Designing Healthcare Spaces for Healing and Efficiency

Healthcare Projects

We design healthcare spaces that prioritize patient comfort, functionality, and efficiency. Our solutions focus on creating environments that support healing, enhance workflows for medical staff, and incorporate the latest technologies, all while ensuring a welcoming and calming atmosphere for patients and their families.

COMPOSITE REGIONAL CENTRE, SRINAGAR, 2003

Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, New Delhi, realised that existing institutions deal with specific areas of disability. The existing infrastructure and facilities were insufficient to provide services to all states, including the underdeveloped regions. The Ministry decided to establish six Composite Regional Centres (CRC) for persons with disabilities to cope with the requirements. This would provide comprehensive services for multiple disabilities in one place.

Composite Regional Centre has been built on 5 acres of a flat and low-laying site within the premises of Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Bemina, Srinagar, in Kashmir. The government decided to organize a limited design competition to select an architectural firm. Six firms were shortlisted and asked to submit their entries. The jury comprising the Chairman of the Rehabilitation Council of India, Chief Architect, Central Public Works Department and Joint Secretary to the Ministry of Social Justice, decided to award this work to Saakaar Foundation, Chandigarh. ‘Swastika’ symbolizes sun, prosperity and good luck. This particular plan resembling a swastika configuration was chosen with the aim that this building would bring a ray of hope to its users

MANODISHA HOSPITAL, BARNALA, 2006

Manodisha, the psychiatric hospital, has been set up to ‘provide direction to disturbed minds’. It is a double-storeyed building located on Nanaksar Road in Barnala, a new district in Punjab. The project included a hospital with an indoor facility for 25 patients and a doctor’s residence. The owner had another unique requirement. Routine nursing homes are kept on the ground floor, and the doctor’s residences are on the first floor. In this case, they wanted both areas on the ground floor only, even if both are duplexes in design.

The client wanted a compact building without any undue wastage of space. Architect’s brief aimed at a simple building with a subdued elegance where one can rest and lay back without feeling awed by the grandiosity of the structure. The design was developed in such a manner that the building does not look like a museum to showcase things; rather, an airy, easy to-maintain home. The building has two separate entries for the hospital and residence. Both function independently, yet they give the appearance of a single building from the outside.

MOTHER AND CHILDCARE HOSPITAL, BATHINDA, 2012

Due to the rising migratory population, the government felt a need to expand its health infrastructure by constructing a new Mother and Childcare Hospital in the existing Civil Hospital Complex at Bathinda.

It is a 50-bedded hospital established to make motherhood a memorable experience. A three-story structure, on a compact site makes multiple connections to existing buildings and links numerous departments within while maximising opportunities for flexibility, daylight, patient safety, and staff productivity.

While designing, care has been taken to save all existing trees at the site. A circulation connection between the old block and the new buildings is designed for efficient functioning. Through careful planning and design, daylight is brought deep into the core of the building, and views of the outdoors and places of respite are readily available for patients, visitors, and staff.

RED CROSS REGIONAL CENTRE, CHANDIGARH, 2013

The building is located in the existing Red Cross campus of two acre in Sector 16 of Chandigarh; it lies adjacent to the Rose Garden, the largest garden of its kind in Asia. Existing zoning was prepared nearly six decades back and did not match Le Corbusier’s vision of the street picture of Chandigarh’s Madhya Marg. When initial sketches were made and discussed with the Department of Urban Planning, it was felt that old zoning needs to be revised to maintain the uniformity of character of buildings along the central avenue.

Final plans were prepared to suit the new zoning plan. The new building is oriented in such a way that all significant openings are kept on the north and south sides. Windows are either recessed or protected with balconies or projections while offering views of the Rose Garden and the surrounding greenery.

MOTHER AND CHILDCARE HOSPITAL, SAS NAGAR, 2015

Situated in the existing premises of the Civil Hospital in SAS Nagar, the new three-storeyed, 50 bedded hospital block was designed to facilitate low-cost health facilities. An attempt was made to match the new hospital with the existing buildings to maintain the character of the campus. The new hospital serves 300 inpatients at a time.

The numerous departments of the hospital are properly integrated so that the different types of traffic traversing the building are separated as much as possible. Vertical circulation is primarily provided for hospital patients, serving all floors. Horizontal circulation carefully segregated patients and medical professionals.

Only one entrance is provided for the general public, visitors and staff to ensure control. The basic module of the plan is the composition of three squares. A large porch provides direct access to these areas. A central cut-out is provided for natural light and ventilation in the corridors and waiting areas.