| Project name: | Simulator center |
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| Year: | 2020 |
| Location: | Olomouc, Hněvotínská |
| Investor: | Faculty of medicine, Palacky University |
| Project phases: | Form-finding, analytics, evolution alghorhitms, tender documentation |
| Hlavní architekt: | Tomáš Velehradský, Jakub Merta, Radek Hlaváček |
| OP celkem: | 1965 m2 |
Designed by Ateliér Velehradský, s.r.o. and SAGE, simulator center is a new university building with high tech medicine simulators to educate about the newest technologies used in medicine.
The simulator center is located on edge of the university campus. It is designed instead of a brownfield area. It helps to form the street and also helps to mark a new entrance to the campus / hospital area.The entrance is highlighted by a small park for students to relax in.
The shape of the simulator center comes from inside of the building. Except for simulator classrooms there is a university cafeteria and new auditorium. The auditorium was too big for the property so it is located on the 2nd and 3rd floor where the facade could expand above the pedestrian part of the street. The rest of the facade was then morphed to fit the style of the expanding parts. The final shape has two axes of symmetry, which were later broken by making openings for the main entrance, service entrance and fire escape routes.
Due to the soft shape of the building a curtain system was chosen as a facade. Due to the building being financed by the public the main goal was to use as many standardized parts as possible. The facade construction is made of standard aluminum profiles mounted to a concrete skeleton. The facade uses limits of standard facade systems such as maximum angles between neighbor panels, maximum angles between profiles, maximum profiles connecting at one point, etc.
The construction is covered with glass and full panels. Glass panels are additionally passively shaded. The positions of glass panels with shading panel and full panels were designed using an evolution algorithm based on parameters of heat transfer coefficient per facade, light transmittance per room, maximum solar heat gain in winter and minimum solar heat gain in summer. The optimisation of heat gain was made by modifying shading panel size. The full panel is made as a sandwich metal sheet panel with insulation and glass on the exterior side to unify the look of the facade.
