Prophylaxis Prophylaxis point point ::
Wellness centre of the future is not just a healing home, but there could be a whole new world and experience in there !
wellness by nature
Urban Context ... ... through facade treatment
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The building tower components : Open -facade treatment
Services means at top of core
Treatment, or Prevent ?
Open facade with Perimeter Planting
Facade’s external randomlyopened - pattern ensure urban permeability
Private wellness programme
Wellness with urban interaction
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Since the early human settlements, health will always been a cencerning issues and will always been into the future. Therefore, there are many action taken and intiative have been made by human to ensure their life longetivity.
Indoor Air treatment distribution pipe
Integration of Wellness + Nature
Integration of Wellness + Nature
Indoor nature directly visible to adjacent building SemiTransparent perforated facade Panel
RC Central Shear Core 01 ( Structure & Transportation means)
Prophylaxis, or preventative care, is actions or treatment taken for disease prevention. This approach, is way cheaper, safer and better methodes to prevent illness rather than the critical way. Other than just resisting illness, preventative care also keeps people productive and active, enabling them to keep living well into their senior years. Studies have showed that health problem forced 35% of retired people into early retirement before they were ready financially.
Library
Prophylaxis Point, being a centre of wellness, is taking advantages based on the fact that nature contribute to physical wellbeing.
Indoor Verdant Park
In other aspects, it’s in human nature to seek shelter thus, people have been build buildings to serve several sosietal needs, and these few decades, building have undergone a revolution to be in vertical manner, as to cover the decreasing amount of land and massive need of human. Hence, combining these information, the idea is to implement wellness or healthcare programme into tall building, with integration of nature into the building.
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Integration of Wellness + Nature
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Facade structure steel joints
Verdant Park Indoor Air treatment distribution pipe
The potential / Positive issues
Health vs Wealth ? Tall building, since people start to build it has oversaw various revolution not only in material and form, but also its function.
Health inclusivity and accessibility in Kuala Lumpur can improve the public health.
Wellness Care through Ecology Using natural element to improve the health improvement programme
In ancient times, building is built to be closer to god and worship purposes
Political Tall demonstrate power through the depiction of leader’s control over a community. Taller, mean power. ... by adding the nature into the centre of the city ...
Paradox 2 Nature impact Nature’s direct positive impact to the human health .
Nature and Skyscraper There could bee a very direct connection between nature and activities, as shown below. Programme Activities Nature
Corporate Start of modern era people then use tall building to accomodate business means, and the richer the owner, the taller the building.
Programme Activities Nature
Sunlight & Wind
Temperature
Wellness is a complex interaction that leads to quality of life. There are severall type of wellness can be tackled, such as spiritual, emotional, social, intellectual and physical.
Iconic tall building or structure is a game changer, and bring the aesthetical value to represent a nation, economy and also experience.
What if in the Future By 2050, the world’s polulation is expected to exceed 10 bilions people, making overcrowded cities one of the most pressing issues of the present. To escape from the social issues, people seek wellness experience even in the busy metropolis city. Vertical healthcare then can be used to counter the growing and demanding need to improve people’s health as well to experience nature in the centre of city.
Emotional Wellness
Intellectual Wellness
Physical Wellness
Healing Realm concept
Social
Wellness
Staggered & Levelling
Spiritual
Emotional
Intellectual
Physical
Social
5 dimension of wellness Japanese
Iconic
Wellness ? Nature
Spiritual Wellness
In the context of a city full of people ...
Religious Value of Innovation
Building Programme
The open shaft perpendicular to each other is used to improve natural indoor air ventilation, and to accomodate the indoor air purification system’s services, as to control the in-building temperature due to Malaysia’s hot temperature in day.
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Entrance main lobby from drop off
Sustainable Strategies
RC Central Shear Core 02
Context of Kuala Lumpur
Community gallery and exhibition with seperate entrance
The building podium components :
RC Central Shear Core 01
Wealth of wellness Healthcare economical value is remarkably massive and demanding
Past, present and Future
Moving up to achieve total wellness programme
Paradox 1
The basic principal of the Prophylaxis Point’s form is inclined triangle-geometry derived from the concept of nature and mountains’s form. The building is a single mass form tower with two open shaft perpendicular at each end so that it look like two tower, and connected to each other through a central concrete core. The building form is larger in volume at the lower part of the tower and decrease in size as it moving up to the maximum floor of 25.
Leisure
Open doublevolume main ground lobby
Prophylaxis Point, being in the city of Kuala Lumpur, is very exposed to the micro-viruses and bacteria exist in the air. Hence, it is important to improve indoor air quality, as well to give comfort from the hot temperature. A conventional idea maybe air-conditioning system, such as split unit or AHU. But, a study have shown that airconditioning if not cleaned regularly, can be the source of health issues. Air contamination can become a severe problem that contributes to respiratory ailments in people. Additionally, air conditioning at work and home can lead to
Garden
Large Volume Green & Water
it can contribute to the health improvement in the city.
Nature Element
Private Area Individualistic Area
Verdant Garden
Green
Landscape
Semi-Private Programme Community Attachment Green Programme establishment
Lobby
The idea is to implement nature engagement throughout building’s perimeter, internal and externally. Exposed to nature, it can improve nervous, endocrine and immune system, improve blood pressure, heart rate and many more.
There are a building in China where a mechanical air purification was built to improve the urban’s air quality in Xuan, China, and it is proven to be workable. Using the same strategy, as well inspired from the small air purifier in standard home, the idea is to introduce a air treatment and temperature control system to help ensure good air quality in the building.
1. Input outdoor air motor 2. Vertical Piping as Filteration medium 3. HEPA Filter 4. Cooling Filter 5. Activated Carbon Filter 6. Brushless Motor Fan 7. Distribution Ducting