No. 146 · Healthcare & Medical Education
Government Medical College, Kottayam
Kottayam, Kerala
- Location
- Kottayam, Kerala
- Client
- Department of Medical Education, Govt. of Kerala
- PSU
- HLL Infra Tech Services Ltd. (HITES)
- Built-up area
- 74,300 m²
- Site area
- 100 acres
- Project value
- ₹320 crore
- Sector
- Healthcare & Medical Education
A master plan to modernise the Government Medical College at Kottayam, Kerala, on a wooded hilltop campus of about 100 acres, with new hospital, teaching, skills and residential blocks.
About the project
The Government Medical College at Kottayam is one of the main teaching hospitals of central Kerala. Its campus of about 100 acres sits on a wooded rise, with the existing hospital and college buildings spread along a loop road. The modernisation, taken up through HLL Infra Tech Services, replans the campus in phases so that the hospital keeps running while new buildings come up around it.
A campus replanned
The master plan groups the new buildings into clusters on the hill, keeping the tree cover and the ring road, and links them to the existing hospital. It includes a new hospital block, a courtyard block for clinical and teaching departments, a Skill Development Centre, a Medical Education Unit block, and high-rise residential towers for students and staff.
Built for the Kerala climate
The blocks pair exposed brick with light plastered bands and pitched, overhanging roofs that throw off the monsoon rain and shade the walls. Deep fins and glazed bays bring daylight into the wards and teaching rooms.
Our role
Architectural and Engineering consultant to HLL Infra Tech Services: master plan and design of the new blocks for the campus modernisation
Highlights
- Phased modernisation of a working medical college and hospital
- Master plan for a campus of about 100 acres
- Hospital, teaching, Skill Development Centre and Medical Education Unit blocks
- Residential towers for students and staff
Why it matters
Opened in December 1962 as Kerala's third government medical college, it is a main referral and teaching hospital for central Kerala.
Milestones
- December 1962: College begins functioning, at first from the District Hospital, Kottayam
- 1970: College moves to its present Gandhinagar-Arpookara campus
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