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WTA Design 60 Emergency Quarantine Facilities to Fight COVID-19

April 14, 2020February 15, 2021 Christele Harrouk | Archdaily

Emergency Quarantine Facility (EQF) at the Manila Naval Hospital, Quezon City

As hospitals around the world are reaching their capacity, the architecture and design community is developing new alternatives to fight COVID-19. In order to build 60 Emergency Quarantine Facilities (EQF), WTA was inspired by their pavilion developed last year, part of the Anthology Festival. A viable quarantine structure, the Boysen Pavilion “embodied speed, scalability and simplicity in its structure”.

Planned to limit cross-contamination, the EFQ design generated designated entries for patients and healthcare workers. Moreover, the airflow is directed downwind from front to rear to prevent recirculation. With drawings of EQF made public, any community can duplicate the facility and have a quick response.

Principal Architect of WTA Architecture and Design Studio William Ti and Dr. Glenn Angeles collaborated with Maj. Carmelo Jaluague and Maj. Banjo Torres Badayo to mobilize the construction of an Emergency Quarantine Facility.

Basing their design on their adaptable Boysen Pavilion, repurposed into a 6m x 26m rectilinear facility equipped with 15 beds, two toilets, a shower, a testing box, and disinfecting areas, WTA is creating short-term relief spaces. The temporary structures, aiming to augment the capacity of hospitals, are built with wood and enveloped in plastic, facilitating the addition of more modules. In fact, they can be replicated anywhere throughout the country.

Archdaily features WTA Project Emergency Quarantine Facility in WTA Design 60 Emergency Quarantine Facilities to Fight COVID -19. Click here to read more. 

Interior Space of Emergency Quarantine Facility in Capitol Medical Center by EQF Team
Emergency Quarantine Facility (EQF) in Makati, Manila design by WTA for COVID 19 PUI

Learn more about the EQF

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