Author Archives: Ine Ringlund

To make a health clinic that will work in real life, we had to figure out where to place the different components. Both where it needs to be placed  in relation to each other and where to place them to be best able to prevent spreading of the disease.

What needs to be included in the clinic: 

Triage, High-risk patient area, low-risk patient area , showers, toilets, pharmacy, foot baths, morgue, convalescence area, de-sanitation area and kitchen. 

Staff member areas: 

De-sanitation area, changing area, kitchen, toilets, showers, risk area exit, risk area entrance, Storage area, meeting room, office space and relaxation area.

We have also started making a models, of our folded rooms. The main rooms, that needs to be totally enclosed, will be made by having a box that can fold out and make a big room. The boxes will fit inside the container, and will take up a small amount of space as possible.

The boxes have been named the curie box, after our group name.

The next step was to think about the extensions from the curie box. The idea is to use a tent structure, that is both light and easy to store inside the container. And by using a triangle structure with wire in the roof, it will be structurally stable and strong.

– Ine Ringlund

The day has come, The first day of Design week. We have both looked forward to and been scared of this moment. 

The day started by dividing the class into groups, the groups consists of Natalia and Linden from Architecture technology and Steph and Ryan from Hazlewick school. The group were given the name Marie Curie, after the great female physicist and chemist, that is the only one to ever win two Nobel prizes in two different categories.

We were then given the task that we would work on for the next few weeks. We were going to build a Shipping container health clinic. The aim was to make a clinic that can be movable, and operational when it comes to the Ebola crisis in western Africa. The client is UNICEF, and need to include every aspect needed in a health clinic.

After the task was handed out, the brainstorming began, both when it came to design, materials and functionality. We all came up with different ideas and shared them with the group and after a while, we where able to come up with an idea that everyone was pleased with.

Half of the task for this week is also to write on this blog, and we were given an introduction into how and where to write by Jason Bailey. And the group then had to write our first blog post about Marie Curie, the person our group is named after.

We were also given a presentation by our client for this project, Emmanuel. He has been working on health clinics before, when it comes to cholera. And he explained what is needed in a health clinic and some specifications in what is specially needed for a clinic located in western Africa that is meant for ebola victims.

We then went to see the modelling studio, where we will be making our models for the project.

We were also given a presentation by Poorang Piroozfar about industrialised systems for rapid construction. And showed different types of systems that we can use for inspiration in the project.

All inn all this has been a long but interesting day, learning about the project and going from brainstorming different ideas to agree on one type of design. The group is functioning well, and is on track for the next few days to come.

– Ine Ringlund

Marie Curie is known as one of the most important people in medicine. Even though she is known for her work in medicine, she has actually don’t have a degree in medicine and her biggest achievements, has nothing directly to do with medicine. 

Marie Curie was born as Maria Skłodowska in 1934 in Warsaw, Poland. As a a young woman she moved to Paris and studied maths and physics at one of the top Universities, Sorbonne University. As a 36 year old woman she won the the Nobel prize in Physics with her husband Pierre Curie, for the research withing radiation. She was the first woman to ever been given a Nobel Prize.

In 1911 she was again given a Nobel Prize, but this time within Chemistry. In recognition of her discovery of two new elements, Polonium and Radium. She was the first person to ever have been given two Nobel prizes in two different categories.

Even though her discoveries aren’t directly linked to medicine, her discoveries has impacted medicine in many different ways when it comes to radiation.

She died in 1934, from leukemia, probably mostly linked to her work within radiation.