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Beautiful Sustainable Design of Health Centre by Richard Kroeker Design Posted: 08 Oct 2010 09:11 AM PDT Pictou Landing Health Centre was designed by Richard Kroeker Design, in collaboration with Peter Henry Architect. This building is used for a community centre and health facility for the Mi’kmaq community of Pictou Landing, Nova Scotia. This building consists of several rooms, such as clinics for doctors, dentist clinics, rooms for health workers, public health education room, meeting room. The shape of the building is almost a half circle, forms a protective south facing space around the garden for medical purposes and medicine wheel as the centre of the community. The form of the building also like a native longhouse from that area. This building was built by using several types of natural materials, such as woods, sphagnum moss for wall insulation (sandwiched between the barks), bark tubes for air intake, rock and insulated earth as a thermal-mass heat storage. This kind of thermal-mass heat storage is a traditional technique The building is heated and cooled using geothermal energy from a decommissioned municipal well. It uses 43% less energy than a conventional building of comparable size. Round poles are used for the truss of the building. By this technique, the wood’s cellulose strands are continuous from end to end and oriented in concentric cylinders, as they were structurally optimized by natural growth. This will minimize the use of saw and cutting wood to keep the fiber continuous. The curved roof is made from trusses, built from small diameter wood poles, lashed together with metal straps. The construction of the roof also provides natural air exhausts. The shape of the building maximize the sun for the garden and also provides wind protection. The building is divided into two parts, the west part and the east part. The west part contains the doctor and dentist clinics, also the health worker’s rooms. The east part contains the community gathering rooms. The entrance is located in the centre of the building. The waiting area is also used as a local art gallery. the gallery ref

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