Gairamudi Healthpost provisional plan

 

 

Details provisional  drawing

1) Open stairs wood. Stairs should end in the middle of the roof-line. Optional is stairs outside the house. Should be simple stairs.

2) Chimney + pipe suitable for wood fire, zo no normal galvanized geyser-pipe!

There should be a closed stove in the healthpost, never open fire!

3) Water tap point. Shower. Bathroom floor and wall cement and tiles

4) Seats or bench waiting patients.

5) toilet, were to make toilet. If near or attached to the house there should be an extra door, otherwise sick patient must walk around the house if they stay over night.

Place of toilet is pending situation and kind of toilet. If normal wc with water it could be attached if

“Local Nepal style” it should be situated  some far from the house.
 

 


 

 

Details

 1) The facades: We should make the roof section very light and not build up from stone.

In stone it would be earthquake affected. Best materials are wood or bamboo mats.

Wood is scares and expensive and need painting every 3 years and affected by worms and insects. Bamboe is light cheap and strong.

 

2) The walls should be earth quake proof. The best earthquake proof are flexible like bamboo, straw and Hemp, but the villagers fear for fire.
Straw could be covered by cement or with mud. This makes fireproof, the straw is not in sight. The straw is needed for the buffalo’s to eat and
not so much available and there should be a straw press which could also be a hand-press.

 

So if they like to have stonewalls, there should be made a cage construction anyway.

Students of our technical university are testing this a rubble stones technic. After testing they start eventually a pilot project in Dhading.
If all test are ok we could also start to build up our healthpost by this system:
Rubble stones video in Dhading district

https://vimeo.com/142754836

If not 100% ok tested, we need to make a cage construction anyway, this in co-operation with our architect.

 

3) Pipe chimney: as told before, should be burnproof for woodfire and keep away as far as possible from wood and bamboo.
Minimum 1 meter fare around the wooden floor.

 

4) The roof: Construction of wooden or may be iron beams , coverd by iron plates with in between transparent plates in order to get light in the ceiling.
Lenth and messure of the roof should be pending the standard size of roof plates. This also for 7)

 

Question: what Is the standard size roofplates in Nepal?

 


5) Stove

 

6) Benches

 

7) Roof waiting bench patients: Extra pillars are not necessary, if well-constructed, our architect wil make clear how to do.

 

8) Toilet separate or attached as mentioned before.

 

Floors

Ground Floor of special loam, except bathroom must be waterproof with cement and tuiles.

 

 * Ceiling floor if possible cheap plywood.