Himalaya Medical College & Hospital
At ARCHX, we believe that the architecture of a medical college should foster not only education but also healing and well-being. Our design for Himalaya Medical College & Hospital integrates state-of-the-art facilities with biophilic principles, creating an environment that supports the physical, mental, and emotional needs of students, staff, and patients.
Design Philosophy: Biophilia in Healthcare Education
Biophilia—the innate human connection to nature—is at the core of our design approach. By incorporating natural elements like sunlight, greenery, and sustainable materials, we create spaces that reduce stress, enhance focus, and promote well-being. In a medical college, where the demands of learning and patient care are high, biophilic design supports both academic excellence and emotional resilience.
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Design in Details
In design, we bring characteristics of the natural world into built spaces, such as water, greenery, and natural light, or elements like wood and stone. Encouraging the use of natural systems and processes in design allows for exposure to nature, and in turn, these design approaches improve health and wellbeing. There are a number of possible benefits, including reduced heart rate variability and pulse rates, decreased blood pressure, and increased activity in our nervous systems, to name a few.
Over time, our connections to the natural world diverged in parallel with technological developments. Advances in the 19th and 20th centuries fundamentally changed how people interact with nature. Sheltered from the elements, we spent more and more time indoors. Today, the majority of people spend almost 80-90% of their time indoors, moving between their homes and workplaces. As interior designers embrace biophilia.
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Incredible Result
Establishing multi-sensory experiences, we can design interiors that resonate across ages and demographics. These rooms and spaces connects us to nature as a proven way to inspire us, boost our productivity, and create greater well-being. Beyond these benefits, by reducing stress and enhancing creativity, we can also expedite healing. In our increasingly urbanized cities, biophilia advocates a more humanistic approach to design. The result is biophilic interiors that celebrate how we live, work and learn with nature. The term translates to ‘the love of living things’ in ancient Greek (philia = the love of / inclination towards), and was used by German-born American psychoanalyst Erich Fromm in The Anatomy of Human Destru ctiveness (1973).
