4.1
Planned around courtyards
Instead of a deep block with rooms far from a window, the clinical floors wrap around courtyards, so wards and work areas take their light and air from them.
Case study 03 / 10 · Healthcare & Medical Education
Courtyards for light, a frame of steel
Apollo Ispat Super Speciality Hospital, Rourkela
A specialist Hospital added to a working Campus, planned around courtyards so that daylight and air reach every room, and built as a steel building.
- Project
- Apollo Ispat Super Speciality Hospital
- Location
- Rourkela, Odisha
- Client
- Steel Authority of India (through NBCC)
- Our role
- Comprehensive Architectural consultancy for NBCC, for the Steel Authority of India
- Built-up area
- 40,980 m²
- Site area
- 10 acres
- Project value
- ₹294.82 crore (sanctioned)
- Beds
- 256
- Rating
- GRIHA 4-star
- Status
- Completed September 2023
01
The brief
The Apollo Ispat Post Graduate Institute and Super Speciality Hospital was initiated by the Ministry of Steel for the Steel Authority of India, to add specialist treatment to an established Hospital.
The 256-bed Hospital is planned as a heart centre, a brain centre and a kidney centre, with four modular operating theatres, a 20-bed central ICU, a 10-bed high dependency unit, a 10-bed neonatal ICU and a 10-bed dialysis unit.
02
The site
A 10-acre site within the existing Ispat General Hospital Campus at Rourkela, so the new departments and the older general Hospital share one site and one set of patients.
03
The idea
The building is planned around courtyards, so that every room receives daylight and natural ventilation.
It is built as a steel building: a composite steel and RCC structure with steel deck slabs and AAC block walls, light in weight and lower in carbon.
- 1CourtyardsDaylight and air reach every room around them.
- 2Gateway and canopyThey mark the point of arrival.
- 3A services block of its ownPlant and services kept apart from the clinical floors.
- 4Steel frameComposite steel and RCC, steel deck slabs and AAC walls; the facade shows its exposed steel members.
- 5Rooftop solarPanels on the roof reduce the demand for electricity.
- 6One CampusThe new Hospital shares its site with the existing Ispat General Hospital.
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The design
4.2
A clear arrival
A gateway and an entrance canopy mark the way in, and the services are housed in a block of their own.
4.3
A steel building
Steel-intensive construction keeps the building light and reduces its carbon footprint, and the facade shows the steel that carries it.
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Outcome
ARCH-EN DESIGN provided comprehensive Architectural consultancy for NBCC, for the Steel Authority of India, from 2018. The Hospital was dedicated to the nation on 21 March 2021, completed in September 2023, and is rated GRIHA 4-star.
- Appointed2018
- Dedicated to the nation21 March 2021
- CompletedSeptember 2023