INDRAPRASTHAAPOLLO
HOSPITAL, NEW DELHI
ANTONY T RAPHEL
PROJECT DETAILS
LOCATION : Sarita Vihar, New Delhi
ARCHITECT: Hafeez Contractor
CLIENT: Apollo Group of Hospitals
BUILT UP AREA: 675000 sq. ft
AREA OF SITE: 20 acres or 80960 sqm.
• Largest corporate hospital in India
• Fourth largest in the world
• 652 beds including 138 ICU beds
• 14 Operation Theatres
• Built up area of 675,000 sq.ft.
• This modern edifice aims to break down the complexity
normally inherent in such large institutional spaces.
• A different concept has been dwelt upon for the different
functional areas, such as the out-patient department, the
medical facilities and the in-patient wards.
SITEPLAN
VARIOUS CLINICS OF THE
HOSPITAL
50 branches of specialty and super specialty in the fieldsof
Medicine and Surgery.
Major division:
• I.P.D
• O.P.D
• Diagnosis
MEDICALSERVICES
•Outpatient department
•Emergency
•Clinical laboratories
•General medicine
•Community medicine
•General surgery
•Psychiatry
•Tuberculosis and respiratory diseases
•Physiotherapy
TOTAL BEDS AND STAFF
•Total Bed Capacity - 650
•Total Beds Complement - 550
•Total No. Of doctors - 700
•Nurses - 500
•Other Staff - 2000
•Approx no. Of patients visiting hospital in a day - 1700
WARDS
•The floors above first floor, consists of wards, doctors, nurses room and other ancillaryunits.
•Wards types:
•4- bedded
•2- bedded
•Single bedded
•With provision of VIPsuites
•Provided around the core of tower, which serves for nurse station.
•Seperate entry for emergency patients.
•Blood bank is adjoining the emergency ward also a separate triage and OTis provided for causalities.
•Central circulation core formed by three passengers cum stretcher lifts and two staircases is for public and
continues till
•Till last floor is the main mode of vertical circulation and opens to the main foyer on ground floor.
• Situated on Oelhi-Mathura Highway
• Faces SWof the road 7 minutes drive from AshramChowk
• In proximity to the Okhla and Nizamuddin railway stations, so easily approachable by trains.
DEPARTMENTS OF HOSPITAL •Orthopaedics • Eye care
•General OPD services •Paediatrics
•Emergency department • Physiotherapy
•General medicine •Psychiatry
•General surgery • Community medicine
•Dentistry •Tuberculosis and • Forensic medicine
•ENT
respiratory diseases
•Obstetrics and Gynaecology
For the in-patient wards, several criteria had to be satisfied : provision of cross-ventilation in
every room; every bed to have a view of the outside; a minimum walking distance from the
nurses station to the rooms and also allowing a sense of visual check; flexibility for the future
so that any floor could be converted from wards to rooms and vice-versa : as the floors
progress, the configuration for the hierarchy of the rooms to get established.
The in-patient wards are grouped reassuringly around a central nurse's station and are placed above
the clinical zone in the podium. Throughout the complex the aim has been to de-institutionalize the
spaces by the use of bold, vibrant colours and patterns , thereby, creating a cheerful atmosphere and
a feeling of home away from home.
The concept for the OPD generated from the need to accommodate the people who would
wait. while the departments have definite spaces for waiting, the general waiting area has
an atrium with a directional visual communication.
The less complex out-patient department is separated by a pedestrian atrium space from the
complex acute care, diagnostic and in-patient areas. The large atrium serves to enliven the
environment and provide a street-like atmosphere from within which the various facilitiesare
accessed.
For the medical facilities, the key-word was to have flexibility. Sandwiched
between the in-patient wards and the clinical zone is an interstitial floor housing
the engineering plants & services which support the complex medical facilities
and the clinical zone below. The clinical zone consisting of the diagnostic and the
'acute-care' areas were placed with the operation theaters and housed within
deep-spanned, podium floor, sitting atop a double basement housing the complex
support zone consisting of the variousservices.
PARKING
Parking basically of three types:
•Ambulance
•Visitor
•Staff
Ambulance parking is near the
emergency
Staff parking provided at the
basement.
Entry of the hospital is through 3 gates namely Gate 1, Gate 2, and Gate 3. Gate
1 is the main entry leading to OPOand parking area whereas gate 2 is exit gate
opening to the red lights. Gate 3 is service entry serving as doctors and staff
entry leading to the main building block and finally to the service yard from the
ramp to the base.
POSITIVE
*Grand atrium which acts as waiting hall gives street like appearance, hence a source of
attraction.
*Overall circulation is reduced with the help ofatrium.
*Proper care of the cross ventilation and outward view has been taken in designing of the wards
*Proper services are laid out
*Wards are designed in the towers to minimize services
NEGATIVE
*Gives hotel like appearance.
*Tower like structure not recommended for area lying in earthquakezone 4.
