Ukrainian studio Zikzak Architects has launched its design for the primary Ronald McDonald Home in Ukraine, which can present momentary housing to youngsters receiving remedy at Kyiv’s Okhmatdyt hospital and their households.
Zikzak Architects CEO Alesia Karnaukhova says the Ronald McDonald Home in Kyiv “will change into a second house for households of out-of-town youngsters present process remedy”.
With virtually 400 related initiatives worldwide, the Ronal McDonald Home program presents free housing to noticeably in poor health youngsters, notably those that have travelled from distant cities to obtain remedy, to allow them to dwell comfortably close to their hospital.
Set to be accomplished in 2025, the three,500-square-metre constructing could have a reinforced-concrete body construction, ceramic block partitions, and a clinker tile and brick facade.
The challenge might be 5 storeys tall and include 50 bedrooms with their very own loos, offering residing preparations for two,600 youngsters and their households per 12 months.
Designed to have a homely environment, the constructing will characteristic communal areas on the bottom flooring and a roof terrace, offering area for kids to play and households to work together.
“The format selections are primarily based on making a homely environment and a pleasant group for younger sufferers, their households, employees and volunteers,” Karnaukhova informed Dezeen.
“We continued the philosophy of the challenge: a ‘house away from house’ that brings folks collectively, providing hope, love, and care.”
A kitchen and eating space on the bottom flooring will overlook a playroom to offer adults a direct view of their youngsters whereas getting ready meals.
Cellular partitions will encompass a convention corridor, which might be moved to open or shut the area to the kitchen and eating space.
“The kitchen and eating space are designed as one massive area, permitting the residents of the home to spend time collectively,” defined Karnaukhova.
“In such a particular setting, youngsters will discover pleasure and inspiration for play, whereas households will get pleasure from heat interactions.”
Because the battle in Ukraine continues to devastate the nation, ZikZak Architects designed an underground bomb shelter for the Ronald McDonald Home in Kyiv to offer shelter and facilities for 197 folks.
It is going to embrace a kitchen, meals storage room, wardrobes, loos, showers, and storage areas.
On the constructing’s exterior, clinker tiles and bricks might be laid in quite a lot of patterns to create a textured facade that blends in with the encompassing buildings
Vibrant window frames will punctuate the outside so as to add a way of playfulness.
In response to Zikzak Architects, the studio added rounded corners to the housing’s rectangular design, knowledgeable by the close by Home for Navy Households.
“Rounded cornices echo the types of the adjoining Home for Navy Households, a cultural heritage web site, giving the constructing comfortable, refined contours,” stated Karnaukhova.
“The roundness of the cornices gently contrasts with the straight strains of the partitions, creating a singular graphic concord symbolising unity and tender assist.”
Okhmatdyt is the biggest youngsters’s hospital in Ukraine. In constructing a Ronald McDonald Home close by, the charity hopes to maintain households collectively and scale back stress and monetary burden whereas youngsters obtain vital medical care.
“The Ronald McDonald Home program is very useful to households who come for his or her kid’s remedy from one other metropolis or village and can’t afford costly momentary housing in Kyiv,” stated the Ronald McDonald Home Charity.
“Right here, households can cowl all their fundamental wants and concentrate on their kid’s restoration – all that is only a few steps away from the hospital.”
Based in 2014, Zikzak Architects is an structure studio with places of work in Kyiv and Limassol, Cyprus. Final 12 months, the studio designed a modular faculty in Kyiv to assist restore infrastructure destroyed within the Ukraine Battle.
Different Ronald McDonald Homes printed on Dezeen embrace studio flats in Hamburg designed by Zaha Hadid Architects and a collection of gabled brick buildings on a hospital campus in Glasgow.
The photographs are by Zikzak Architects.
