Royal Institute of British Architects’ name Bangladesh Hospital as World’s best new building- The New Indian Express

By On-line Desk

Friendship Hospital, Satkhira, an eighty-bed group hospital located in a distant rural space of southwest Bangladesh, designed by Bangladeshi architect Kashef Chowdhury/URBANA, has received the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) Worldwide Prize 2021.

The low-cost constructing was designed to work with and face up to the tangible local weather change results of rising seawater in the encircling space. A collection of courtyards usher in pure mild and air flow, whereas a canal traversing the positioning collects beneficial rainwater for the reason that groundwater stays unusable for many functions. This channel of water provides visible reduction, helps the micro-climatic cooling and supplies a welcome distraction from the nervousness and unhappiness associated to sickness, for each sufferers and their kin.

The RIBA Worldwide Prize is awarded each two years to a constructing that exemplifies design excellence and architectural ambition and delivers significant social affect. It is likely one of the world’s most rigorously judged architectural awards, with each longlisted constructing visited by worldwide specialists. 

The Friendship Hospital, Satkhira was chosen from a shortlist of three distinctive new buildings by the Grand Jury, chaired by world-renowned multi-disciplinary French architect Odile Decq.

In an announcement, Odile Decq stated:“Friendship Hospital embodies an structure of humanity and safety that displays the Friendship NGO’s philanthropic mission to supply dignity and hope to communities by way of social innovation. Kashef Chowdhury/URBANA has achieved a constructing designed with a human contact that’s deftly built-in with its environment and celebrates native, and historically crafted supplies. The hospital may be very related to important world challenges, comparable to unequal entry to healthcare and the crushing affect of local weather breakdown on weak communities. 
It’s a demonstration of how stunning structure may be achieved by way of good design when working with a comparatively modest funds and with tough contextual constraints. This hospital is a celebration of a constructing devoted to people.”