• BES STRENGTH : 140

Brownfield Hospital Upgradation | Internal Planning | Bed Capacity Enhancement

Maskati Charitable Hospital, Surat is a long-established healthcare institution within the Surat Municipal Corporation’s public healthcare network. With SMIMER - Surat Municipal Institute of Medical Education & Research requiring additional space to support its clinical and teaching functions, Maskati Hospital was strategically replanned and reorganised to accommodate these requirements within the existing building framework, with minimal demolition and new construction.

AMRD Corporation’s intervention began with a detailed assessment of the hospital’s existing floor layouts, circulation, structural framework and available clinical spaces to identify areas that could be reassigned, consolidated or upgraded without major reconstruction. Rather than treating the project as a conventional expansion, the planning strategy focused on extracting additional functional capacity from the existing building by carefully redefining departmental boundaries, reorganising room layouts and adapting underutilised or less critical areas for new clinical uses.

Through this restructuring, the old hospital block was planned to accommodate approximately 140 beds. On the Ground Floor of the existing building, the internal layout was restructured to accommodate Surgical and Medical ICU. This required reworking the available floor area to create an efficient critical-care zone with appropriate bed spacing, nursing supervision, support areas and direct functional connectivity to the rest of the hospital, while working within the constraints of the existing structure.

The First Floor underwent a more extensive clinical reorganisation to accommodate the Operation Theatre Department together with additional inpatient wards. Existing spaces were redistributed to establish clearer relationships between surgery, patient movement and ward functions. Where the existing built form could not fully accommodate the required programme, a limited new construction area was introduced specifically for isolation facilities associated with the wards, allowing these critical functions to be added without significantly altering the overall building footprint.

The top floor of the newer hospital building was also restructured to provide accommodation facilities to students. The existing floor plate was reorganised to create a more suitable environment while making efficient use of the available built area and existing services.

Overall, the restructuring was driven by a minimum-intervention, maximum-utilisation approach. Existing walls, structural systems and services were retained wherever feasible, while selected spaces were repurposed through targeted internal changes. Through functional re-zoning, adaptive reuse and selective additions, the project enabled Maskati Hospital to accommodate SMIMER’s evolving clinical and teaching requirements while reducing construction impact, cost and disruption to ongoing hospital operations.