Abstract:
The thesis project is a design proposal for a 650 bedded “Multi- Specialty Hospital, Pitampura, New Delhi”, India. The project is an actual real life project being developed by “UNITY GROUP & SHRIMALI SOCIETY”.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. At the same time this thesis focuses on breaking the commonly used idea of compartmentalizing a hospital building. 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. 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. To maintain a proper functionality in extreme complex buildings like hospitals where so many activities go together creating many interfaces, 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.
