- Title
- Reaching the isolated through the design of air clinic facility in Moshoeshoe II, Maseru Lesotho pre-hospital care and transport
- Creator
- Lesia, Tumelo Emmanuel
- Subject
- Medical centers -- Lesotho -- Maseru -- Designs and plans Health facilities -- Lesotho -- Maseru
- Date Issued
- 2016
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MArch
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/39284
- Identifier
- vital:35071
- Description
- The purpose of this research is to develop a design of an Air Clinic Facility, to reach the isolated people in the highlands of Lesotho. This came through the realization of the access barrier created by the mountainous terrain, making it difficult to supply medical care to isolated communities. The aim of this research is to investigate a suitable architectural approach to an air clinic facility as a device that will make reaching the isolated effortless. Emergency healthcare architecture principles have been employed as a remedial strategy to the design. The motive behind this treatise originates from the authors desire to understand the role that architecture can play to solve the accessibility issues facing the uplands. The choice to address the realm of emergency healthcare architecture also originates from the desire to understand the effect that architecture can have on the lives of ordinary people. The main architectural intervention will focus on the process of accessing and using the air clinic facility, whereby a mutually beneficial interaction between the program and the context will be realised.
- Format
- iv, 138leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Arts
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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| Thumbnail | File | Description | Size | Format | |||
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| View Details Download | SOURCE1 | 01. Introduction.pdf | 3 MB | Adobe Acrobat PDF | View Details Download | ||
| View Details Download | SOURCE2 | Understanding the Air Clinic Environment | 2 MB | Adobe Acrobat PDF | View Details Download | ||
| View Details Download | SOURCE3 | Architectural Issues | 3 MB | Adobe Acrobat PDF | View Details Download | ||
| View Details Download | SOURCE4 | Understanding Emergency Healthcare Environment | 2 MB | Adobe Acrobat PDF | View Details Download | ||
| View Details Download | SOURCE5 | Design Development | 10 MB | Adobe Acrobat PDF | View Details Download |