The Ripple Primär funktion: Hospice av Minghan Lin, Yuchen Qiu and Hao Zhong

Designen The Ripple Primär funktion: Hospice av Minghan Lin, Yuchen Qiu and Hao Zhong är en högt ansedd vinnare av den mycket prestigefyllda 2026 A' Design Award i Silver i tävlingskategorin Arkitektur-, Byggnads- och Konstruktionsdesign.

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The Ripple Primär funktion: Hospice

av Minghan Lin, Yuchen Qiu and Hao Zhong

Vinnare av A' Design Award i Silver i kategorin Arkitektur

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Om The Ripple Primär funktion: Hospice

Boktext: The Ripple är ett hospiceförslag som struktureras av ett koncentriskt rumsligt system, genererat utifrån en central vattengård. Beläget i Chinatown, New York City, omdefinierar designen vården i livets slutskede som en urban medborgerlig upplevelse snarare än en isolerad institution. Lager av trösklar, innergårdar och träinhägnader vägleder rörelsen från det offentliga livet mot stilla reflektion. Integrerat dagsljus, vatten och passiva miljöstrategier skapar sensorisk ro och stödjer integritet, orientering och emotionellt välbefinnande genom själva arkitekturen.

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Om A' Design Award i Silver

The Ripple Primär funktion: Hospice är vinnare av A' Design Award i Silver, ett utomordentligt prestigefyllt erkännande som tilldelas förstklassiga, hänförande och imponerande designverk i toppskiktet. Silvervinnare är oerhört briljanta och utomordentligt kreativa verk som illustrerar sina formgivares enastående expertis, talang och skarpsinne. The Ripple Primär funktion: Hospice förväntas vara ett underbart paradexempel som är anmärkningsvärt professionellt och djupt innovativt. Detta vinnande verk i A' Design Award i Silver är en mycket uppmärksammad, beundrad uppfinning som gagnar och flyttar fram gränserna för konst, vetenskap, design och teknik. The Ripple Primär funktion: Hospice är en skapelse som avundas starkt, som väcker längtan, förmedlar positiva känslor och väcker förundran och häpnad.

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Unika egenskaper: The Ripple reimagines hospice as an urban civic sanctuary structured by a concentric ripple geometry generated from a single water court. Architecture, structure, circulation, and environmental systems align within one continuous spatial logic, integrating hybrid timber construction, passive ventilation, and water reuse. The design transforms end-of-life care into a collective, sensory experience embedded within the life of the city.
Dimensioner & förpackning: The project employs a hybrid timber system organized by concentric structural rings. Curved CLT load-bearing wall segments rise from a continuous concrete foundation datum, supporting stepped roof bands with integrated skylights, photovoltaic tiles, and rainwater collection gutters. Environmental systems include stacked passive ventilation, hydronic radiant floor slabs, and on-site water filtration and reuse.
Taggar: Hospice, Healthcare Design, Sensory experience, Therapeutic environment,
Produktionsteknik: The project was developed through an integrated design methodology where geometry, structure, and environmental systems evolve from a single concentric datum. Digital modeling and iterative sectional studies guided spatial, daylight, and airflow performance. A hybrid timber system using curved CLT wall segments, cavity assemblies, and a continuous concrete base enables structural clarity while integrating rainwater collection, passive ventilation, and radiant conditioning within one coordinated assembly.
Designutmaning: The primary challenge was reconciling hospice care’s need for privacy and calm with the density and intensity of an urban Chinatown context. Social perceptions of hospice as isolated institutions required rethinking care as civic and accessible. Spatially, integrating sensory comfort, acoustic privacy, and environmental performance within a compact site demanded precise coordination of structure, water systems, and daylight. The project resolves these tensions through a unified geometric and environmental strategy.
Forskning: Design research combining healthcare design and environmental psychology. Objective: improve patient privacy and emotional comfort in hospice settings. Methodology explored spatial sequencing and sensory design strategies. Experiential scenarios tested water sound as a non-visual privacy buffer.
Inspiration: The Ripple is inspired by the universal image of a water drop generating expanding rings, symbolizing the continuity of life, memory, and collective care. Research into hospice environments, sensory psychology, and traditional courtyard typologies informed a design that replaces institutional isolation with spatial calm, gradual thresholds, and communal presence, integrating cultural reflection with environmental performance.
Projektlängd: The project was developed between September 2025 and Janurary 2026 as part of an architectural design competition. The Ripple is located in Chinatown, New York City, where it reimagines hospice care within a dense urban context. The proposal explores how end-of-life care can integrate with everyday civic life through architecture, landscape, and community-oriented programming.
Arbetsflöde: Movement through Ripple follows expanding concentric rings, guiding visitors from the active city edge toward increasing quiet and intimacy. Thresholds, courtyards, and water elements choreograph gradual emotional transition rather than abrupt separation. Daylight, airflow, and acoustic water features respond passively to occupancy and climate, supporting orientation, privacy, and calm—allowing care to unfold through spatial experience rather than institutional control.
Patent: Minghan Lin, Yuchen Qiu, Hao Zhong
Teammedlemmar: Minghan Lin
Yuchen Qiu
Hao Zhong
Bildkrediteringar: Minghan Lin, Yuchen Qiu, Hao Zhong