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DOHA Cooling Plant

šŸ— Category: Industrial Architecture

⚲ Location: DOHA, QATAR

šŸ—“ Year: 2024

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NORTH ELEVATION STREET RENDER


SOUTH ELEVATION STREET RENDER


WEST ELEVATION STREET RENDER


WATER TANK FACADE RENDER

WATER TANK FACADE PHOTO


WATER TANK FACADE PHOTO


GROUND FLOOR PLAN

SOUTH ELEVATION

WEST ELEVATION

CONTEXT

This architectural and engineering design project reimagines a high-performance hospital campus by integrating advanced facade technologies with a sophisticated, sustainable cooling system. The proposal leverages metal faƧade innovation, district cooling infrastructure, and air-cooled chillers to deliver a resilient, energy-efficient medical environment built for future growth.Drawing from modern architectural trends, the hospital building shows a precision-engineered metal faƧade, combining both aesthetic refinement and functional performance. The use of metal panels ensures durability, visual uniformity, and an efficient thermal envelope—supporting the building’s long-term maintenance goals while also delivering a clean and contemporary visual identity.Supporting this envelope, the cooling strategy is anchored by a district cooling plant, similar to large-scale systems used in transformative infrastructure projects.


The plant is designed to serve critical areas of the hospital: surgical suites, clinical wings, outpatient facilities, and diagnostic labs. By centralizing cooling capacity, the system enables efficient management of thermal loads, redundancy, and long-term scalability aligned with institutional expansion.In parallel, site-level air-cooled chillers and cooling towers complement the district plant. These modular systems allow localized cooling volumes to flex with variable demand while minimizing reliance on potable water. This hybrid configuration enables both energy optimization and operational resilience, ensuring the hospital remains thermally stable even during peak loads or plant maintenance.The master plan places patient well-being at its heart: landscaped rooftop terraces, integrated sky gardens, and shaded outdoor waiting areas all benefit from the passive cool-down enabled by the efficient facade and cooling architecture.


The net result is a hospital that is not only functionally robust, but also sustainable, resilient, and deeply responsive to environmental concerns. Architectural form and building systems converge to create a healing space defined by energy intelligence, design clarity, and long-term operational excellence.