HEALTHCARE ARCHITECTURE AWARD 2003
KATTA PUBLIC GENERAL HOSPITAL
 Perched on top of a small hill surrounded by a 360 degree view of the beautiful Shiroishi City landscape of Miyagi prefecture the new Katta Public General Hospital will lead the hospital design field with its human and environmental friendly design and various safety details not found on many of the new hospitals today.
 Unlike the old Katta Public Hospital the new building has everything a modern hospital requires and more. The infrastructure of the hospital program focused on creating an easy to understand layout of the hospital while providing a professional yet inviting atmosphere not only for the employee of the hospital, but for the patients and their families as well. For earthquakes and other natural disasters the building incorporate a base isolation system and it has its own self-sufficiency program for producing its own water and electricity for the event of an emergency.
 The three levels of the hospital have distinctly different atmosphere to match their program. The first floor consists of front desk, consultation rooms, and treatment rooms under the clean high ceiling, near the front. The examination rooms are behind those areas. The second floor has a much more private atmosphere for offices, and hospital operation spaces. And third floor is for patient rooms.
Location Shiroishi, Miyagi
Number of bed 308 (including 4 for infectious disease, 4 for tubeaculosis)
Site area 55,162m2
Total floor area 25,862m2
Structure Steelframe and reinforced concrete (partly RC/S); four stories
Completion March 2002
Architect architects collabarative(Taro Ashihara Architects; Koh Kitayama + Architecture Workshop; Hideo Horiie Atelier)

 HEALTHCARE ARCHITECTURE AWARD 2003
FUKUSHIMA PREFECTURAL KORIYAMA SCHOOL
FOR THE PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED
 This school for physically challenged children is located in a residential area northeast of Koriyama. The school has a close tie with an adjacent medical facility. Some of the characteristics of this project are : 1) on-site replacement to keep students in the same residential area for "normalization", 2) involvement of students and teachers through workshops from the planning phase to the completion of the facility. The spiral slope is one of the ideas proposed by students. Such features as lightcourts, toplights and clerestories are carefully integrated into the facility configuration in order to facilitate inter-floor communication/interaction through visibility. The entire facility operates on a sequence of hierarchy from a small group size to a large school comunity.
Location Koriyama, Fukushima
Number of bed -
Site area 23,424m2
Total floor area 13,525m2
Structure Reinforced concrete (partly steel-frame); two stories
Completion March 2002
Architect Kazuo Watabe/Yui Architects & Planners

 HEALTHCARE ARCHITECTURE AWARD 2003
NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT
 The child health and development service is a new type of medical service involving continual and comprehensive care covering the whole life cycle, the fetus, infant, child, adolescent, and pregnant adult.
 The National Center For Child Health And Development was established to serve this purpose and various architectural features were incorporated to better serve the needs of patients and their families. The following are its major design concepts.
・"super hospital" : provision of advanced medical service and utilization of IT
・"clean hospital" : consideration for infection control
・"green hospital" : consideration for environment
・"family hospital" : consideration for child patients and their families
Location Setagaya, Tokyo
Number of bed 500
Site area 78,000m2
Total floor area 60,700m2
Structure Steelframe and reinforced concrete; two basements and twelve floors
Completion February 2002
Architect Dept. of National Hospital, Ministry of Health, Labor & Welfare ; Nikken Sekkei ; Environment Design Institute

 HEALTHCARE ARCHITECTURE AWARD 2003
LIFE PARTNER KOBUSHI
 This article features a facility for the mentally challenged located in a western suburb of Tokyo. One of the goals of the design is to create a homey and comfortable environment making the most of the existing old and big kobushi trees. Architectural materials such as troweled-on diatomaceous finish for walls and ceilings and various solid wooden finishes contribute to create a natural and simple environment, which is believed to promote health.
Location Higashikurume, Tokyo
Number of bed 30
Site area 1,389m2
Total floor area 1,018m2
Structure Reinforced concrete; one basement and three atories
Completion November 2000
Architect Eiichi Sugiura Architect & Associates

 HEALTHCARE ARCHITECTURE AWARD 2003
Dr. HAYAKAWA'S FAMILY CLINIC
 This clinic, which stands in a traditional neighborhood, is seeking to serve the community's medical need. By creating ambiance in the wating room with a fireplace, art and flower arrangements, the patient is treated with utmost care. the utilization of comfortable heat radiation and theachoice of natural materials for the interior (including natural wooden ceilings) are also efforts to show warm hospitality. Care is taken to present itself as an open facility seving the community with monthly diabetes seminars as well as occasional mini-concerts.
Location Kanagawa, Ishikawa
Number of bed -
Site area 281m2
Total floor area 473m2
Structure Wooden frame (partly reinforced concrete) ; one basement and two stories
Completion November 2001
Architect Ken Matsushima Architect & Associates

 HEALTHCARE ARCHITECTURE AWARD 2003
KYORITSU GENERAL HOSPITAL
 The hospital is the core hospital of the network operated by a healthcare service provider called Minato Seikyo (cooperative). The main goal of design is to create simple and easy way-finding for patients, by locating the vertical circulation core at the center of the hospital. Also created are pleasant and comfortable environments for outpatients' waiting areas that open to a garden outside. A portion of the site is made open to the public, thus contributing to upgrading the local environments. Due to the aforementioned, this hospital was awarded Healthcare Architecture Awards for the year 2003.
Location Nagano, Aichi
Number of bed 434
Site area 7,575m2
Total floor area 26,958m2
Structure Steel-frame and reinforced concrete ; one basement and eight stories
Completion August 2001
Architect Takenaka Corporation
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