At a scale unheard of in their home country, American architecture firms are using natural ventilation to achieve energy savings, resilience, and patient comfort in two major health-care projects in Asia. At Singapore’s Ng Teng Fong General Hospital (NTFGH), one of this year’s AIA COTE Top Ten Award winners, more than 80 percent of bed spaces are cooled and ventilated relying on passive strategies alone. At XiangYa Hospital, a 5.6 million-square-foot medical facility in Changsha, in south central China, slated to start construction this summer, windows will be the primary source of cooling and ventilation for all patient rooms.
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