to medicate. To reduce this problem happen to re-purpose or rethinking a hospital is the best solution.
Re-purposing existing facilities such as the petrol station can also rapidly repurposed to become a healthcare center for a short period. This center may be an outside hospital during the pandemic that happens like COVID-19. In short, it also provides health and wellness to give people more choices to have medical facilities. Changing the design of the existing facilities, in particular,locations near urban areas is a must. To prevent any patients die in the route going to the medical center and the population of patients they serve. If increasing the amount of the hospital but no patients going in to medicate, it will waste one of the medical centers.
Designing a healthcare center for surge capacity due to the COVID-19
For the walk-in patient, the waiting area provided to have a seat before receiving medical treatment.
Provide care to treat patients from accidents or falls, for example, car accidents, gunshots, and others. Save people from an accident to have better treatment in this center.
To let the patient have a rest after surgery or need to stay overnight to observe the situation after surgery. The design of the ceiling is from a microscope; it also looks like a triangle shape. Family members can have a seat during the visiting time. A small side table provided to put personal things.
Surgery room for patient having critical injuries to medicate immediately.
Blood donation area for volunteers to donate blood, to prevent blood shortage in blood bank.