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The document outlines design considerations for a children's hospital, including creating a home-like, playful environment to inspire confidence and hope in young patients. It discusses the architect's role in carefully planning an efficient, flexible design that provides a therapeutic, clean, safe, and sustainable environment. Key objectives are designing spaces that support the healing process and allow understanding of how architecture impacts patients' psychology and health. Sensory dimensions like light, color, and noise should be considered. Nature, social interaction, and specially designed play/activity spaces can have positive effects.

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Thesis Report23

The document outlines design considerations for a children's hospital, including creating a home-like, playful environment to inspire confidence and hope in young patients. It discusses the architect's role in carefully planning an efficient, flexible design that provides a therapeutic, clean, safe, and sustainable environment. Key objectives are designing spaces that support the healing process and allow understanding of how architecture impacts patients' psychology and health. Sensory dimensions like light, color, and noise should be considered. Nature, social interaction, and specially designed play/activity spaces can have positive effects.

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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.

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,

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.
1. Spaces can be designed in line with healing process of patients.
2. To discover various facets of architecture viz-a-viz human psyche
3. To understand relation of man and his environment
4. To study how natural elements can be a catalyst in the healing
environment
5. to develop correlation between care taker, patient, family and
architectural environment
6. to give treatment not far from hospitals but away from crowded area
neglecting pollution, traffic, congestion, noise, work pressure, so that
patient could heal mentally through surroundings along with treatment
7. research centre and training would be provided for the medical
intervention and to give learning of child Psycological factors practically
8. to give accommodation to the family as well so that interaction and
different types of activities could perform
9. to create experimental, eco-friendly, interactive and learning spaces.

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

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