Case Study

KARUNASHRAYA - BANGALORE HOSPICE TRUST
                   
    Karunasharya meaning ‘Abode of Compassion’ a non-profitable organization.This organization offer patients the flexibility of alternating between the hospice care and their home care.

                 It was inspected as a registered charitable trust by the India  Cancer Society to provide free palliative are for advanced stage cancer patients who are beyond cure .

Architect : Sanjay Mohe
Location : Marathahalli , Bangalore
Plot Area : 8200 sqm
Built Up Area : 3400 sqm
Climate : Hot and Humid/29-13 and 28%
Topography : Flat Land
F.A.R : 0.416
Nearby Building : Ashitha  Hospital ,Shankar Eye Hospital

Site Plan & Organization :

•   Clustered organization relies on physical proximity to relate its spaces to one  another.
•  Often consists of repetitive , cellular spaces having similar functions & share a common   visual trait such as a shape or orientation.            

Study of Open Spaces :

•   Open Spaces are merged with whole composition.
•   Activities surrounding focused with the open space in between with a water body and    courtyards.
•  Open Spaces are providing an experience of pleasant stay, mental & 
physical relief to the user & also a place for gathering.    

 ZONING AND LAND USE PATTERN
SPATIAL AND BUILT FORM ANALYSIS
ACTIVITY AND USER ANALYSIS



• Use of  courtyard  in design to aid the ventilation of the ventilation of the internal spaces.To create meeting places for interaction.
• The design makes extensive use of landscape elements such as fountain , pond , rockeries &statutory greenery & pavers to  the facility is  shrouded with heavily shaded trees to the right of entrance.







• Karunashraya as 5 wards & each ward as 12 beds.
• Each ward as one common washroom.                   
• Each ward is arranged in such a way that it gets the view of water body.   
• There were 55 beds provided earlier , but recently due to the expansion here are 75 beds.
• Prayer room is placed in the center so that both entry & exit of patient can be passed through it.



• The entrance courtyard helps in providing funnel effect.
•   And the courtyards acts as buffering as well as cooling agent.
• The backyard acts as community &interactive space.It also acts as a buffering agent .
  

The central pool acts as cooling agent as it carries cool air from SW to NE.

Synopsis

What is Hospice?
                 Hospice is special  care for the terminally ill, especially those who have a life expectancy of about 6 months is highly required. It is a facility that houses well trained staff as interdisciplinary health care team of doctors, nurses , home health , therapist and trained volunteers to offer support based on their particular areas of expertise to terminally ill.
                         
            The Hospice Care movement , founded just over 40 years ago, recognizes this process in three stages :
                            DYING - DEATH - BEREAVEMENT

           Each stage is equally important part of an individual's experience, requiring a focus on personal counselling and palliative medicine with the intent of achieving a desired quality of life at the end of life...

                               It aims at adding life to days.Not days to life...

Need of Hospice:
                         Today , one third of lifetime health care costs are spent in the last 12 months of life. 80% of all deaths occur in hospital or nursing home facilities which together, account for only 20% of possible options for care.At the same time, social program costs are increasingly being downloaded to municipalities .Faced with this , the social and economic health and well being of communities worldwide, depends on our ability to cultivate a new relationship with death as a natural part of living fully, and from this understanding evolve new " models and practices for compassionate end of life care.
     A place to provide the special care needed to help the mortally ill  'Live until they Die.'

Objective :

•      It looks to create the necessary architectural comforts required to accommodate the needs of terminally ill patients.
• It aims to remote an environment where the  patients feel at home and as normal as possible .
• To encourage communication and interaction between the patients by creating lots of green space sand proper planning .
• To provide a psychological environment for the patients and their families to come to terms with their predicament.
• It should have a character of its own, but not so much that a patient will feel conspicuous as he goes in or out.
• It will be speaking some grace in living, reassure any sense of insecurity without domination and makes a positive appeal to our aesthetic feeling.

                          "In short,the building should invite patients."

How can a building help do this ?

                 We need to consider five ways :

• By creating a community of patients,family and staff.
• By creating transitions.
• By encouraging mobility.
• By illuminating the passage of time.
• By confronting the meaning of death. 

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