Super speciality hospital, Kankarbagh, Patna

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.