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The site is located in Taoyuan County Kweishan Township, a part of the Linkou Plateau, which provides great views but normally has higher wind velocities. In consideration for the safe use of patients, all glass in the window openings of the building unitize tempered laminated glass, which can still provide shelter in the occasion of breakage and prevents from personnel and equipment damage.
The exterior wall openings use a combination of glass curtain wall, large sized fixed glass, and sliding glass doors to provide a large opening area, supplying the medical staff and patients with ample natural lighting and viewing area. Simultaneously, in consideration of energy conservation, thermal insulation, and to correspond with the color scheme of the exterior stone and tile cladding, French green miro-reflective laminated glass is used. This glass can obstruct up to 99% of ultraviolet rays and possesses good acoustical and thermal insulation properties, providing patients and medical staff with a comfortable and quiet environment, without the interior reflection drawback of normal reflective glass.
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