Indraprastha Apollo Hospital

PROJECT DETAILS   
Area, 6,75,000 sq. ft.  
Completed, 1996 
Largest corporate hospital in India
•Fourth largest in the world
–652 beds including 138 ICU
beds
–14 Operation Theatres
–Built up area of 675,000 sq. ft.
This modern edifice aims to break
down the complexity normally
inherent in such large institutional
spaces. 
 
A different concept has been dwelt
upon for the different functional
areas, such as the out-patient
department, the medical facilities and
the in-patient wards.
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For the medical facilities, the key-

word was to have flexibility.
The concept for the OPD   The less complex out-patient Sandwiched between the in-patient
generated from the need department is separated by a wards and the clinical zone is an
to accommodate the pedestrian atrium space from interstitial floor housing the
people who would wait. the complex acute care, engineering plants & services which
while the departments diagnostic and in-patient support the complex medical
have definite spaces for areas. The large atrium serves facilities and the clinical zone
waiting, the general to enliven the environment and below. The clinical zone consisting
waiting area has an atrium provide a street-like of the diagnostic and the 'acute-care'
with a directional visual atmosphere from within which areas were placed with the operation
communication.  the various facilities are theaters and housed within deep-
accessed  spanned, podium floor, sitting atop a
  double basement housing the
complex support zone consisting of
the various services. 
 
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For the in-patient wards, several criteria had to be The in-patient wards are grouped
satisfied : provision of cross-ventilation in every room; reassuringly around a central nurse's
every bed to have a view of the outside; a minimum station and are placed above the clinical
walking distance from the nurses station to the rooms zone in the podium. Throughout the
and also allowing a sense of visual check; flexibility complex the aim has been to de-
for the future so that any floor could be converted from institutionalize the spaces by the use of
wards to rooms and vice-versa : as the floors bold, vibrant colours and patterns , thereby,
progress, the configuration for the hierarchy of the creating a cheerful atmosphere and a feeling
rooms to get established.  of home away from home.