CENTRE OF CASE STUDY: QUIET PLACE,

HOLISTIC HEALING AUROVILLE

Criteria for Case Study:
1. Location of the Project.
2. Facilities provided by the Project.
3. Sustainability of the project.
4. After effect of the Project on area.
5. Effective design of transition spaces connecting outdoor with indoor.

Quiet Healing Centre, Auroville, India Architect’s Ideology: He was strongly

influenced by the growing environmental
Quiet is a wellness centre located on banks
awareness, baubiological* and sensory
of Bay of Bengal. It occupies over 7 acrea
issues plus physiological concerns in
beachfront compound. It offers a wide
architecture. These included health hazards
variety f natural healing therapies. It is a
through industrial building materials,
place to relax, rejuvenate, recharge and
electro-smog, the blind use of industrial
heal. The healing work at Quiet is based on
synthetic building products monotonously
the understanding that aperson is first and
applied, and the waste and misuse of natural
foremost a spiritual being seeking to
resources.
express its truth through the instrumentality
of mental, vital and physical nature.

Site Context: The site selected for this project is apt as it connects the place well to
both nearest community, city and on other side the nature. One side the structure is
surrounded by tall palm trees and bay of Bengal. The other side leads to the
Pondicherry market and city further connecting to heart of Auroville. Thus the
requirement of silent environment for the therapies is fulfilled as well they are well
connected to community.
The built up and open space zoning explains that the structure is well planned
with green open spaces in between thus maintaining the connection of nature
from exterior to interior. The project is not yet built completely as planned, the
extension is aimed to be built in coming near future. The zoning of areas as
per the activities is well planned, separating the private and public zones.

The circulation of the site is well managed and separated. The frequently coming
vehicular does not disturb the regular actvities on site.There is only one node
creating a traffic node, when there is service vehicle movement.
 1- Security Cabin 2- Residential Block
3- Reception 4- Healing Spheres
5-Hall of Harmony 6- Extended Residential Block 8-
7-Kitchen and Laundry Dining

Its location on the beachfront makes it highly susceptible to cyclones. The

structures are well spaced out as to minimize the effect of any damage caused
due to cyclones. The climate conditions are both constraints and opportunities
for development.

DESIGN AND STRUCTURE DETAILS

(Diagram : Chajja) (Diagram : Gutter detail)

 The sloping chajja’s act as dnp moulds as the architect did not wish to have
additional projection on facade. The gutter detail is exaggerated and forms as part
of the detail.The water from the gutters falls fdirectly to the landscaped area
below.

(Diagram 6: Plinth beam) (Diagram 6: Structural members)

Architect’s truthful use of material called for exaggeration of details to depict the virtue of
the material. The plinth beam in residential block, projects diagonally from the sloping
wall, holding the first course of bricks in place. The detail is enhanced by the projection of
plinth beam, which protrudes from coping. The beams continue over the vaulted passage-
ways and also project out of the external walls. The beams have punctures to facilitate easy
maneuvering by tying a rope through it. This helps in placement of precast beams.

The Quiet Healing Centre stands as an outstanding example of fusion art, craftsmanship
and structural excellency. His attention to details, from the construction of a beam to
designing a door handle is impeccable and this breathes life to his structure.

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS

Therapy Room Section

The hot and humid climate on site compelled the architect to use materials that would resist
dampness.
Thus, porous materials such as first class bricks, lime mortar and timber have been used.
They keep the interiors dry and cooler compared to outside. The domes are cladded with
China mosaic which reflects maximum part of the heat incident on it, assisting in keeping
the healing rooms cool throughout the day.

(Diagram : Solar Panels) (Diagram : Green cover)

It incorporates minimal use of artificial electromagnetic fields. These panels have

been oriented in North-South direction so that the harsh incident sunlight is
concentrated on the solar panels. The green cover acts as buffer from the noise around
the site, creating peaceful environment for healing.

(Diagram: Hall of Harmony)

(Diagram : Opening in the buttress with precast concrete
rings used generally for septic tank.)
(Diagram : Courtyards joining the structure internally.)

(Diagram : Transitional space: connecting inside to outside.)

(Diagram :
Appropriate
amount of natural
lighting inside the
structure.)
Inference:

 The facilities provided by the centre are one of the best in India.
 The site for the centre is a transitional zone between busy city zone and the calm
peaceful beach (Nature).
 The use of local materials and local artisans has made it economically and
environmentally sustainable.
 The planning and designing of the center is so done that the nature has been
merged with the indoors providing small pockets of open and semi-open spaces,
thus helping in the treatment procedures too.
 The small details have helped the project be aesthetically better.
CASE STUDY
Santa fe de Bogotá Foundation
Expansion of the University Hospital Santa Fe de Bogotá
Foundation | Equipo de Mazzanti Architects
Area: 32000 m²
Year: 2016
Location: Bogota, Colombia

The project is located in a place in the city where two of the main avenues: 9th and 7th avenue
almost connect. Their proposal looks forward to be a diagonal connector and work as a catalyzer
for new flows, activities and human relationships.
Open spaces, even if they are separated from the existing hospital, they will look connected at the
pedestrian level by the main lobby of the building, as well as generating new flows and activities,
turning the building into an urban bridge.

The actual hospital is the result of an addition of architectonical pieces that answer to
programmatic needs, technological and scientific advances. In consequence, this has created a
maze of buildings and flows.
Their proposal tries to retake the initial idea of a complex. The idea of the connector building
recovers the proposal of the axe between the existing and the new buildings. It wants to take aside
the idea of joining buildings and punctual expansions and understand the hospital as a totality.
This will generate necessary connections for the correct operation of the different levels, avoiding
the uncontrolled growth of small pieces without relation. They propose a building with a core that
will reorganize the actual vertical and horizontal flows as well as working as a linking element
between the new and the existent.
Therefore we want to rescue the intention of the patio and natural lighting in each of the
spaces, an element of vital meaning in the healing process. With this unifying strategy, our
proposal is not only an expansion it turns to be organizing and bounding element.

The new building more than reorganizing the existent hospital, it states clear segregation
of the future spaces. A building only for inpatients and the others for ICU and
intermediate care; they differ in form and size because of their special functional
requirements. Joined in their form only in the base by the main lobby, both buildings work
as one when they connected by bridges, stairs, and ramps. The bridges allow an easy
connection, direct and adaptable to all differentiated flows.
Patient-oriented: focus on the needs and worries of the patients presented by their families
and friends.
• Lowering environmental conditions that generate stress. Maintain the patient’s dignity and
privacy.
• Comfortable and positive ambiances under the hospitality principles.
• Add life exaltation elements.
• Allow quick changes in technology and treatment protocols. Divide patients, staff and
logistics areas, in terms of flows and organization.
• Staffs time efficiency with the patients as well as the patient’s time in the hospital
 Safety: precise control when we have really delimited the private areas from the public ones.
Well-being: management of the best interior environmental quality will guarantee patients
wellness and health for this the hospital took care of: contamination control, protection and
control, thermic control, visual and smell comfort, perception comfort, light comfort.

El Equipo Mazzanti’s proposal was that “space is a stimulus that affects human behavior and
that architecture is an opportunity to foster new relationships.” 
The new building offers citizens a route connecting two important avenues along a path that
ends in a public plaza with restaurants and the possibility of art installations and musical
performances. Naturally this openness extends to patients and their care. An internal tropical
garden on the ninth floor gives patients a space full of light, plants, and birds that takes them
out of the hospital context and allows them to relate to the world outside.
AXONOMETRIC VIEW requires adequate ambiances to do their work
with the best attitude. A third group is a
population that goes to the building for
different reasons. Their conceptual proposal is
to do a high, singular and emblematic
building. Understand the foundation need as
an architectonical idea and not a conventional
hospital.

It is the patient who gives sense to the

hospital and he has to be in the first place
always. In the second place, it is the staff that
Façade-

Through its materiality and configuration, the façade leaves its condition of only working
as skin and turns to be an element of meanings and functions; it turns to be an element of
identity for the foundation, configuring an integral element of the whole campus. We will
use a brick façade that will allow the proper integration of the actual language of the
hospital, raising the idea of sobriety in the architectonical design.

On the other hand, the facades innovation in which the brick would not be used as a
structural element but as an aesthetical one.
The Mudejar configuration will generate particular ambiances inside of the building. The
disposition of the bricks will let natural light come in different levels and intensities. This
façade allows the use of the brick wall as a membrane that helps to have a semi-private
relation with the exterior. The relation with the outside increases when having windows
from bottom to top, the highs of the windows change because the person who spends
more time in the room is laid down the patient and needs to have a view from the bed.
The patients have the possibility to look to the city, the mountains, and the sky. On the
back of the brick skin, there is a glazed skin to prevent pollution, contamination, noise and
whether isolation for a really temperature and sound control.
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