Medical Housing Compound / Studio Tam associati

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  • Architects: Studio Tam associati: Studio tamassociati – Raul Pantaleo, Massimo Lepore, Simone Sfriso, con Pietro Parrino y Gino Strada
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2009
  • Photographs
    Photographs:Raul Pantaleo

Text description provided by the architects. Looking at the amount of discarded containers laying around the building site of the Salam Centre we had this simple idea: to use them again in order to realize the required international staff housing compound.

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© Raul Pantaleo

The Compound placed besides the Hospital, in the surroundings of the Nile river, is realized around a great courtyard full of wonderful mango trees. It consists of 95 20ft-containers for housing and 7 40ft-containers for the cafeteria. Every lodging is 20 sqm and is realized with one and a half containers; the lodging is composed of bedroom, bathroom and a small veranda on the court side.

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© Raul Pantaleo

Peculiar care has been dedicated to insulation and energy saving. The containers are insulated with a “layer system”. Inside the container 5 cm insulating panels have been placed. The outside “skin” is realized with a second insulated roof and a bamboo brise-soleil panel system. In this way the sunrays never hit the containers. This system involves a huge energy saving. Solar panels also supply hot water for the entire compound.

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© Raul Pantaleo

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Address:Soba, Khartoum, Sudan

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Cite: "Medical Housing Compound / Studio Tam associati" 17 Mar 2010. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/52911/medical-housing-compound-studio-tam-associati> ISSN 0719-8884

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