Ivan Moiseenko. Modular development competences.

Modular Design & Development

Theory and R&D

My competences by Stages

Practical Modular Development

Modular General Hospital

(MSc Architecture, Politecnico di Milano)

Task: General hospital for 350 beds, design stage

Authors: Ivan Moiseenko

Design: 2015 - 2016

Location: Pensa city, Russia

Supervisors: Stefano Capolongo, Marco Gola, Politecnico di Milano

Link to full thesis: https://issuu.com/ivanmoiseenko/docs/2016_07_moiseenko

Burdenko hospital territory

Current hospital site. (author Ivan Moiseenko)

Public access greenery

New hospital within urban tissue. (author Ivan Moiseenko)

Internal private court yards for hospital patients

This is final overview of renovated hospital complex. New structure is connected with existing hospital tower and unifies the majority of hospital buildings on the plot. Hospital street connects all buildinga and departments of the hospital not only on the ground floor, but on the upper levels as well by bridges and elevators. Some of the internal yards are covered on 2d level to organize sport and special medicare activities, such as surgery block. Internal courtyards on ground level are reserved for out-patients, who come to the hospital for an appointment, while roof gardens are for in-patients of the wards. This design strategy allows to separate patient flows, which is quite important in hospital.

This scheme shows organisational spatial structure of the ground floor. Two main categories of users - doctors and patients are separated and have their own entrances and areas. At the same time, there are a lot of interaction and public spaces on the ground floor. Hospital street, the main artery of the hospital contains meeting places, shopping pavilions, and information desks. From the hospital street it is possible to get internal court yards, both covered and open ones. Upper left court yard contains surgery block with tis own entrances and ambulance parking garage. Such location of surgery block in one level provides higher level of daily operational flows.

Bottom-up flexibility design principles used in Burdenko general hospital renovation project

The purpose of this model is to test the designed modular system of the standard hospital building. Model schows up main skeleton and insterted modules.

Primary and secondary stabilized systems are also represented here. External segments of main skeleton have diagonal connections in order to stabilize structural system. They repeat in every two sections, and provide flexible internal layout together with structural stability.

Main skeleton consists of primary columns and beams with the crossection of 300 mm. Secondary horizontal beams have crossection of 120 mm and perceive the load from the modules.

Facades of the modules represent different functions of the hospital departments. This concept came to me from the complicated nature of hospital complex. Different healthcare facilities require different amount of sun light, as well as can represent themselves by various facade topics. Visitor can see different materials, and rythm of windows, which make the perception of the hospital more diverse and nonmonotoneous. Some of the modules have cantilever parts, which allows to organize terraces for in-patient wards.

Hospital facades highlight different departments represented in the complex and correlated with amount of light required for one or another function. Office and research facilities along hospital street require high amount of daylight and have wide widnowframes. Last floors of standard hospital buildings are technical ones, and do not require sunlight, in general. Colorful facade panels on this level make building more playful. levels of hospital departments has their own facade themes, and deliver human scale for internal court yards.

This number of different facade solutions makes an entire complex diverse and non-monotoneous. By being inside, visitors can see different themes and scales, which, again, makes hospital perception diversified. Hospital street has identical facade solution, which corresponds with connectivity function of this place, while different hospial buildings have different facade topics. All together they create an interesting solution with different layers and themes.

Economic feasibility of prefab solutions in hospital construction

Graduation project, TU Delft (MSc Management in the built environment)

Task: Financial assessment of modular construction in hospitals

Authors: Ivan Moiseenko

Design: 2016 - 2017

Supervisors: Ruben Vrijhoef, Peter de Jong

This master thesis project is a continuation of the work done by me in Politecnico di Milano, where my graduation project was design proposal of modular general hospital. Hospital typology is in my focus for several years already, based on its complicated nature and demand to combine technological issues with spatial and architectural quality.

Milan project examined most relevant trends in modern hospital development and focused on flexibility in hospital building. Hospital flexibility is one of the main strategies in hospital design and construction today, since obsolescence of medical facilities is such a quick that hospital requires a renovation after 10 years of use (Capolongo et al, 2012). In order to test all aspects of hospital flexibility, the real general hospital in Pensa, one of the Russian cities, was taken for the analysis and renovation flexible project was designed. Renovation proposal was done in a modular way to test this flexible scenario. (see previous pages of this part).

In order to research feasibility aspects of modular hospital development, the standard module from Milan project was analyzed and compared with conventional construction process. The purpose was to understand whether any savings in time and cost in modular hospital construction comparing to traditional one. The outcome of the research is represented on the next pages.

Technical feasibility

Materials required

Labor required

Resources required

Transport required

Feasibility study research concept

Economic feasibility

Legal feasibility

Operational feasibility Schedule feasibility

Materials costs

Labor costs

Resources costs

Transport costs

Benefits > Costs

Legal requirements

Legal obligations

Legal codes

Process structure

Company’s structure

Schedule phases

Schedule deadlines

Main research question:

To which extent are prefab solutions in healthcare design and construction are more economically feasible than traditional methods?

2 fields are selected for feasibility analysis:

Economic feasibility

Operational feasibility

Based on the analysis of different parameters in design, construction and use phases, savings in modular construction were identified and summarized by me in this final table. Savings in design phase are highly depend on client request and amount of predesigned elements. The higher this amount is and the lower the client’s demand for changing of the standard layout, the higher time and costs savings in this phase of modular construction.

Savings in construction phase come from the nature of module’s production process with fixed number of operations, strict regulations of resources flow and indoor assembly environment. These factors allow to save up to 30% in costs and up to 80% in time, based on quick assembly of completed modules on construction site.

Use phase results in 0,5% reductions in annual maintenance costs, as well as up to 50% in refurbishment phase, mostly based on fixed number of components inside the module and responsibility of one general manufacturer for their change. Finally, relocation of the modular building is an exclusive preregative of modular construction, which allows to use building several times in different locations.