Introducing healing environment in multi specialty hospital: A case of Jaya Arogya Hospital Group

Abstract

Health is something we all strive for. Spaces where we live and spend our most of the time in that space, it affects our mind, body and soul. It is proven in earlier researches that nature has capacity to heal people. A plant represent growth and make hope alive in the mind and heart of people. For a quite while the significance of health and well- being has been within the sight of parks, open spaces, house private gardens. Each of these components is essential health making components of the city, ward, building. Indians believe that the knowledge or medicinal plants is older that history itself, gifted hundreds of thousands of years ago to the original inhabitants of India by Brahma, the divine creator. thus when the Ayurveda sought to heal human suffering they were able to draw on knowledge that had already been evolving for millennia in the forests of India. Traditional healing in India greatly relied upon reconnecting man and nature. But if we see condition of outdoor spaces in most of the Indian Hospitals, a different picture is observed which is contradictory of above statement. Indian Hospitals are ill-equipped in utilising their open spaces. This thesis report summarises the concept and process of healing, significance of natural environment in healthcare facilities. Later on these theories, concepts and processes are converted into practicality in the form of design in Jaya Arogya Hospital, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh that is chosen for the study purpose.