The vision for the Master plan is to provide a campus that will deliver outstanding patient-centered care. The Super Specialty Cancer Institute at Lucknow masterplan recognizes the aspirations for delivering a new tertiary care hospital, teaching and research campuses core value - the natural healing environment linked to the local community. Applying this key theme to the Site, we have distilled the Masterplan into a simple “Bazar” with key building elements at the very heart of the facility with green spaces. Conceptually, visual links drive through the Site to the East and West, connecting the buildings to the natural surrounds, while key functional buildings are linked by courtyards and ‘bridging fingers’.
Patient-Centered,
Hope-Inspiring Design for
Cancer Care
Recognising that Cancer care always revolves around
the human emotion of ‘hope’ and that it is untenable
without a holistic approach involving family,
community and nature was the foundation of this
design for a super specialty cancer care, education
and research institute located in Lucknow,
Uttarpradesh. As an institute that seeks to seamlessly
integrate education, research and treatment of various
types cancer the three main means to achieve that
end are enquiry and learning, collaboration, and care,
which the design aimed to facilitate. Assimilating the
above suggested a design strategy that would be
themed around experiences, way-finding, identity and
functionality.
The institute’s 100 acre site forms a part of a larger mixed
use master plan, having favorable road access from three
straight edged sides. Entry/ exit points have been gained
from two opposite boundaries and have been connected
with a straight internal main road that forms an orienting
axis with hospital and institute buildings arranged on one
side of it and residential facilities on the other. The campus
houses a large range of departments and facilities catering
to cancer diagnostics, treatment and care arranged in
thoughtfully integrated layout that fosters efficiency as well
as holistic wellness. The design highlights include best
practice initiatives by best international benchmarks as
well as a long list of innovative firsts that would serve as
exemplars for such future facilities.
Healing Bazaar Street & Discovery Hub – Design
Innovations for Vibrancy
The planning of the hospital building likens a bazaar street – a healing street-like connector along
which the patients, patients’ relatives and care-givers can collaborate and facilitate addressing
their respective health and wellness issues. This street also opens out on one side to the ‘healing
garden’ – a large beautifully landscaped ventilating courtyard which offers solace and healing
through the touch of nature. The key buildings of the campus are further linked across the
intermittent at upper levels by bridging fingers that symbolically reach out caringly at numerous
points of the healthcare campus.
The three main elements of the
campus i.e. patients/visitors, hospital
and research-and-academics
blocks are sought to be linked by a
‘Navrachana Kendra’ or ‘Discovery
Hub’ block placed at the entrance of
the built scape. Housing all common
facilities ranging from auditorium to
cafeteria and cycle stand as well as
conference/ seminar areas, this hub
functions as the epicenter for
innovative exchanges that would
perpetuate a thrust towards more
effective cancer care.
Collaborative Planning for
Committed Approach to
Sustainability
In order to be able to receive and incorporate future
technologies and newer models of care whenever they are
available on the global scene, the facility was designed to be
future-proofed and change ready. The strategic goals of the
institution within their clinical and financial framework were
integrated with the design’s technology program in order to
optimize patient care. Thus, the medical equipment planning
was charted by collaborating structural, technological,
electrical and mechanical aspects of design and in alignment
with the client’s vision as well as evolving approaches to
patient care.
This design recognizes that true sustainability is
achieved by pushing further than mere
compliance to IGBC/ LEED ratings to strive for future
social, environmental and economic equity.
Therefore, it incorporates numerous concepts
holistically to the planning & design process, such
as campus atmosphere, space utilization, reduced
vehicle dependence, green mobility, sustained
maintenance of infrastructure, etc. in addition to
the standard measures of renewable energy,
passive air-conditioning and ventilation, solar
optimization, water harvesting/ recycling,
sustainable waste disposal and others.
"Crafting Holistic Regional Development Based on the Awareness of an Interconnected
Ecosystem."