URBAN - LANDSCAPE
ARCHITECTURE
INITIATIVES
ART
Praditmanutham Hospital
2015
Architecture Studio, Chulalongkorn University
Hospitals' paradigm has shifted from being a gloomy place for the sick, into a friendly environment for the healthies.
'Healing Environment' becomes a requiring concept of the hospital trend. Interpreting the ideology, it should be a place that empowers the will to live of every individual in the hospital: the patience, the family, as well as the staffs.
The central common space of the proposal presents a gree out door circle. The first three floors, being the Out Patient Departments, are connected with the circular ramp around the common garden. The space provides outdoor relaxing atmosphere from the treatment, where people can get fresh air and green scenry to lift stressful situations. The circular ramp makes it possible for everyone to take a walk and interact with others.
On higher floors, every room are made sure to gain good view; not only to see the greenery, but also other individuals using up the opened common space. Visibility of seeing others doing lively activities could restore the hope to fight the disease in each other.