Heal by H.S. from canada

Los Angeles, as a modern metropolis, incarnates a vivid identity with thrills of entertainment, fames, and fortune; however, local economic and social issues are masked in its smog. Illegal immigrants overpopulate the area and pose heavy financial burden to nearby healthcare facilities, which are eventually shut down in these poverty regions.

This project, Heal, is a future proposal that envisions a new typology of healthcare model in hedonistic sustainability. The design strives to increase the patients’ survival rate, fasten their healing process, yet decreases the electricity consumption, creating a more sustainable model in socioeconomic terms. Our key promise is to combine the high efficiency from urban hospitals and the spiritual experience from Scandinavia; therefore it maximizes users satisfaction and provides patients an enjoyable journey.

The proposed hospital is located on the north side of the Hollywood Hills. Based on the ideas of one directional approach, additive-to-recessive model, horizontal Tetris, louver system, and refined medicines, this project can significantly increase the efficiency of the healthcare model. Faster turnover time of each room allows more patients to be accessed. Profit thus increases. With the K.E. - P.E. - E.E. system enabled, the architecture itself becomes a self-sustain ecosystem that generates electricity for its own use. Operating cost of the facilities further reduces, in which surplus allows organization of funding programs for the less-fortune group in the community.

This way, the project does not just heal individuals; indeed it heals the society.