Integrated Redesign of Rehabilitation Center for Mentally Disabled

Abstract

Our Project is the redesign of Nablus Rehabilitation Center (Rehabilitation Center for Mentally Retarded) in the North of West Bank. This center will be designed to respect most of the requirements of the Palestinian Green Building Guidelines and seismic design. In this project we will concentrate on improving building performance in energy, water and material consumption. Also, indoor air quality will be a major concern in our proposed building with high air quality and low CO2 emissions. In addition to that, the building will be in harmony with its neighborhood with minimal pollution to the environment including noise generation also we will take in mind the seismic design to be designed in the building.         In this semester: Depending on the information that collected in the first semester, we will start in redesign as following:           Improving of architectural designs          Design an addressing the environmental aspects and specify green buildings specification in the design          Do the seismic design of the building          Do simulation analysis for energy performance and natural lighting of the building          Design the other systems like mechanical, electricaletc. ( Integration the design)( ) .         .  .   : :                                              ... . ( )