HEALTHCARE ARCHITECTURE

Abstract

A hospital is a place of healing and a place of sickness; birth and death - the cycle of life comes full circle at a hospital. All intangible and tangible human emotions are felt inside it: joy, pain, relief, anxiety, remorse, guilt, panic, grief, loss, everything. Designed as a place of healing, it serves a noble purpose yet it has to humble itself for its major stakeholder: the patient. Pakistan faces an overwhelming shortage of medical personnel, equipment and hospitals. The major cities may be saturated with physicians and health facilities but rural settlements, which house more population than urban settlements, is in a state of constant neglect for the past seventy years.