TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL

DESCRIPTIVE DATA

Project No.3:            Tan Tock Seng Hospital
Architecture Firm                                                                 of Record:           :    INDECO
Design Firm:             Ellerbe Becket
Completion Date:      2000
Role of Nominee:      Design Principal/Project Designer

This 1,100 Bed Acute Care Replacement Hospital and Outpatient Clinics and Research Building has a varying 4 to 13 story facility massing development for a 150,000 sm floor area program on a 6 hectare urban site designed for a multi-phased construction period. It is a comprehensive support, diagnostic, research facility focused on a National Neuroscience Center, Communicable Disease Center, and Cardiac Care Center. The architectural design of Tan Tock Seng Hospital is a response to program and phasing requirements, climate, socio-economic cultural sensitivity, and progressive concept of patient care that is “vast in scope, complex by its very nature, and climatically challenging” This twenty-first century geometrically organized, immense, public  medical facility development, yet able to express the many different medical functions and scale of activities, replaces a rambling pre-war British Colonial Ward Hospital.

The first-phase 4 story Outpatient Clinic, Physician Office and Research Buildings partially wraps the central second-phase 4 story Diagnostic and Treatment Block with a 9 story Inpatient Tower, a double set of paired triangular Nursing Units, rising above it. The Nursing Units accommodate a variety of patient bedroom configurations from single bedrooms to wards of 6 patients and whose triangular geometry helps facilitate cross ventilation. The main entry level Galleria provides a central circulation link between the inpatient and outpatient services.  The Courtyards provide air circulation and natural light through lush tropical gardens. The Exterior Walls provide for a deeply recessed and shaded glass for direct sun control. The Sunscreens allow natural light penetration without the resultant heat, especially for the non-air conditioned spaces. This architectural gesture creates a surface rich with expression of the climatic needs with a low technological architectural response in this demanding tropical location.

AWARDS RECEIVED:        

                1992 AIA National Honor Award Modern                               Healthcare
                1990 Competition First Prize
                2001 Building Construction Authority (BCA)                         Design Award
                2003 BCA Energy Efficient Building Award
                2006 BCA Green Mark Platinium Award

PUBLICATIONS:     

                Modern Healthcare November 1992