IR3016 Child Centric Healing Spaces

IR3016

Child Centric Healing Spaces

Unit Assistant Yash Dodwani

Faculty of Design IR3016 Spring 2021

4th Year

Khushi Jain Karnav Mistry Sakshi Sharma

5th Year

Amishi Talati Jahanvi Panchal Viraj Panchal Vedangi Raval Aditi Shah Tanmayi Deshmukh Isha Shah Sujit Kothiwale Neha Kothiwale

The 20th and the 21st century will be marked as the period in history when the world focused on creating child friendly environments. From education to healthcare, we have been striving to build a more empathetic and inclusive society for our children. In the last decade, pediatric healthcare has made giant strides in this direction.

This unit focused on sensitizing future designers to the needs of children when they are in a hospital. While maintaining the efficiency and functionality of the facility, solutions that address the mental well-being of the children need to be devised. Access to physical features and social situations that reduce their stress and develop a sense of control over privacy and self-efficacy are critical to healing. In recent years, our approach to pediatric healthcare design has evolved to designing engaging, participatory, social and more child centric environments.

This studio aimed to resolve complex issues through a well-defined design process. The students learnt tools and methods to enquire, assimilate, define, ideate and test the key components of a design-based thinking. Healthcare design offers a unique opportunity to coalesce technology, functionality and above all empathy, to build humanitarian designs that touch lives in unique ways.

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Design UG Level-3 Fig 1 Jahanvi Panchal Axonometric Drawing Fig 2 Talati Amishi Collage Fig 3 Vedangi Raval Collage Fig 4 Panchal Viraj Render Fig 5 Tanmayi Deshmukh Axonometric Drawing Fig 6 Isha Shah Render Fig 7 Aditi Shah Plan Fig 8 Sakshi Sharma Plan Fig 9 Khushi Jain Plan Fig 10 Mistry Karnav Axonometric Drawing

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Integration of empathy into the space

A cosy quiet zone for parents or siblings

Empathy map note- Patient’s siblings and parents need an breakout space as well away from the stress.

Wall with personalised things such as photographs ,plants, books Empathy map note-Patient gets very bored and dull. Pantry Area with washbasin and storage Empathy map note- Parents need a space for heating food and storing belongings Through the visit.

Washroom placed adjacent to the patient bed Empathy map note- If the washroom is away, it becomes exhausting for the child to use.

The patient bed is placed in a an angle to the opening, to allow a controlled light. Empathy map note-The view which patient sees must be engaging.

Sofa cum bed creating with a niche forming a cosy zone with an opening cutting down harsh sunlight. Empathy map note-Parents need a space to relax and sleep while taking care of patients.

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Anjali Rathod

UR3006 Post-COVID Streets Vrsuhti Mavani, Mariana Paisana

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