DESIGN BRIEF

Aim:
To design a child-friendly hospital means inspiring confidence, encouraging
playfulness and offering hope.
To design a structure which is not a box, instead a place which is a home to
children and a kindergarten with a peaceful atmosphere and encourage
children to stay and heal.

Inspiration:
A designer’s influence can empower the impact of a healthy environment with
focus on personalized service and attention, promoting familiarity and well-
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Role of an Architect:
A successful hospital architecture design & planning requires careful planning.
An ideal hospital design integrates the functional requirements with the
human needs of its varied uses.
Here are some points that are very important for hospital architecture design
& planning:
Cost-Effectiveness and Efficiency

An efficient design layout promotes staff efficiency by minimising the travel

distance between frequently used spaces. It could allow the visual supervision
of patients, providing an efficient logistics system for food supplies. So, the
efficient use of multi-purpose spaces and merge spaces is an excellent way to
efficiency with cost-effectiveness.

Flexibility and Expandability

With time, the needs and modes of medical treatment are changing. Thus,
before designing the hospital, one should follow the modular concepts of
space planning and layout, like using generic room sizes and plans as much as
possible.

Therapeutic Environment
The architect of the hospital should be convenient for the patients and visitors
and provide an unthreatening comfortable and stress-free environment. This
can be achieved by using cheerful textures and varied colours in patient’
rooms. Also, allowing natural light in their rooms gives them a refreshing
environment that helps them recover fast.

Cleanliness and Sanitation

Keeping cleanliness and sanitation should be the chief priorities of hospitals.

Therefore, the design of the hospital must be easy to maintain and clean.
Therefore, the design should be facilitated by appropriate and durable finishes
for each functional space.

Safety and Security

The hospitals have several security concerns like the safety of patients and
staff, hospital assets like including drugs, property and vulnerability to
terrorism because of high visibility. Thus, safety and security must be built by
keeping such things in mind.

Sustainability

 Hospitals occupy large spaces that have significant effects on the economy
and environment of the surrounding community. Also, they need high energy
and water and produce a sizeable amount of waste. Because of this, a
sustainable design must be used or consider when building and designing the
hospitals.

Objectives:
Children need special care and treatment in terms of healthcare.
Children are not like adults. They need for a specialized hospital for children is
imperative.
The children’s hospital must have a different approach to hospital architecture
than any normal hospital. In this case, it’s quite important to connect visual
perception to the complex functionalities of the hospital program.

Scope/Need:
1. a wide perspective of patient’s behaviour, psychology, thoughts on
spaces could be understand
2. up to what extent architectural spaces impact on human psych could be
analysed
3. how social interaction plays vital role in changing patients health could
be understand
4. to understand how traditional way of healing and location for healing
affect patient’s health
5. researcher could work in a better space along with patients and their
family and could understand symptoms in a better way.

Influencing factors:
 sense of control
 social support
 positive distractions
 play
 education
 art nature

Sensorial dimensions:
Senses – light, colour, noise

Available Case studies:

1. rainbow children’s hospital – BANJARA HILLS, MADHAPUR
2. apollo health city – HITEC CITY
3. continental hospitals – GACHIBOWLI
4. Medicover woman and child hospital
Specially designed spaces for children:
 Open spaces
 Natural light covered with trees – close to nature
 Large windows
 Coloured skylights – playful atmosphere
 Interiors – relaxing colours – which calm and heal
 Materials – natural materials
 Spaces – self-sufficient, agricultural systems
 Curved walls at edges to create openness
 Nature in harmony
 Games
 Library
 Drawing space
 Entertainment space
 Interaction spaces
 Sit out spaces
 Motivating
 Less scary
 Relative, functional, accessible, spacial
 Amusement areas
 Recreational areas
 Light and temperature control
 Flexibility and expandability
 Cleanliness and sanitation
 Sustainable design
 Emotional and physical pain responsive design
 Spacious and empathetic interiors
 Adequate privacy which support conscious effort
 Internal gardens, views, water bodies
 Areas – yoga, meditation, library – provide peace
 Accommodation for families – for immediate interaction
 Stepped building – gives different views and privacy and openness