Pinoy-designed hospital lands as finalist in world’s best future health facilities

A Filipino-designed hospital facility in Pangasinan was named as one of the finalists for the world’s best healthpurposed future projects by leading global architectural experts and will be among those presented in this year’s World Architecture Festival to be held in Amsterdam in December.

“Sagip-Kanlungan,” a compact hospital model for disaster-prone rural Philippines, joins only six other finalists in its category. The festival has received entries from 70 countries across the globe. This is the first time in the festival’s history that a Filipino entry has actually made the final cut in the healthcare design category.

“We are excited not just to represent our country in this prestigious competition, but, more importantly, to contribute something that will bring real benefits to the way hospitals are built and how healthcare is delivered most especially in the countryside,” said Sagip-Kanlungan architect, John Ryan Santos of the firm John Ryan Satos+Partners.

Sagip-Kanlungan is a 40bed low-rise facility that promises to provide world class healthcare to the communities it will serve.

It is designed to be disasterresilient particularly against typhoons which regularly hit the Philippines. It has a shelter mode that shields all windows and vulnerable openings with metal shutters and s provided with redundant backup power systems.

The various open spaces within the site have also been designed to accommodate tent housing for evacuated residents.