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 INTRODUCTION
A hostel is a form of low-cost, short
term shared sociable lodging where
guests can rent a bed, usually a bunk
bed in a dormitory, with shared use
of a lounge and sometimes a kitchen.
Rooms can be mixed or single-sex
and have private or shared
bathrooms.
Private rooms may also be available,
but the property must offer
dormitories to be considered a
hostel.
Washing machines and clothes dryers
are often provided for an additional
fee. Some offer yoga studios,
cinemas, rooftop clubs, and surf
camps.
EVOLUTION OF
HOSTELS
In August 1909, Richard Schirrmann,
a teacher in Germany, first published his
idea of inexpensive accommodation for
youth travel after leading a school camping
trip that was derailed by a thunderstorm.
On June 1, 1912, in Altena Castle,
Schirrmann opened the first hostel. The
original hostel rooms are now a museum.
In 1919, he founded the German Youth
Hostel Association.
By 1932, Germany had more than 2,000
hostels recording more than 4.5 million
overnights annually. The International
Youth Hostel Federation (now Hosteling
International) was founded in October
1932.
In 1961, rise of Urban Hostels-the trend of
setting up nationally owned facilities
started with the opening of the first urban
hostel.
In 2008, The network reached over 1.5
billion overnights.
Richard Schirrmann
EVOLUTION OF
HOSTELS IN INIDA
The Youth Hostel Movement had found
its way into India before the partition
of the country in 1947. The idea was
introduced in early forties by the Boy
Scouts and Girls Guides of India,
Punjab Circle and the first Youth
Hostel was formally opened at Tara
Devi near Shimla on 9 June 1945
by H E Sir Bertrand Glancy, Chief
Scout and Governor of the Punjab.
In 1977, after YHA of India was
established and its first hostel was
opened at Chanakya Puri in Delhi.
in 2000’s, significant modernisation
of hostels had occurred.

 CLASSIFICATION OF
OBJECTIVES
HOSTELS
To create a familiar environment for
1. Cheap Hostels students & young working professional’s
2. Homely and Cozy Hostels by providing proper facilities & also a
3. Boutique Hostels

structure with good architectural senses.

4. Party Hostels To identify the challenges in venturing
5. Traditional Youth Hostels a modern drome's with all required
6. Activity Hostels facilities for student , a viable business
7. 5 Star Hostels model and analyze the marketing

strategies adopted for long term
business In India.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN REGULAR AND
ARCHITECTURE HOSTEL To investigate the scope modern
amenities in student housing
To analyze the importance of
Recreational Areas in sports in Student
hostel.
To create relaxed and easy atmosphere
through design, architecture , expression
to make the complex retreat from city
life.
Integration of built form with landscape.

 BASIC REQUIREMENTS OF HOSTEL
Sleeping Area
•Good quality beds and mattresses.
•Well ventilated rooms, well-lit and well-
spaced.
•A wardrobe in which each student can
store their clothes to avoid them living out
of their suitcases.
Living and Study Area
•Conducive Study area: equivalent to the
number of residents in the hostel.
•General order and cleanliness: shoes in
their place, chairs back in place etc.
•Recreation area within the hostel.
•Organized activities that encourage hostel
residents to interact.
•A means of resolving grievances: list of
do’s and don’ts, values upheld in the hostel.
•Gender exclusive hostels
Washroom and Hygiene
•Ratio of bathrooms/ toilets Max of 1 to 5
students
•Regular fumigation. To avoid parasites and
other insects
•Cleanliness/ orderliness.
•Constant water supply/ water storage
facilities.
•Hot water supply.
Dining Area
•Balanced diet and a variety in the student’s
meals.
•Monday to Friday: breakfast and dinner to
be offered. Saturday, Sunday & Public
holidays: 3 meals should be offered
•A dining area: so that students are
discouraged from eating in their rooms.
•Storage facilities for the food. Fridge and
pantry.
•Clean drinking water.
Emergency & General amenities
•First aid kit. The hostel manager ought to
have a means of rushing students to hospital
or clinic in case they fall ill at night
•Fire Detection (Areas to be covered-
kitchens, risk rooms, staircase enclosures,
basement/cellar, each final exit door, etc.)
•Fire extinguisher
•Emergency contact of each of the students’
next of kin
•Wi-Fi
•Laundry area
•Lockers
Emergency Lighting
SPATIAL ARRANGEMENT
OF HOSTEL
Bedrooms in hostels consist of 4-6 (maximum 8)
rooms in groups with a leader room (one bed, one
folding bed as day couch), and in guest houses 2-4
bedrooms, leader/teacher accommodation 1-2
rooms with work area, family rooms with 4-6 beds.
Boys and girls are separated, mostly allocated
rooms starting from the head of a corridor with
several dividing doors, which can be locked if
required (for flexibility). Showers and washbasins
connected to the rooms, separate WC (accessible
for disabled people), lockable luggage store.
Cleaning rooms on each floor and shoe
store/cleaning room.
It has kitchen serving individual portions or group
meals, serving trolleys, no self-service counter,
utility room, staff lounge.
It has multiple dining rooms, multi-purpose areas
with individual corners, cafeteria, lecture room,
entrance hall/reception and office for
warden.
It has outdoor camping area; parking for
buses, cars and 2 wheelers; play area and
garden.

LIGHTING
Natural Lighting
•All habitable rooms shall be provided
cold running water,
with an area of clear glazing situated
in either a window and/or door,
equivalent in total to at least 1/10th of
the floor area of the room.
•All kitchens, bathrooms and water
closet compartments shall comply with
above.
•Where this is not practicable,
adequate artificial lighting shall be
provided to the satisfaction of Hostel.
Artificial Lighting
•All habitable rooms, kitchens,
bathrooms, water closet
compartments, staircases, landings and
passages shall be adequately lighted by
electricity, none of which will be
provided via a time switch and shall be
always available.
•There shall be sufficient switches to
operate the artificial lighting on each
landing, corridor or passage and each
switch should allow all corridors,
passages and stairways to be
illuminated at the same time.
SERVICES PROVIDED
VENTILATION
•All habitable rooms, kitchens,
bathrooms and water closet
compartments shall have a minimum
floor to ceiling height of 2.3m.
•All habitable rooms shall be
ventilated directly to the external air
by a window, the openable area of
which shall be equivalent to at least
1/20th of the floor area of the
room.
•All bathrooms and water closet
compartments shall have mechanical
ventilation provided a minimum of
three air changes. Such an
installation shall be fitted with an
overrun device for a minimum of 20
minutes and be connected to a
lighting circuit of the room.
•Permanent means of ventilation in
the form of a flue, airbrick, hit and
miss ventilator or louvered window
shall be provided in all kitchens,
bathrooms, water closet
compartments and any other rooms
containing either cooking and/or
washing facilities
WATER SUPPLY
•Each bedroom shall be
provided with a supply of cold
running water suitable for
drinking purposes. The tap shall
be suitably marked “Drinking
Water”.
•The water pressure to all
fitments shall comply with the
minimum requirements always
laid down by the relevant water
authority.
•All water supplies shall be
suitably protected from frost
damage.
DRAINAGE AND SANITARY
CONVINIENCES
•All above and below ground
drainage shall comply with the
requirements of the Building
Regulations currently in force.
•Separate male and female
accommodation shall be
required to the satisfaction of
Hostel.
PERSONAL WASHING
FACILITIES
•Each bedroom shall be provided
with a wash hand basin together
with its own continuous supplies
of hot and
and of minimum dimension
560mm x 430mm.
•A readily accessible bathroom or
a shower room shall be provided
on every floor where bedroom
accommodation is located. The
bath/shower shall be sited in a
proper room and shall be
provided in the following ratios
for each occupied floor:
1-5 persons 1 bathroom or
shower room
6-10 persons 2 bathrooms or
shower rooms
11-15 persons 3 bathrooms or
shower rooms
•The hot and cold-water supplies
shall be exclusive (unless the
rental or charge for
accommodation includes the
supply of hot water), and
available always.
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BEDROOM
1. A minimum floor space per bed (or bunk) of 4 square meters (44
square feet) to be provided. This area will be calculated based on the
maximum dimensions of the room divided by the number of bed bases in
the room.

Bed bases will be totaled as follows:

Bunk bed = 1 Single bed = 1 Double bed = 2
2. A minimum ceiling height of 2 meters (6’7”). Sloping eaves or
combed ceilings are acceptable, providing these do not restrict
reasonable free movement through the major part of the room
3. All bedrooms to have an external opening window to provide natural
light and ventilation. All windows to have opaque curtains or blinds for Anthropometric data of
privacy and light exclusion. Bunk Bed Dimensions of Bunk Bed
4. Bedrooms to be adequately lit for the safety and well being of

guests.
5. Beds / bed spaces must be at least 1.9m (6’3”) x 0.76m (2’6”)
(including alpine platforms).
6. The vertical distance between upper and lower beds in any bunk
must not be less than 0.75m (30”).
7. Bedrooms – where a separate living room is provided. A single
person room should be of minimum 6.5m² and increasing to 10m² for 2
persons.
8. Bedrooms – without any separate living room provided. A single
person room should be of minimum 8.5m² and increasing to 12m² for 2 Twin Bedroom layout
persons.
9. Communal living rooms should be of a minimum size 10m² which may

Dorm Layout
serve up to a maximum of 8 persons.

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KITCHEN
1. The kitchen to be designated a non-smoking area with
appropriate signage.
2. A smoke alarm or heat detector to be installed.

3. A fire extinguisher suitable for kitchen fires and a fire blanket

to be provided.
4. Kitchen to be properly equipped with an adequate number of
utensils (pots, pans, food preparation knives etc.) which enables,
as a minimum, 20% of the maximum number of guests to make
food at the same time.
5. A minimum of 4 cooking rings to be provided. Where the total
number of bed spaces exceeds 32 an additional cooking ring is
to be provided for every further 8 bed spaces. i.e., 32 beds: 4 Kitchen layout
cooking rings; 40 beds: 5 cooking rings; 48 beds: 6 cooking

rings; 56 beds: 7 cooking rings etc.

6. An oven or microwave and a grill to be provided. Each of these
to be provided at a minimum ratio of 1 per 50 guests
accommodated.
7. Facilities for boiling water to be provided e.g., kettle or
geyser.
8. Dry food storage facilities to be provided, appropriate for the
number of guests accommodated, e.g., open shelving or
cupboards.
Anthropometric data of
9. Kitchen area to have effective ventilation.
10. A covered waste disposal bin and liners to be provided. Kitchen Dimensions of Kitchen

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BATHROOM, WC AND SHOWER
FACILITIES
1. Shower, washbasins and WCs to bed space ratios must

meet or exceed minimum levels:

1 Star 1:10; 2 Stars: 1:10; 3 Stars: 1:6; 4 Stars: 1:6
2.There must be privacy between sexes for
washing/showers and toilet facilities and wherever
possible between members of the same sex and clearly
designated.
3. All bath, shower and WC rooms to be adequately
ventilated
4.Hand drying facilities and soap required in all public
WC facilities.
5. All WCs to be lidded with a toilet roll holder, toilet
paper and sanitary disposal bin (where appropriate)
provided
6. Bath/Shower facilities to have clothes hooks and
soap trays within each cubicle.
7. A shelf and electric razor point (or adapter available) Anthropometric data
with a mirror and towel rail close by to be provided. of Toilet
Anthropometric data
of Shower Area


FACILITIES FOR DISABLED STUDENTS
Generally, purpose built adapted and adaptable facilities for
disabled residents should be provided at an overall ratio of
1:20 in any development. It is unnecessary, and undesirable,
to group adapted rooms in a single block or all adapted
rooms on the ground floor.
Where adapted bedrooms are provided suitable en-suite
washing, showering and toilet facilities shall also be
provided.
Access to and full use of kitchen facilities and social areas
shall also be provided.
All rooms within a residential development shall be accessible
by a wheelchair user. i.e., not just the flat containing an
adapted room.
Due to design constraints and viability, townhouse
developments may not always be fully accessible on all floors.
However, all ground floor accommodation, including WC and
kitchen/dining facilities shall be designed to meet the needs
of disabled occupiers and visitors.
BUILDING BYE-LAWS
PLOT SIZE-5035 sq.m(1.24 acres) with a 12M
access road
Plot size being more than 2500 sq.m, the following
are the setbacks and height stipulations
Parking provision-Stilt +2 or more cellar floors
(height of stilt floor not less than 2.5m)
Height Permissible up to 18mMinimum front setback
be left for a 12m access road 3mMinimum setback to
be left on the other sides are 7m
Height of the stilt floor should not be less than 2.5m
In the stilt floor parking, a watchman room and 2
toilets with max.
Built up area of 25sq.m may be allowed.
For parking services in basements and upper floors,
at least two ramps of minimum 3.6m width or one
ramp of minimum 5.4m width and adequate slope 1 in
8 shall be provided.
Minimum width of a driveway shall be 4.5mVisitor’s
parking shall be provided with minimum 10% of the
parking area.
Thank you
SOURCES
Wikipedia
Neufert Architect's Data
TSS (Interior Design)
National Building Code
hostelgeeks.com
Normal standards for Youth Hostel.