Architecture Design
This begins with space programming in an effort to capture the scope and the scale of the
facility and finalized services mix. We try to understand the The exercise cultural ethos
and the professional practices, through interaction with the stakeholders. The purpose of
this exercise, apart from defining the functional content based on the brief referred to, is
to facilitate deliberation towards arriving at concurrence on the operational principles
governing the delivery of clinical, diagnostic and support services.
A departmental schedule giving sizes of all rooms and activity spaces is drawn, including
summary area statement. The schedule of accommodation also provides total net departmental
areas, an estimated circulation area requirement commensurate with departmental activity and
total gross target construction area. This would help arrive at the total built up area of
habitable floors and provide a basis for generating the cost estimate.
Following space programming, a complete design of the building/civil component of the Project, inclusive
of further development/detailing of the Master Plan for the whole complex, accounting for diverse
physical and logistical parameters, the designing for the main hospital building(s), internal space and
facility planning, ancillary support services building bloc(s) design, intra-site road network
designing, etc, is done. The architectural design is developed in conformity with client’s requirements,
end-user sensibilities, and efficient functionality of the hospital premises. At all times, our emphasis
is on patient friendliness, efficient space usage, cost-effectiveness, and aesthetic propriety of the
built form.
Then comes the structural design which includes the complete design of the structural framework for the
entire built component in the complex. It includes determining the appropriate framing system,
generating schemes for structural design conforming to the specific needs of the intended space, and
harmonized with the requirements of the services and other components of the project, and making
detailed construction drawings for the work to proceed on site.
