View of Blood Centre from northeast with main hospital road in the forefront
ceal the cold room plant area and the walls around the cold rooms them- selves.
Architecturally, the centre is a linear building, contained by the east and west walls, and this concept is em- phasised by the modelling of the north and south elevations. Primary colours have been used externally as a counter to the fairfaced concrete and a major feature of the interior is the orange painted butterfly roof over the waiting
area.
The brief for the centre called for a multi-purpose building which could gradually assume its important role as the headquarters of the nation's blood services, while having further expan- sion possibilities if required. Expan- sion has been allowed for to the south, and flexibility by designing stores and
garages for easy conversion into fur- ther laboratories.
The centre includes all the dis- ciplines associated with a transfusion service and will have six main func-
tions:
1. donation centre for blood for the
Federal Capital.
2. reception and storage centre for blood from mobile units operating in the surrounding areas.
3. supply centre for Malaysia for blood
products and rare blood groups.
4. processing centre for producing vari- ous blood products and laboratory reagents.
5. administrative centre of blood ser-
vices throughout Malaysia.
6. training centre for blood services
technicians.
Blood donation areas of the build-
ing are all on the ground floor. A donor arriving at the main entrance will be received by reception and his record card found or, if he is a new donor, made out. A sample of blood will then be taken at the same counter and screened for suitability. If the test is satisfactory the donor will then move from the waiting hall to the bleeding room, which can accom- modate 12 donors, and will there give one pint of blood, afterwards resting in the rest area or the garden outside and being given refreshment from the refreshment counter. The entrance hall has been made large enough to accom- modate a major group of donors, such as the Armed Forces, at any one time and the reception counter long enough to accommodate social workers and Red Cross personnel as well as the cen-
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