Abstract:
The thesis project is a design proposal for a 300 bedded “Super Specialty Hospital, Kankarbagh
Patna”, India. The project is an actual real life project being developed by “Medanta group”.As
the project is a real life project, the thesis follows a strict methodology based on widely accepted
and commonly used design theories and methodologies in the field of healthcare architecture.
The thesis focuses on functional planning, fragmenting the building blocks, allowing nature to
penetrate in the innermost possible area of the hospital, making hospital a grand looking building
with the help of design elements and modern technology. Hence, making the whole complex a
place where environment plays a major role in healing the patient psychology and hence,
fastening the curing process. Thesis also dealing with the core services required to run the
building effectively. Keeping these above ideas in mind an extensive literature study and live
case studies have been done related to the psychology of patients, creation of healing
environment and simplifying the circulation flow. The greatest challenge while designing a super
specialty hospital mainly involves the amalgamation of needs of all in a complex environment,
yet maintaining the desired standards of operation and to maintain a proper functionality in
extreme complex buildings like hospitals proper placing of various departments have been kept
in mind. This has been done to provide the reader with a clear concise idea of how the whole
thesis was conceived from the starting to the end.
