KUALA LUMPUR
UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE
SITE of 90 acres on a low sloping A
hill next to the campus of the University of Malaya, six miles from Kuala Lumpur, is being developed at a cost of M$50 million as a new medical centre and teaching hospital.
The five-year, four-phase building programme is due for completion by early next year, by which time more than 20 buildings will have been erect- ed on the site, which is bounded on the south by the main Federal High- way to Petaling Jaya and on the west by a minor road from which access is obtained to the University.
The centre has been developed from a study of the construction of several recent medical schools and a review of current trends in medical education. The linear plan form of the main building group is a direct
JAMES CUBITT AND PARTNERS
STEEN SEHESTED AND PARTNERS
LANGDON & EVERY (FAR EAST)
THOMAS ANDERSON AND PARTNERS
expression of both the phasing pro- gramme and the progress of a medical student through his years of training.
He starts at the north with the basic medical sciences (anatomy, phy- siology, biochemistry), proceeds next to the paraclinical departments (pathology and its allied disciplines). then to the hospital wards, out-patient department and related departments.
architects
civil and structural engineers
quantity surveyors
electrical and mechanical engineers
and finally to the maternity block and his eventual qualification.
The centre itself is planned around a main traffic route or spine corridor linking the administration building at the north with the hospital at the south, with wings extending from this corridor to the east, consisting of the teaching facilities (multi-discipline la- boratories, lecture halls, library, mus-
Aerial picture of the 90-acre site of the Medical Centre, University of Malaya
Far East Architect & Builder June, 1966
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