Design Brief

In this competition, we ask you to come up with visionary concepts for an isolation ward in a quarantine facility, to help subdue the effects of the outbreak on existing infrastructure. To slow down the spread of virus, we need to carry out contact tracing and widespread testing. The lockdown issued by the government while beneficial has resulted in migration and detention of people. Hence, we need facilities with individual isolation cells to monitor suspected victims who might have been exposed to the virus.

Students must provide wards of individual isolation cells. 5-10 cells may be grouped together to form modules or kept separate according to design. Each isolation cell must not exceed 4-8 sqm and must contain a bed, table and chair.

Students must provide a circulation plan with zonings, to indicate the placement of all the areas provided in the flowchart below :

Click here to download the detailed description of all the above areas.

The proposed design must be differently-abled friendly and should be proposed on a hypothetical site of more than 750 sqm. The quarantine facility having a capacity of 40 beds (for patients/suspected victims) could be proposed on one of the following spaces:

- Airport/ Railway/ Port terminals and Parking Areas

- Open ground on city outskirts

- Stadium 

- Open areas near an existing medical facility

The proposed design can be a multi-purpose facility with the flexibility of being adaptively re-used post COVID-19. Following are some of the ways in which it could be reused:

- Additional treatment ward in hospitals  

- Shelter for homeless or displaced persons 

- Refugee Camps in Disaster Relief