Islamic Mission Hospital, Golmunda, Jaldhaka, Nilphamari

Abstract

Bangladesh being a developing country has a lot of places to work on and goals to reach. One of these include the need of better healthcare and with a large portion of the country being on the rural side, healthcare service of those areas are not adequate. This paper entails the entire process of how the Islamic Mission Hospital in Nilphamari was designed to fit the needs of the people of the area. The process entails project rationality, fixation of design objectives, program generation, case studies, zoning of the site and its surroundings and a fundamental concept of preserving the surrounding uniqueness, natural characteristics, and serenity of the proposed site. Without doing an injustice against nature, the hospital was designed with minimal intervention to the natural environment and preserving it as much as possible. Since the project is functionally intense an equilibrium was attempted to be achieved between solving it functionally as well as enhancing the natural landscape and surroundings. Moreover keeping the characteristic of the rural setting, like spaces open to nature was brought upon in the design of the hospital so that the people could feel as if in their natural habitat, thus diminishing their fear of enclosed space and increasing the chances of better healing. To sum it up, the design of this 150 bed hospital would go to show a way to build a hospital in the rural setting to provide them with health care in a functionally solved manner while giving them a feeling of home.