Healthcare Architects, the Indian Institutes of Technology and Cannabis Bob Dylan sang about it: “I would not be so alone Everybody must get stoned…” The Beatles sang about it: “I went upstairs and had a smoke…somebody spoke and I went into a dream…” Times have changed since then, for me. The IIT’s in the ‘70’s […]
Alternative Building Forms & Massing: Pro’s & Con’s – Horizontal or Vertical In the First World countries of the West, the trend in the recent past has been to steadily move away from hospitals organized primarily around vertical circulation systems. This trend has been most marked in the UK, where the Nightingale-inspired horizontal pavilion hospital […]
Schizophrenia, Alcoholism, and Buddhism-A Potent Cocktail Introduction A man who knows he is flawed has taken the first step towards wholeness. Forty Years ago, a young, struggling twenty-something designer working in the office of an internationally renowned architect in Mumbai, India, a recent graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, abusing both […]
Hospital Design Process-Initial Stages-Brief Overview Following is a brief description of the initial stages of the hospital design process. • Facility Mix IThe facility mix is a list of the various components of the proposed hospital and is derived from the Detailed Project Report. It will give the number and types of inpatient rooms and […]
The following is an interview of Will Steffen, emeritus professor at the Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University. It is taken from a magazine titled “Down To Earth” an excellent publication of the Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi, India. “Tipping points will be crossed faster” WILL STEFFEN, emeritus professor at […]
Biophilia: An Introduction By Husaini Sadikot—Guest Blogger There are many reasons why there is and will be in the future a reduction of greenery such as plants and vegetation. One reason is, of course, the desire to make quick money and the profit motive like the cutting down of trees for wood for uses […]
PROPOSAL: Asian Heart Institute & Research Center (AHIRC): Post Occupation Evaluation Study Architectural Design, Facilities Operations & User Satisfaction EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The intention of this Post Occupation Evaluation (POE) Study is threefold, as follows: To determine the ‘fit’ between architectural design intention and the resultant patterns of human activity as influenced by the physical […]
The Planning Grid: Creating a Framework for Design A Planning Grid is an overlay of lines usually represented by a ‘long dash-dot-long dash-dot’ (they need not necessarily be horizontal and vertical, but often are) and is a design tool used by us architects to create some kind of order on what is otherwise a […]
Lean Design in Healthcare / Healthcare Facility Planning Husaini Sadikot Lean production can be described as a group of highly efficient manufacturing techniques developed (mainly by large Japanese companies like Toyota) in the 1980s and early 1990s. Lean production was seen as the third step in a historical progression, which took industry from the age […]
Introduction Many people – caregivers, architectural and design professionals, and patients, regard intensive care (critical care) units as the heart of the hospital. Here a seriously ill patient can expect the maximum of care: the very best the hospital has to offer in terms of personnel and technology. Intensive Care Units (ICUs) are specialty nursing […]
